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With Bill Signing, Texans Will No Longer Need To Worry About Voting

 
 
 
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Gov. Abbott has signed the Texas legislation that finally will protect elected officials from having to deal with higher voter turnout. Of the improvements to protect the GOP:

  • No 24-hr voting. Allowing people to vote after hours just makes it easier to vote.
  • Bans drive-thru voting. Drive-thru voting was highly controversial as it provided people an isolated method of voting during a global pandemic. With this change, people won't have to worry about choosing whether to vote safely or to wait in line with people that refuse to wear masks and could get them sick. They won't have the option.
  • Vote by mail made easier to fail. A person, if by act of god, allowed them to be legally eligible to vote by mail, will require indicating a driver's license or last four of SS# on both their application for a ballot and on the envelope for the ballot when mailing it in. That second requirement will make it much easier to spoil a ballot, because anyone who was able to fake the first data, could easily do it a second time.
  • The County Election officials will have the wonderful opportunity of mailing out ballot applications to people who request them. So instead of a generic, everyone gets one, the County Election officials get to waste more time in sorting through who does and doesn't get a ballot form. The elderly and disabled love surfing the net to find information for applying for mail-in ballot forms.
  • Poll watchers get more powers, such as the ability to go wherever they want, except in a voting booth.
  • Need to assist a voter, you need to fill out forms too! Careful, spoiling that form might fuck up the vote.

Thankfully, with the passage of this legislation, the voter fraud which is endemic in Texas, as seen by the GOP always winning, will finally end.
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
  • Poll watchers get more powers, such as the ability to go wherever they want, except in a voting booth.
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Which seems strange because the most likely place a voter will do the wrong thing is in the voting booth. Wouldn’t the Republicans want their poll watchers to make sure all goes right?
 
Shadowy Man said:
Jimmy Higgins said:
  • Poll watchers get more powers, such as the ability to go wherever they want, except in a voting booth.
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Which seems strange because the most likely place a voter will do the wrong thing is in the voting booth. Wouldn’t the Republicans want their poll watchers to make sure all goes right?
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Right? Next they will just have the poll watcher go ahead and vote for you.
 
And this doesn't provide anyone any protection for puns.

Voter: Hey man, you one of them poll watchers I've been hearing about?
Poll Watcher: Yes, yes I am.
Voter: *pulls down pants, exposes erect penis*
Poll Watcher: Puns are illegal in here!
Voter: But I've got this poll I want you to watch. Yeah, it skews a little to the left, but it is a poll none the less.
Poll Watcher: Someone arrest that guy!
Voter: Oh, you are a poll watcher, but you only want to watch polls that you agree with?
*voter dragged out of the building*
 
Texas is not alone: Texas’s New Law Is The Climax Of A Record-Shattering Year For Voting Restrictions | FiveThirtyEight

"Based on data from the Brennan Center for Justice and the Voting Rights Lab as well as our own research, we now count 52 new voting restrictions that have been enacted this year in 21 different states. And 41 of the 52 were sponsored primarily or entirely by Republicans."

Covering AZ, IA, AL, MT, TX, NH, LA, ID, UT, OH, NY, ND, OK, NV

NY and NV have expanded voting access in recent years, though they implemented some restrictions: NY "became the rare blue state to restrict voting access when it passed a law that allows for fewer in-person polling places." and about NV, "First, as the flip side of the state’s switch to predominantly mail voting, one law allowed for in-person polling places to be consolidated. Second, as part of an effort to finish vote-counting sooner, mail ballots will have a bit less leeway to arrive late. Ballots must now arrive at election offices by the fourth day after the election, rather than the seventh day, in order to count."

About AZ:
The state also has two new laws that appear to target Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs: one that prohibits election officials from unilaterally changing election deadlines, and another that gives the state attorney general (who is a Republican) sole authority over election litigation — but only until January 2023 (when Hobbs’s term ends).
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I don't understand why the OP is news. Texans haven't been worried about voting for at least a couple of decades if the quality of their statewide elected officials is any indication.
 
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