Texas Democratic Party Sees Success In Vote By Mail Program

Laredo Sun ^ | October 26, 2014 | Special to the Laredo Sun

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Austin, TX – As early voting begins, there has been a huge increase in mail-in-ballots thanks to the Texas Democratic Party’s vote by mail program.

In January, we sent more than 116,000 annual applications to eligible voters so they could vote by mail in the Democratic primary, runoff, and the general election. This set the stage for success this November.

We followed-up that successful program with more than 637,000 applications mailed in September.

Texas Democratic Party Executive Director Will Hailer released the following statement:

“We are incredibly encouraged by the numbers we are seeing for vote by mail. For the first time ever, the Texas Democratic Party built and funded a statewide program with more than 600,000 Texans receiving vote by mail applications. “Not only did these voters receive the applications, but candidates, county parties, Battleground Texas, the Texas Democratic Party and dozens of Turnout Texas fellows across the state made phone calls and knocked on doors to encourage voters to return their applications and vote by mail.

We believe the spike in vote by mail ballots can be attributed to this successful program and the hard work of the Democratic infrastructure being built across the state. This program shows that when Democrats work together, we can achieve big things.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

The fraud will be off the charts this election.

[Tennessean4Bush]

How does something like this get passed in Texas, for God’s sake?

[GeronL]

I live in Texas and I had no idea we had vote by mail.

[GeronL]

Good question

[Oldeconomybuyer]

That’s because you are a citizen.

[catfish1957]

Windy’s got to break 40% some how. /s

[Gay State Conservative]

Motor Voter...early voting...voting by mail...ALL methods for the Rat Party to scam the election.

[realcleanguy]

Wendy Davis is so far down in the polls the only way she can win is through fraud

[Morpheus2009]

I know any given state allows an absentee ballot form if you are out of state, in my case, I was out of state for school, the military allows likewise, you send the mail in ballot to the department of elections.

[FlingWingFlyer]

“Voting” by mail is probably one of the easiest ways to commit voter fraud. You don’t have to worry about getting caught. The elections department hasn’t got a clue who completed the ballot or where it came from. They chalk them up for the DemocRAT anyway.

[catfish1957]

From the TSOS office:

Application for a Ballot by Mail

To be eligible to vote early by mail in Texas, you must:

•be 65 years or older;

•be disabled;

•be out of the county on election day and during the period for early voting by personal appearance; or

•be confined in jail, but otherwise eligible.

[Slyfox]

We believe the spike in vote by mail ballots can be attributed to this successful program and the hard work of the Democratic infrastructure being built across the state.

We let's see. There are how many nursing homes and assisted living centers in Texas? And how many volunteers can the democraps get to go into each nursing home and get the resident to sign for the "correct" candidate?

My favorite aunt was in an assisted living and I was visiting and she showed me a letter she had gotten. She couldn't see very well so I read it out loud to her. It was a vote by mail ballot that she had not requested. Fortunately for her I was there and knew what to do. And I did not wait for someone to come pick it up. I dropped it off where it needed to go.

But she had not requested it. Someone probably got her name from a list of residents and put in a request for her.

It is really easy to cheat.

[Ray76]

Of course they see success - it’s fraud-o-rama!

[C. Edmund Wright]

Headline should be “TEXAS DEMOCRAT PARTY SEES SUCCESS IN VOTE BY FRAUD SCHEME”

[Lazamataz]

Yup. I'm convinced now. The fraud is so out-of-control at this point, we will not win one dog-catcher's seat this November.

We will lose dozens of seats.

We will even lose seats that are not up for election this year.

[C. Edmund Wright]

Well I think you’re a little over the top there.....damn I hope so.

[MulberryDraw]

Funny how the article didn’t mention those requirements. On the flip side, here in the panhandle, there are temporary voting places being setup in retirement places so that elderly can more easily vote. I’d think that might be an advantage to Republicans.

[JLAGRAYFOX]

LMAO.......First I don’t believe one word of this hogwash. Second...if it is true, just watch the mail-in Democrat votes coming in from the border countires with Mexico. They hate Wendy Davis!!! She lost every border county in the Democrat primary, while running aginst an unkown Hispanic cadidate!!! Wendy Davis is going to lose big time and take the Democrat Pary in texas down with her!!!

Folks....the Democrat Party in Texas is so in panic....they are almost ready to jump into the Rio Grande River and swim into Mexico as illegal aliens!!! LMAO!!!

[KC_Conspirator]

It will be off the charts.

[lonestar]

We've had vote by mail for years. The intent was to allow shut-ins and bedridden the ability to vote.

Democrats have mastered the art of stealing elections and use what was meant to help people, help them to cheat.

IIRC, the ballots are kept separate and the signatures on the application have to match the returned ballot...when you don't have a Democrat County Clerk.