Or attempting to federalize elections so that states lose control of their elections like the donkeys have been trying to do since they found out during COVID how easy it is to "manipulate" an election if you have mass mail in voting and use voter rolls that have never been cleaned up because "racism"?
Or attempting to federalize elections so that states lose control of their elections like the donkeys have been trying to do since they found out during COVID how easy it is to "manipulate" an election if you have mass mail in voting and use voter rolls that have never been cleaned up because "racism"?
Quote: The Republican-controlled Senate passed the bill Tuesday and sent it to the state House. If it is enacted, it would allow the secretary of state to toss out election results in the state's largest county and call a new vote if there is "good cause" to believe that at least 2% of polling places ran out of usable ballots during voting hours.
The bill would apply only to counties with populations greater than 2.7 million, effectively singling out Harris County, which is home to Houston and has by far the largest population in the state, at nearly 5 million. In recent decades, Harris County has become more Democratic. /End Quote
The answer seems simple. Make sure you have enough ballots. *shrug*
The NBC article isn't fact now? You misrepresented the Texas law and you accuse me of partisanship.
It seems a simple thing for a county to have enough ballots, and I doubt that Houston is the only city in Texas turning "blue."
It is very easy to cheat in urban areas, and even a little cheating in an urban area by sheer numbers can disenfranchise large numbers of rural voters. Do their voices not count?
Also, Republicans tend to be in person, election day voters, so if Houston is "running out" of ballots, one could construe it as a deliberate attempt to disenfranchise Republican voters. I'm guessing that's what the legislature thought. Much like the whole "oops the voting machines don't work" trick in Maircopa in 2022, this was a deliberate attempt to sabotage Republican chances. It's a valid conclusion as these things have a tendency of only going one way.
As for what happens? I don't know. What happens when you call the integrity of any election into question, either by throwing out all the votes or making the election so chaotic and so untrustworthy (2020, fighting ID requirements for voting or cleaning up voter rolls because somehow you think black people are incapable of following directions or having IDs, which suggests a strong bit of racism on your part) that large numbers of people start to believe that elections are no longer a method to voice their displeasure or to create change and no longer a true measure of what the citizenry thinks? I think I'd worry more about that then getting my tighty whities in wad over a very narrow law in Texas that seems quite easy to comply with.
Or attempting to federalize elections so that states lose control of their elections like the donkeys have been trying to do since they found out during COVID how easy it is to "manipulate" an election if you have mass mail in voting and use voter rolls that have never been cleaned up because "racism"?
And by the way, even by the standards of NBC, you're misrepresenting the Texas law (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/texas-senate-passes-bill-allowing-secretary-state-overturn-elections-h-rcna82631).
Quote: The Republican-controlled Senate passed the bill Tuesday and sent it to the state House. If it is enacted, it would allow the secretary of state to toss out election results in the state's largest county and call a new vote if there is "good cause" to believe that at least 2% of polling places ran out of usable ballots during voting hours.
The bill would apply only to counties with populations greater than 2.7 million, effectively singling out Harris County, which is home to Houston and has by far the largest population in the state, at nearly 5 million. In recent decades, Harris County has become more Democratic. /End Quote
The answer seems simple. Make sure you have enough ballots. *shrug*
The NBC article isn't fact now? You misrepresented the Texas law and you accuse me of partisanship.
It seems a simple thing for a county to have enough ballots, and I doubt that Houston is the only city in Texas turning "blue."
It is very easy to cheat in urban areas, and even a little cheating in an urban area by sheer numbers can disenfranchise large numbers of rural voters. Do their voices not count?
Also, Republicans tend to be in person, election day voters, so if Houston is "running out" of ballots, one could construe it as a deliberate attempt to disenfranchise Republican voters. I'm guessing that's what the legislature thought. Much like the whole "oops the voting machines don't work" trick in Maircopa in 2022, this was a deliberate attempt to sabotage Republican chances. It's a valid conclusion as these things have a tendency of only going one way.
As for what happens? I don't know. What happens when you call the integrity of any election into question, either by throwing out all the votes or making the election so chaotic and so untrustworthy (2020, fighting ID requirements for voting or cleaning up voter rolls because somehow you think black people are incapable of following directions or having IDs, which suggests a strong bit of racism on your part) that large numbers of people start to believe that elections are no longer a method to voice their displeasure or to create change and no longer a true measure of what the citizenry thinks? I think I'd worry more about that then getting my tighty whities in wad over a very narrow law in Texas that seems quite easy to comply with.