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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

You wanna hear about voter suppression? I ordered my mail in ballots ages ago, it is now Oct 31st and I have yet to receive them. They need to arrive by tomorrow if I want to have any chance of getting them returned before election day. I have zero doubts that Texas is going to fuck me...which is hilarious because technically I am still a registered Republican.

UPDATE: They just updated the status to say that they shipped the ballots yesterday. Fucking cutting it close. I'm going to have to "next day" air those suckers.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You have to order them? WTF. I live in Oregon and they're just sent to us around election month.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

I did say it was Texas.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Call your local election board and inquire.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

How disappointing. I remember reading about something similar in 2016 (though I think that was less about legal framework and more of a boots-on-the-ground attempt to discourage voters).

Oddly, not so much in 2020 - perhaps with COVID restrictions, it was impractical to use the same tried-and-true techniques to suppression voters?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

There was definitely physical intimidation at play in 2020.

But it was also following the summer of 2020 where the chuds realized they were scared little chickenshits. I still have a lot of family in Philly and got to watch some great videos of the locals standing up and scaring off the chuds.

And the other aspect is vote by mail and early voting. The demographics who were queuing on election day tended to be the ones they didn't want to suppress.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Ah, this makes sense. Good to hear that folks were successfully pushing back and getting the vote out! I'll keep my fingers crossed for a repeat of the successes this time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Likely they just expected such efforts to be indistinguishable from pandemic requirements, so they chose not to bring it up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Hmm, good point, even if they did mention it, it might have just gotten buried under all the pandemic related news ...

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 weeks ago

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