Posted on 02/19/2014 1:38:30 PM PST by onyx
2014 is here. The choices are becoming clearer, and the battle lines are being drawn. The GOP Beltway crowd has convinced itself that the way to maintain or retake the majority is through compromise and capitulation on important issues like amnesty, Obamacare, and the ever-increasing federal debt. They think that by making deals with a deeply unpopular and divisive incu...mbent president on issues that Americans oppose, they’ll somehow endear themselves to voters.
Enough is enough. The permanent political class in D.C. won’t listen. So, let’s start putting our efforts behind good new candidates who will go to Washington not to line their own pockets, but to help restore our country. It’s time to put inspiration, ingenuity, and integrity over incumbency in the GOP.
Let’s start in Texas. The lines couldn’t be clearer. Katrina Pierson is an emerging leader and important voice for the future of the grassroots conservative movement. Her life’s story is full of hardships she has fought to overcome, which taught her firsthand the importance of self-reliance, hard work, and the blessings of liberty.
A feisty fighter for freedom, Katrina is taking on a powerful incumbent who has so lost touch with the people of his district that he’s not even bothering to spend much time in Texas anymore. It’s not only his district he’s lost touch with, but also the issues important to the voters there. He used his powerful position to oppose the movement to defund Obamacare, has voted to raise the debt ceiling, and has been an advocate for the NSA intrusion into our freedoms. When asked about Katrina’s primary challenge, he said, “these things happen.” Yes, they do. We all know what happens when we come together to support a good candidate like Katrina – the permanent political class loses and We the People win! We win by electing a fighter we can depend on like Katrina Pierson. Ted Cruz calls Katrina “an utterly fearless principled conservative.” He should know. Katrina was among the conservative grassroots warriors in Texas who worked tirelessly to elect Senator Cruz.
Early voting started yesterday, Texas. Get out now and vote for Katrina. Send a message to the GOP elites on behalf of Katrina, just like you did for Ted Cruz in 2012.
And while you are out there voting for Katrina, check the box for another good conservative – Greg Abbott for Governor of Texas. Like Katrina, Greg has overcome many personal obstacles and challenges, which have made him a believer in the power of liberty and the need to defend our freedoms from the overreach of an out-of-control federal government. If he is good enough for Ted Nugent, he is good enough for me!
You can learn more about Katrina Pierson at: www.katrinaforcongress.com
and more about Greg Abbott at: www.gregabbott.com
God bless you and God bless America.
- Sarah Palin
Thanks!
Correct.
Probably someone who will not FIGHT back against Liberals, Democrats and Rinos!
A true American if there ever was one!
Sadly, the American people won’t come to their senses! If they were, they would have already done so.
Texas deserves a lot better than a wimpy little man like Pete Sessions.
Go Katrina.
Makes sense - thanks!
Perhaps early voting is not that much of a problem in Texas, especially in a GOP primary, because I understand that the state electoral system is relatively clean compared to others. However, in general, every time you hear of "early voting," it's a good reminder for all folks interested in fair election procedure to work to repeal it wherever it exists.
Early voting plainly opens up more opportunities for cheating and fraud, especially in general elections where one major party has more of a propensity for such shenanigans than the other. (Secondarily, it costs state and local governments much more to keep the polls open for many days rather than one election day.) Maybe not in Texas so much, but surely many close elections have been stolen over the last two decades by cheaters taking advantage of many days to vote multiple times for themselves or others.
Early voting did not exist in the United States as we now know it until the Clintons got into their sinister electoral "reforms" mode in the 1990s. The country did without it for the bulk of its history, and there's no good reason why we need it now - anywhere in the country.
Absolutely correct! One would wonder if we are in the covered wagon era!
Grassroots conservatives turn out big in TEXAS, especially ON ELECTION DAY in a sea change election.
Who benefits from long, drawn out, early voting is the Democrat machine, given time to round up Houston, DFW, etc., low ‘fo voters. Period.
Trading “convenience” for benefiting your own political opposition and increasing the risk for corrupting your ballot is, well, stupid.
How many times have candidates been blown up only to leave all early voters at the station, with no recourse but loss of their vote, or the whole dang box of early ballots?
Recommending early voting always needs a caveat, a tutorial on the obvious political risk and shenanigans caused by extremely early voting, a practice that needs to stop.
“However, in general, every time you hear of “early voting,” it’s a good reminder for all folks interested in fair election procedure to work to repeal it wherever it exists.”
Early voting is not going away in Texas because if voting was only one day, many thousands would not get to vote as voting lines would be miles long.
Early voting is conducted exactly as election day voting. When a voter votes early, his name is stamped as voting on the election judge’s voter list right there at the poll. After early voting is over, those having voted are stamped on the county master voting list and that list is given to election judges on regular voting day. Any voter who shows up but has already voted as indicated on the voter list, will be turned away.
So what did you do in Texas before there was early voting? Did many thousands who wanted to vote and who were eligible to vote not get to vote because of impossibly long lines? Don't think that happened very often, and I don't think that was the main impetus for early voting to be introduced.
I realize that you have had a lot of population growth in Texas recently, but one of the obvious solutions to the problems of long lines on Election Day would be to increase the number of polling stations and polling personnel.
“So what did you do in Texas before there was early voting?”
For one, I didn’t get to vote. People get off work and show up after that and the lines were so long, I couldn’t stand there anymore. If you have any kind of problem standing for hours, you can’t do it.
You can’t open more voting places on voting day because the law is each precinct has one election judge so there is one voting place in each precinct.
The Texas Election Code determines how voting is accomplished in Texas - you need to read it before making up your own election rules.
Refer to my post 92 and 94.
“How many times have candidates been blown up only to leave all early voters at the station, with no recourse but loss of their vote, or the whole dang box of early ballots?”
In the Texas Election Code, there is a law that says once the ballots are printed, no change can happen. There is a cut off date for registering as a candidate and that name gets printed on the ballot.
We had a candidate for Republican county judge and he died in September but his name could not be removed from the ballot. This dead candidate almost won over the Democrat on election day in November.
There ya’ go— another classic example of enabling the enemy with shoot-your-foot-off rules.
Thank you for your knowing the knowable and bothering to sharevit. I know a little of your political experience and believe you to have no stars in your eyes. I respect you. Thx. Rita
Early voting is not going away in Texas because if voting was only one day, many thousands would not get to vote as voting lines would be miles long.
Early voting is conducted exactly as election day voting. When a voter votes early, his name is stamped as voting on the election judge’s voter list right there at the poll. After early voting is over, those having voted are stamped on the county master voting list and that list is given to election judges on regular voting day. Any voter who shows up but has already voted as indicated on the voter list, will be turned away.
Wasn't suggesting making decisions on Election Day about increasing the number of polling locations (and equipment and personnel). Couldn't the number of precincts and voting stations and polling personnel possibly be increased and planned prior to Election Day to accommodate an expected larger voter turnouts and thereby decrease the waiting times and lines - if early voting were dropped.
The Texas Election Code determines how voting is accomplished in Texas - you need to read it before making up your own election rules.
Everyone here has utmost respect for Texas law, even those of us who are not Texans. We are just throwing out a meaningful suggestion to you folks about possibly amending the current law. The discussion as to whether early voting should or should not be repealed, no matter which state we're talking about, essentially boils down to values: would you rather improve the integrity of the election process at the expense of convenience to some, or would you rather improve the convenience of some at the expense of lesser integrity in the process?
NO. Many laws would have to be rewritten and counties and precincts turned on their heads and that is not going to happen. Precincts are decided on the number of people in a precinct and when the number goes over a designated number, then another precinct has to be created. Precincts are not created on a whim.
Also, if you had boots on the ground, you would know it is very difficult to find election judges and if you choose them willy/nilly, they won't know the law and voting at a precinct where they would be, would be a disaster and full of errors and a great place to have voter fraud. Judges have to be trained in the law in order to hold a fair election and it's difficult to find people willing to invest the time to learn the law about holding an election.
I have instructed over 1,000 elections judges and clerks. It was a four hour workshop in the law and it's hard for people to grasp all that in four hours so I was available at any time for them to contact me when they had questions. I also gave them a folder filled with what they needed to know so they could refer to that if they got stuck. Not many people will do that so adding a bunch of new election judges isn't going to happen. Talk to a county chair and ask him/her how difficult it is to find election workers.
You can read the election law of any state if you go to the website of the Secretary of State for your state. There should be a link there to take you to those laws. My Texas Election Code book is 551 pages. Thank goodness, election workers don't have to know all of it. County chairs need to know it all so I taught election law to them and to lawyers who were interested in that law.
So, you find the election law in your state, plus state law that designates how precincts are determined, then you will be more informed.
What can POSSIBLY be so cumbersome??
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