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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTexas Officials Have Already Rigged The 2020 Election. Super Tuesday Is Proof.
On Super Tuesday, long lines at a number of Texas polling stations cast a pall over the Democratic primary, sowing confusion and anger on an otherwise clarifying day for the party.
Texas Democrats chose to award a plurality of their convention delegates to former Vice President Joe Biden. But people were forced to wait hours to vote on Tuesday in part because for several years, the state has systematically closed polling places in communities with large and growing Black and Latino populations. And that casts doubt on whether Democrats actually have a chance to turn the state blue in 2020, regardless of whom they nominate.
Many of the polling sites with long waits on Tuesday were in Harris County, which includes Houston, the states largest city. Harris County is 40% Latino and 19% Black.
A 2019 report from the Leadership Conference Education Fund (LCEF), a civil rights organization, found that Texas election officials rapidly eliminated polling places in Black and Latino communities after the Supreme Court overturned a key provision of the Voting Rights Act in 2013. The law had previously required a number of states with histories of racist voting practices, like Texas, to seek federal approval before making changes to their election rules. According to the LCEF report, Harris County closed 52 polling places from 2012 to 2018, more than all but three other counties nationwide did in the same period.
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/texas-super-tuesday-rigged-election-231049446.html
msongs
(67,462 posts)Yonnie3
(17,500 posts)See the post here: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213045401
msongs
(67,462 posts)msongs
(67,462 posts)Yonnie3
(17,500 posts)I think that in this primary many had not decided until the last few days. I read somewhere that it might have caused California voters to go to the polls in greater numbers rather than mail it in.
There were too many good choices, a problem I am not upset about.
leftstreet
(36,117 posts)And since then no one has tried to do anything
Sad
All this talk about 'russian meddling' but the article right there shows actual voter suppression in TX
edhopper
(33,645 posts)You think the GOP Congress would renew the Voting Rights Act?
Thank Justice Robert's for this Bullshit.
leftstreet
(36,117 posts)No problem making people aware of 'Russian meddling'
Maybe the same aggressive exposure
edhopper
(33,645 posts)The Democratic Party must put all it's efforts into making sure people can vote this year.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)TwilightZone
(25,505 posts)We didn't start *that* early!
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)TwilightZone
(25,505 posts)Yep, just as safe as any other time. The process is exactly the same.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)MagickMuffin
(15,963 posts)Previously the only way to have a paper ballot was voting on election day. I have always voted on election day because of that fact.
TwilightZone
(25,505 posts)The bill to require a paper trail died in the legislature in 2019. Jurisdictions either have it or they don't - there's no statutory requirement for either early or same-day voting.
MagickMuffin
(15,963 posts)Early voting did not allow for paper ballots, hence no paper trail.
Now the machines have a blank paper (ballot) and once you've voted the machine will print it out before sending it thru the e-Scan.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)DFW
(54,448 posts)Whether or not the ballots are counted or not when they get there, I cant know.
Stalin's quote rings in my ears every day.