Posted on 07/06/2022 5:25:15 PM PDT by Libloather
Leaders of Texas’ Republican Party continue to promote false claims that the 2020 presidential election was “stolen” from former President Donald Trump – and during the Texas GOP convention in Houston last month, members overwhelmingly voted to make election reforms the party’s No. 1 priority.
As the Houston Chronicle reports, this means they want the state to adopt laws in the 2023 legislative session that would further restrict voting by shortening the early voting period from two weeks to one and by no longer letting any senior vote by mail.
“They’re going off of this assumption that there’s more fraud in early voting and in mail voting,” said Jeremy Wallace, a political reporter at the Chronicle’s Austin bureau. “That is based on some of the unproven claims from former President Donald Trump about how elections went in other states like Pennsylvania and Georgia, and the Texas Republican Party has kind of grabbed that baton and are pushing it in Texas, even though there’s been no evidence that the expanded early voting time that we have here in Texas has resulted in additional fraud.”
Under legislation that would limit seniors from voting by mail, instead of letting anyone over the age of 65 have the option, as they have for decades, seniors would instead only be able to do so with an excuse.
Out of the million voters who utilized mail-in voting for the 2020 presidential election, 850,000 were 65 and up, Wallace said. But Republicans’ new proposal would limit absentee voting to those who are in the military, have a disability or are out of the country.
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Isn't Gropin' Joe still blaming Russia for high gas prices? You betcha...
“Texas’ Republican Party continue to promote false claims..”
Texas has put several people, all democrats, in prison for election fraud over the last two years.
Texas would have voted for Josef Stolen if Gov. Abbott had not, to the wails and gnashing of democratic teeth, limited the number of drop boxes in the last election.
I believe that in other countries, even during the pandemic, mail-in voting was maybe 2% of the population, no doubt with security provisions, as in-person voters, of course, were required to show ID.
Being a seasoned senior, I am fully capable of finding a convenient form of transportation and from any destination. This applies to my “really old neighbors” as well. Texans are like Ford Trucks, we are built tough!!
Loose voting laws do not favor democrats at all. It is a mere coincidence that democrats fight election integrity with absolute fervor.
In my precinct the polls are located in a hard to reach building with parking up in the air and stairs everywhere. Then you stand in line foe almost an hour. 65 is awfully young to have mail in ballots, 75 is more realistic.
I wouldn’t mind if AZ got rid of mail in ballots if they would go back to local schools or churches as polling places.
“...by no longer letting any senior vote by mail.”
That is completely fake news. The reform certainly will allow some seniors (every one of them with an excuse) to vote by mail. So the article is lying. Probably part of the reason for that is the widespread inability of so-called journalists to express themselves correctly in English. Who knows. Regardless, it is a lie.
Mail in voting = massive fraud.
Ditto.
When my grandfather was in his late 80s and had been confined to a wheelchair for ten years, he still insisted on getting loaded in the car so my grandmother (then in her 70s) could drive them both to vote.
When my mother was in her 80s I drove her to vote, until her Alzheimer's reached the point that she could no longer understand how to vote. In her last year, she was confined to a nursing home and someone registered her to vote by mail from the nursing home. I intercepted the mail in ballot and tore it up. After she died, I had her removed from the voting rolls. Two years later, someone registered her to vote from the nursing home and I was able to cancel her registration before they voted.
It was “stolen”. I for one have hundreds of stories and I believe there’s more proof than not. Democrats always cheat.
Where is Texas Public Radio located?
People’s Republic of San Antonio?
The only rational system is paper ballots deposited in ballot boxes on election day with positive voter ID. Add annual purging of voting rolls. No early or late voting. No mail-in voting. No absentee voting. Voting precincts to be set up on military reservations with the same rules. Observers from both parties to be present and close enough to really see the count. Cheating is still possible but it would take much more manpower and would have to be done one voting station at a time.
I had to look up who TPR was, never heard of them. Is it a branch of NPR? (Really looks like it :/)
Texas has pretty clean elections under the existing rules. I much prefer having early voting instead of relaxed absentee voting. The system Texas has in place now started in 1987. The early votes are all tabulated the weekend prior to election day. Those results are released promptly at poll closing time (7 pm local time) in each county. We get our votes counted on election night, usually by 10 pm. There is no reason to cut down on early voting. Lots of people in the oil and gas industry favored enactment of early voting in 1987, because they don’t know where they will be on election day.
Mail in voting is pretty restricted in Texas. We have very generous in person early voting, so not so many people have to vote absentee (by mail). I have only voted absentee twice. I usually vote absentee, because I work as a judge or alternate judge on election day.
Contrary to your beliefs, paper ballots are easy to rig. Voting machines are much more secure. Lots of people have jobs that are not 9 to 5. They have just as much right to vote as anyone else. My father was a petroleum geologist. Prior to the 1988 elections, he had to lie in order to get absentee ballots sent out of county, so he could vote absentee. Seriously he really had no idea if he would be at home on election day.
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Lots of jobs require mobility in employees. Thus in person early
voting is appropriate imo. I have voted early in most every
election for many years now. I”m retired now but its more
convenient to vote early when the lines aren't long. JMO
People don’t frikkin vote anyway. The last local election where I live was decided by 6% of eligible voters. 6%!!!!!!!!!!
Mechanical voting machines, perhaps. Electronic machines aare easy enough to manipulate that one would wonder why any are not manipulated. The Dominion machines have an inserted at the factory algorithm that switches a set percentage of votes. It turns out also that virtually all of them in 2020 were attached to the internet though we were all assured that they were not.
Voting machines are much more secure.
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What a crock.
Paxton was asked to certify smartmatic/ dominion for the state of Texas when he was AG.
He made a 3 hour vid, complete with domoniin manual flow charts and diagrams.
It was infinitely hackable at numerous points. Texas didn’t use them for that election for cause.
You are flat out wrong.
.Plus no matter what the name printed on them , they are all manufactored in Communist China.
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