Posted on 01/15/2022 4:42:44 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
Election officials in the Texas county that includes the state capital, Austin, have rejected about half of applications for mail-in ballots, following new voting restrictions brought in by Republicans.
The voter identification rules have led to the rejection of about half of the 700 mail-in ballots requested in Travis county for primary elections in March, according to the county’s clerk.
The denied ballots in Travis county follow a similar trend across Texas, with officials in Harris county, which includes the city of Houston, and Bexar county, which includes San Antonio, also turning down a substantial number of mail-in ballot applications.
Republicans in several states have sought to impose voting restrictions in the wake of baseless allegations of voter fraud by Donald Trump, the twice-impeached former president who has struggled to accept the reality that he was beaten fairly by Joe Biden in last year’s presidential election.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
In the old days, people had to prove they could read and pay a Poll Tax.
Most stress testing looks for weaknesses and strengthens them.
Democrats are probing for strengths, so they can sic their lawyers on them before election day.
-PJ
Yup, those tricky republicans made the rules so strict...like signatures matching, real addresses, real people, state residency requirements, you know the things used to typically suppress votes.
Excellent! Provide valid verifiable ID or show up in person and show ID. That’s exactly how it should be. The same goes for requiring that poll watchers have a MEANINGFUL right to observe....as in close enough that the vote counter can smell their breath. As in close enough that they can read each ballot being counted and raise objections to flawed ballots being counted.
Anybody opposed to these and other election integrity measures simply wants to commit election fraud.
Take two weeks to vote. Use all the mail in, absentee, drop box, and ballot harvesting you want. We will reject every fraudulent vote and prosecute whoever produces them.
Yeah, but the applications would turn into ballots if not caught.
It’s likely democrats doing a set-up, testing the republican rules, and preparing for demonization of the rules and republicans.
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Republicans had best prepare well in advance for a fight — with convincing ads and talking points.
Baseless fraud allegations according to the vehemently anti-America “Guardian”. The story contradicts their own reporting.
Travis County is one of the dirty Texas counties.
Disenfranchised cemetery residents are beside themselves!
So fix the mistakes and try again, dumbasses.
Fake news media are always gonna lie with a bold face.
Overrun with filthy, leftist California trash.
Leftard is a religion, and this is the catechism. Vax is the communion, and you confess your whiteness to get a penance and no absolution, just abuse. It is the Church of the Bleeding Heart.
To be initiated as a priest, take a vow of unfettered promiscuity.
Information-free reporting. All the smears that fit, they print.
Not voting restrictions voter fraud restrictions period.
The Guardian is a whiney left rag pro socialism.
No. That’s why they are applying for mail-in ballots ... note the counties.
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