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 It’s a side effect of 2017’s House Bill 25 which repealed straight-ticket voting in the state.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.
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lol
i have MUCH more sympathy for the elderly as we may all get flustered a little easier one day.
But that’s based on the brain aging and dying cells.
Not skin pigment!!
A few fishes short of the Seven Fishes, eh?
Well since they have them in Spanish, Chinese, Urdu, etc. they should have them in ebonics too.
They already have “the night before Christmas” in ebonics.
Why? Are they stupid, lazy or both?
8 of 50....sixteen percent.
Definitely a minority option.
I never fill out the entire ballot. Unless you practice law at the local courthouse, there’s not way to make an informed judgment on the courthouse denizens.
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