Your vote is not just counted, but even meaningful. Shenaningans in Texas try to affect the outcome by playing with things to control the odds and making it more difficult for “the wrong people” to vote. It’s really an entirely different scale.
Texas Conservatives are manipulating the vote with “legal” actions and can only affect percentages. A likely result is very different than a predetermined result. A “legal” manipulation is subject to at least some checks and balances and can be changed, which is very different from something that can just be dictated by those in power
do you know anyone who’d choose joe biden? like honestly, if there was a better option?
do you know anyohe who’d choose Donald trump, other than brainwashed fanatical cultists who literally worship him?
over 60% of Americans, and even a majority of republicans, want, according to polls: single payer or otherwise socialized healthcare-no more insurance, federally legal cannabis, abortion access. I suspect the numbers are similar for: tax the rich, net neutrality (once explained), do something about climate change, stop all the bridges collapsing, gimme public transit(maybe), and ‘don’t give the military obscenely expensive shit they’ve literally said they can’t use’, maybe also ‘stop cops killing randos in their homes while they sleep what the fuck’.
weird how none of that is happening and we have the precise opposite being done on most of that.
its not the same, you need to pretend more, but for me, sitting here? its not different enough that I can really throw stones.
Texas Conservatives are manipulating the vote with “legal” actions and can only affect percentages.
It goes beyond that.
PoC districts often get voting machines that don’t work. Urban districts will have large pools of ballots that go uncounted because of deliberate delays in the vote count (similar to what Republicans managed in 2000 with the Brooks Brothers Riot). Judges remove candidates from the ballot for arbitrary reasons (Tom DeLay would routinely run uncontested because his opponents’ petitions to fill would get “lost” or “misfiled’” by the country clerk).
This is only legal in so far as local allied politicians allow it to be.
Your vote is not just counted, but even meaningful. Shenaningans in Texas try to affect the outcome by playing with things to control the odds and making it more difficult for “the wrong people” to vote. It’s really an entirely different scale.
Texas Conservatives are manipulating the vote with “legal” actions and can only affect percentages. A likely result is very different than a predetermined result. A “legal” manipulation is subject to at least some checks and balances and can be changed, which is very different from something that can just be dictated by those in power
do you know anyone who’d choose joe biden? like honestly, if there was a better option?
do you know anyohe who’d choose Donald trump, other than brainwashed fanatical cultists who literally worship him?
over 60% of Americans, and even a majority of republicans, want, according to polls: single payer or otherwise socialized healthcare-no more insurance, federally legal cannabis, abortion access. I suspect the numbers are similar for: tax the rich, net neutrality (once explained), do something about climate change, stop all the bridges collapsing, gimme public transit(maybe), and ‘don’t give the military obscenely expensive shit they’ve literally said they can’t use’, maybe also ‘stop cops killing randos in their homes while they sleep what the fuck’.
weird how none of that is happening and we have the precise opposite being done on most of that.
its not the same, you need to pretend more, but for me, sitting here? its not different enough that I can really throw stones.
It goes beyond that.
PoC districts often get voting machines that don’t work. Urban districts will have large pools of ballots that go uncounted because of deliberate delays in the vote count (similar to what Republicans managed in 2000 with the Brooks Brothers Riot). Judges remove candidates from the ballot for arbitrary reasons (Tom DeLay would routinely run uncontested because his opponents’ petitions to fill would get “lost” or “misfiled’” by the country clerk).
This is only legal in so far as local allied politicians allow it to be.