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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTexas Democrats plan to create a voter registration army - via Zoom
(Guardian UK) Texas Democrats plan to use Zoom to create an army of voter registration volunteers, a novel approach to work around the states severe restrictions on voter registration during the Covid-19 pandemic. The effort comes as voter registration efforts, both in Texas and around the US have effectively stalled just months before the presidential election.
Texas makes it extremely difficult to conduct voter registration drives, even outside of the pandemic. The state requires anyone who wants to do so to become a volunteer deputy registrar, a process that requires going to a county-run training. Only Texas residents who are eligible to vote in the state can get the certification. Texas has 254 counties, but someone can only legally register voters in the county in which they are deputized and their certification expires at the end of every even-numbered year.
Some states place no restrictions on voter registration drives at all, while others have more modest ones in place like requiring groups to register with the state before they begin their drive. Civil rights groups have long called the Texas requirement a form of voter suppression.
Texas has some of the strictest voter registration laws in the country, said Beth Stevens, voting rights legal director at the Texas Civil Rights Project. In Texas, volunteer deputy registrars can be criminally prosecuted for what most of us would consider administrative errors while theyre registering people. ...............(more)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/03/texas-voter-registration-zoom-army-volunteers
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Texas Democrats plan to create a voter registration army - via Zoom (Original Post)
marmar
Jun 2020
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(296,771 posts)1. Cheers to that!
TexasTowelie
(111,894 posts)2. Great news since about a week ago a GOP voter registration organization
fell apart and disbanded.
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/05/29/texas-republican-voter-registration-group-folds-coronavirus/
marmar
(77,049 posts)4. Excellent news.
liskddksil
(2,753 posts)3. Beto O'Rourke's group, Powered By People,
has been doing virtual voter registration events, including one this Monday:
https://act.betoorourke.com/event/voter-registration/34372?source=map&akid=
DAMANgoldberg
(1,278 posts)5. May want to rethink details...
Unless you are a paying customer, you don't get end to end encryption, which IMHO is vital to avoid harassment. One would think these organizers would be paying customers, but that's not necessarily a given.
https://www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/zoom-wont-add-encryption-to-free-calls-so-it-can-work-with-law-enforcement