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OneWinkataTime Apr 23, 2023

Republicans passed a bill in Texas to end countywide-voting, which allows voters to choose polling locations that are convenient or have short lines, and a bill allowing the state to take over county election administration on flimsy pretexts.

If signed into law, the fix is in. Republicans will close locations in opposition areas to engineer impossibly long lines for democrats, but keep voting fast and easy for Republicans.

#RepublicanExtremism #TxLege #Texas

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/texas-senate-passes-bill-end-countywide-voting-election-day-rcna80829

Texas Senate passes bill to end countywide voting on Election Day

The Texas Senate approved a bill to ban countywide voting on Election Day, part of a pattern of legislation aimed at tightening election laws in conservative states.

NBC News

🍸Pooka🥕Boo🍸Apr 22, 2023

I don't believe in violence, but if they did this to me, i would arm myself and my friends and show the cowardly reTHUGliCONs running Texassistan how to do a Jan6.

Agora Apr 22, 2023

@alexwild #Republicans are assholes🤬🤬🤬

Darwin Woodka Apr 22, 2023

@Agora @alexwild no, they're fascists

Agora Apr 22, 2023

@darwinwoodka @alexwild ok! #Republicans are fascistic assholes🤬🤬🤬

DamnKimberlee Apr 22, 2023

@alexwild this is linked to the methods used in Russia. Putin should get the credit for what Republicans are doing in Texas. Just because they call it American doesn’t make it AMERICA!

Darwin Woodka Apr 22, 2023

@damnkimberlee @alexwild actually Orban, they have him speak at their conventions even

DamnKimberlee Apr 22, 2023

@darwinwoodka @damnkimberlee @alexwild and Orban works for Putin.

Derek Kompare Apr 22, 2023

@alexwild The Texas GOP is hell-bent on ending democracy here. They hate that Dallas, Bexar, El Paso, Harris, Travis, and even (increasingly) Tarrant counties are simultaneously the economic engines of the state and the places least likely to vote GOP. So they distort state law to make it harder for us urban voters to vote.

ex or current IDF unwelcome Apr 22, 2023

@alexwild In UK almost every village has a polling station at election, one is in a phone box

Darwin Woodka Apr 22, 2023

@alexwild wow if only we had a voting rights act and an unrigged court system...

bouriquet Apr 22, 2023

@alexwild How do we achieve “rapid unscheduled disassembly” of the Republican Party?

Dwight Silverman Apr 22, 2023

@alexwild Correction: The bill has not been passed yet. The Senate approved it, still not out of committee in the House.

Jesse's Kitten Apr 22, 2023

@alexwild I hate to burst y'all's bubble but Dems have been known to do the same kinda crap. Except these days, politicians want to make it easier for everyone to vote except those of us who are blind. We can do everything online except vote, and I promise you, if Dems wanted to, or cared enough, they'd make it happen. The fact they're putting more emphasis on illegal immigrants' "rights" than those of American citizens tells you all you need to know.

Ariaflame Apr 23, 2023

@summersun704 @alexwild The fact you put rights in quotes there tells me all I need to know about you.

OpenDNA⚙️Apr 23, 2023

@summersun704 @alexwild Are you claiming that Democrats who haven't figured out how to secure online voting are just as bad as Republicans who are closing polling places to suppress rivals?

"Illegal immigrants' <quote>right<quote>"? Bro, your boys just spent four years literally violating the fucking Geneva Conventions to persecute refugees for fun. Think maybe you might want to check how the fash treat disabled? You were on the hit list.

Jesse's Kitten Apr 23, 2023

@opendna @alexwild I'm claiming that they should have been able to figure it out by now. I mean, online banking is secure, for goodness sake. You can pay bills and even order groceries online these days. Hell, you can even work from home more now than ever using the internet, conveniently, thanks to covid-19. Why is it that, with all the advances in technology, online voting seems to be the one holdout? 🤔

OpenDNA⚙️Apr 23, 2023

@summersun704 @alexwild Because authenticating the voter while guaranteeing anonymity of the ballot while providing an audit tail, with an uninsurable failure state, is orders of magnitude more difficult than securing user-bound transactions when failure is just a predictable amount of lost money.

We have one of the nation's experts on election security on Mastodon now. Follow along and you'll learn why it's a hard problem.

Jesse's Kitten Apr 23, 2023

@opendna @alexwild And who would that be? @TRodick93, any idea?

OpenDNA⚙️Apr 24, 2023

@summersun704 @alexwild Matt Blaze. You're going to want to read his Wikipedia page.

Cynthia Morse Linton Apr 22, 2023

@alexwild If you are in Texas and you are concerned about your rights or the safety of your family, GTFO. There is NOTHING so special about Texas that you and your family should put up with this crap. IT WILL NOT CHANGE. IT WAS THE SAME UNDER THE DEMS. I know, I’m one of those stupid multi-generational Texas families. Fortunately Mama married a yankee and it changed us all. <G>

sandywb14 Apr 23, 2023

@alexwild ☹️

toxtethogrady Apr 23, 2023

@alexwild I think they can still be hauled up on violations of Article 14 of the Constitution. Perhaps the dissident counties can challenge it. In a court in the Ninth Circuit...

OpenDNA⚙️Apr 23, 2023

@toxtethogrady @alexwild It would go before the 5th Circuit.

toxtethogrady Apr 23, 2023

@opendna @alexwild There's a trick to venue-shopping that Trump never fully mastered. If a voter moves to Texas from Washington State, re-registers in Texas but still pays taxes in Washington State, they might be able to sue for having their rights infringed. In the Ninth Circuit, where they still pay taxes...

OpenDNA⚙️Apr 23, 2023

@toxtethogrady @alexwild I'm pretty sure people have been prosecuted for claiming dual residency.

Grandpa Don Apr 23, 2023

@alexwild and John Roberts will click his heels in glee.

Reay Jespersen Apr 23, 2023

@alexwild What never ceases to amaze me is how Republicans can at once sincerely be all Rah Rah The U.S. Is The Bastion Of Democracy, yet then the next moment do shit like this that is directly the opposite of being in a democracy.

Both can’t be true at the same time, you big dummies. Either let everyone vote fairly and accept the results as a democracy or skew the playing field to help your team to win. Make a choice of those two and own it, but you can’t have it both ways.

Potung Thul Apr 23, 2023

@alexwild
Can't someone say it's unconstitutional? And here I thought the ban on passing out water bottles to people in line was bad. Who has the authority to run in election abuse like this? I mean, if Congress passes a bill saying everyone in Congress can stay in power forever with no more elections from now on, is there a higher authority that can deny Congress the ability to abuse their power?
I feel really helpless.

C0ppertop Apr 24, 2023

@alexwild I’m so glad I don’t live in Texas. Now I understand how women in Afghanistan must has felt, just before their government fell.