If you live in Texas, make sure to register to vote! The deadline is coming up in a few days on the 7th. Note that for Texas you must register either in person or by mail, you cannot register online unlike most states
Find information on how to register to vote anywhere https://vote.gov/
Ken Paxton will personally close all polling stations if more than 20 people show up to vote
Gonna repeat what I said in a different comment:
Encourage people to try to vote early everywhere. Texas has early in person voting from Oct 21 – Nov 1
If you vote early, you’ll have time to come back again in case there’s some last minute changes to the polling places open or some other problem. Plus you also don’t then have to worry about something like being sick on election day
These are all excellent reasons. If I may add one.
I want to fuck Donald day one. So bad. Fuck him. My rage seethes waiting to be released into my ballot.
But otherwise spot on!
Ummmm.
In 2020, 11 million people voted.
Texas is going blue. Vote!
how many were registered though?
16.1mil
so at the same ratio you’re looking at about 12.4m voters so far.
A ~1.2 million increase in turnout could be significant enough to change the president and or senate race
Keep in mind trump only won texas by ~600 thousand votes in 2020
And Cruz won by only ~200 thousand votes in 2018
And Cruz literally abandoned them to freeze.
Shit even AOC didn’t do that, and she is in New York. lmao
The difference is that AOC is a human being and not a blobfish who watched someone make fun of his wife
Another million might’ve made us blue already. Trump had the smallest GOP margin of victory in Texas in decades! Texas picked Carter, LBJ, and JFK for President! If Harris wins Texas then there’s basically no way Trump can sue his way to victory.
This would be the required level of over achievement to fuck over the Republicans. It may even be the parties first sign of death, if they lose Texas they will either need to reform or die.
Fuck, I hope so - but I’m not optimistic. When Obama won in 2008 along with the House and a super majority in the Senate, I thought “finally, the death of the Republican party. Surely they’ll be forced to move to the left to have any chance of winning another election.”
Instead they doubled down, created the TEA Party, and eventually got is to where we are today.
I have never understood why you need to register ahead of time to vote in US. It seems like an unnecessary blocker. In Denmark you just show up on the day, state your SSN, show ID and get a ballot.
I have never understood why you need to register ahead of time to vote in US. It seems like an unnecessary blocker.
No, you absolutely do understand perfectly.
You need to do it because it’s an unnecessary blocker. That’s the point. Poor people disproportionately struggle to jump through the hurdles in place for voting, and Poor people disproportionately vote D. R loves to make voting harder under the auspices of “fraud prevention”.
Yes, it’s utterly stupid. One reason I can point to is that the US never really had a national ID system. The social security number is a hack to get something along the lines of an ID, but it’s not reliable enough to make it viable for elections.
That’s because a national ID requirement is illegal.
I can’t find the law because I now suck at searching and searching has gotten worse.
Social security number is a national id isn’t it?
Technically, the SSN is not and was never supposed to be used for identification.
We don’t have national ID or election systems. So with early voting it would be legitimately possible to register and vote multiple times in multiple places without the deadline.
Why would your SSN not suffice?
The SSN isn’t an identification. In fact, it specifically says on the back of mine that it is not to be used for identification.
It was intended intended to do one thing only: track lifetime earnings to determine retirement benefits. The thing is since there isn’t a national ID everyone is required to get, businesses started using it to track people.
