Posted on 03/18/2020 6:56:40 PM PDT by karpov
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Texas is a red state with exclusively Republican statewide elected officials, but Houston is in Harris County, which is dominated by Democrats. They run elections there.
Harris County Clerk and Chief Election Officer Diane Trautman, a Democrat, was in charge of Super Tuesday’s vote. She ran for office promising to consolidate voting locations so people could cast ballots at “countywide voting centers” rather than at their precincts.
Ms. Trautman’s staff gave Republicans and Democrats the same number of machines at Texas Southern, though any rookie would know that site would have a much larger Democratic primary than Republican. Ms. Trautman could also have listened to GOP officials, who urged that machines be allocated to locations based on historical turnout. Instead she overruled them.
Oh, and it turns out Mr. Rogers, the voter with the longest wait, was ineligible to vote. He’s a felon on parole and, under Texas law, not allowed to register until he completes his sentence in mid-June. Apparently the Democratic tax assessor-collector and voter registrar didn’t check the county’s records when he signed up.
Lina Hidalgo, the Harris County executive, was surprised to discover right before Super Tuesday that Ms. Trautman put two-thirds of polling sites in the county’s more-Republican part while consigning the heavily Democratic part to have more countywide voting centers. Why didn’t Ms. Hidalgo, another Democrat, realize that earlier?
A 2019 study from the Leadership Conference Education Fund, a civil-rights group, found that Texas counties with rapidly growing Latino and black populations reduced their numbers of voting sites. A Texas Democratic Party spokesman blamed Republican officials for it, adding, “People have died to fight for the sanctity of the vote.” Racist Republicans? Look more closely.
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So just democrats were waiting for hours? Check.
The DEMS are pushing mail in ballots. Probably have the extras ready to go.
It's a shame. He could have exposed Democrats' schemes and forced them to eat crow.
Couldn’t do anything with the Keebler-Elf-cleared Impeachmentfest going on for years.
What is Rove’s deal now? Is he still a never-Trumper?
Rs and Ds can’t vote on the same machine?
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