Posted on 08/29/2019 5:32:54 PM PDT by bgill
A new report out of Austin Community College Thursday predicts 16 to 17% of Texas voters in November 2020 will not fill out their entire ballot. It’s a side effect of 2017’s House Bill 25 which repealed straight-ticket voting in the state. The measure used to automatically select all members of a certain political party on a given ballot.
This will impact older people and people of color the most, according to the report.
The analysis came out of ACC’s Center for Public Policy and Political Studies. Peck Young heads the center and says voters will just get tired around judicial races.
“They’re used to walking in there and going, just a minute Mildred, (motions to punching a voting machine). I voted. Let’s go get some coffee. Now they’re going to be sitting in there going “oh wow – how many of these blooming people are there?” said Young.
(Excerpt) Read more at kxan.com ...
lol
If you’re too ####ing dumb to not be able to read and understand how to vote regardless of how its’ set up, the area is better off without you voting.
If it is so difficult to vote that you can’t do it without actually looking and seeing who you are actually casting votes for - well, you probably shouldn’t be voting.
I don’t know why they did this, it was so convenient and was that way all my life.
“report predicts” , “experts say”, “sources say”, “studies show”.
Blah, blah, blah.
In other words, old people and people of color are too stupid to vote.
I guess that means people of color must be downright retarded to DemoncRats.
Oops, make that Old people of color...
Exactly right. All that study is saying is that those people are either too stupid or too lazy to do what they need to do to be informed and vote.
I have NO sympathy for blacks.
They are told by the party that they vote for that they are basically dumber than ####ing bricks and it’s a miracle they can chew gum and walk at the same time.
Yet they still keep voting for them.
My wife voted for the first time in 2016. The under-card threw her for a loop because there were 6 guys running for city auditor, 5 guys running for county clerk, 8 guys running for... you get the idea. It intimidated the crap out of her because she’d never seen a ballot before. But she hung in there and got it done, bless her. Kinda hard to feel sorry for the “Texans of color” on this one.
ha ha
Austin Commie College
I'm sure it's a veritable brain trust.
So this college is saying that old people stupid. Nice.
“This will impact older people and people of color the most,”
So this “study” proves the “racists” are right after all. Colored people, oops, I mean, people of color are too dumb to even figure out a ballot.
I’m sure blacks appreciate this type of publicity.
Ditto
Nope,this is one of those times they include hispanics. This will really screw them up in the border counties. Before,the instructions were use the "D" option. Now it just got more complicated,especially dealing with illiterates. (Can't read or write in any language.)
repealed straight-ticket voting
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Well heck.... Got to go back to the ‘crooked - ticket’..
Nothing says you have to vote the entire ballot. If a geezer/geezerette/person of color has more important things to do on election day, he or she can vote for the offices they care/know about and leave the rest of the ballot blank. It means that the down-ballot offices might be elected by people who either care enough to know who’s running or who care enough to mark the ballot for the party they favor.
Of course we don’t want to disenfranchise the lazy, stupid or ignorant, do we?
1) The author of this “study” assume minorities and the elderly are less intelligent and diligent than other voters. That is blatantly, shamefully, racist and ageist.
2) If their assumptions are correct, straight ticket voting has perpetrated election fraud by collecting votes that minorities and the elderly WOULD NOT HAVE CAST, absent partisan trickery.
3) There is no “right” to straight ticket voting. It is an illegitimate gimmick created by the established political parties to make third party candidates have almost no chance.
...as the Boston Globe would say.
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