Every Vote Counts - Texas Edition

[MomentsofSanity]

So Texas is about to pass a law that would make it illegal for you to drive say, your grandmother and her friends or even just your own friends to the polls unless you sign an affidavit for each and every one indicating that they are physically unable to enter the polling place without assistance or risk of injury.. Of course their actual target is get out the vote campaigns.

Now, someone on the right, explain to me how this preserves the integrity of the vote...

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/05/te...iends-to-drive-to-the-polls-together-to-vote/

 

[vi edit]

Yet another state trying it's damnedest to rip away any semblance of being a democracy. We are in for some frightening times over the next decade or two while dwindling Old White Power tries everything it can to grasp onto whatever strings it can to maintain it's underrepresented position of authority.

 

[glenn1]

I suppose there could be some reasons, like the people were being taken without their consent, not providing them with a return trip to bring them to the place from which they came, or if these were being used to avoid CDL (commercial driving license) requirements for transporting folks. Doesn't seem like any of those are in play here though. As reported this bill seems to have no merit.

 

[Indus]

I don't see how this survives a challenge.

 

[zinfamous]

It's almost like that Voting Rights Act was antiquated and unnecessary and totally needed to be neutered because some states were just being treated "unfairly"

 

[zinfamous]

I suppose there could be some reasons, like the people were being taken without their consent,.

i mean yeah sure, of course that is totally reasonable. Would these people then be holding them at gun point and telling them how to vote?

 

[fleshconsumed]

I don't see how this survives a challenge.

Probably not, but with Texas turning purple GOP needs every cheat they can get.

 

[Indus]

Probably not, but with Texas turning purple GOP needs every cheat they can get.

I'd rather just divide the country now and forever into 7 countries.

Atlantic
South East
Midwest
Texas
Western
Alaska
Hawaii

We'd all be so much happier.

 

[Vic]

So carpooling to a polling place would be illegal? How is that even remotely Constitutional?

 

[vi edit]

So carpooling to a polling place would be illegal? How is that even remotely Constitutional?

Or what about a bus driver for a senior citizen center?

 

[kage69]

So carpooling to a polling place would be illegal? How is that even remotely Constitutional?

Remember the days when republicans would just close down voting places, or trim the hours open as much as possible?

Sounds like another really desperate idea that no one bothered to contemplate even a little. It's not unlike the scared republicans in Georgia and their hard on for a 'media approval board.'

Power hungry cowards.

 

[DarthKyrie]

Or what about a bus driver for a senior citizen center?

How about public transportation, Uber, taxis? These creatures are fucking insane.

Edit: The last line is what aliens would say about us.

 

[UNCjigga]

Editor’s note: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated SB 9 would apply to a voter driving any friends to the polls. That section of SB 9 applies only to those needing assistance from poll workers

 

[HomerJS]

Forgetting for a moment people being driven to polls just increases voter turnout not change their intent for who to vote for.

Republicans know the numbers. Lower turnout is good for them

 

[Paratus]

I suppose there could be some reasons, like the people were being taken without their consent, not providing them with a return trip to bring them to the place from which they came, or if these were being used to avoid CDL (commercial driving license) requirements for transporting folks. Doesn't seem like any of those are in play here though. As reported this bill seems to have no merit.

Well since this runs a foul of freedom of assembly and association the Texas government is going to be held to strict scrutiny. So they need a compelling state interest.

Luckily they have one. Texas obviously has a compelling interest in maintaining free and fair elections to elect Republicans. Allowing more citizens to exercise their right to vote is a direct threat to republican rule. I’m sure if it comes to a SCOTUS or Texas Supreme Court ruling they will see it that way.

 

[pcgeek11]

So carpooling to a polling place would be illegal? How is that even remotely Constitutional?

From the article:

It makes it illegal for, say, a friend to drive 3 or more voters who are “physically unable to enter the polling place without personal assistance” and therefore request a poll worker’s assistance to bring “a ballot to the voter at the polling place entrance or curb,” unless they fill out and sign an affidavit attesting to the voters’ inability to enter the polling location without help.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Must be how those 3 million illegals voted.

 

[brycejones]

From the article:

It makes it illegal for, say, a friend to drive 3 or more voters who are “physically unable to enter the polling place without personal assistance” and therefore request a poll worker’s assistance to bring “a ballot to the voter at the polling place entrance or curb,” unless they fill out and sign an affidavit attesting to the voters’ inability to enter the polling location without help.

Damn this must be a really yuge problem in Texas. /s

 

[ivwshane]

So what issue is this bill actually trying to address?

 

[brycejones]

So what issue is this bill actually trying to address?

Imaginary problems. This screams of a thing happened 1 time and someone complained about how there ought to be a law and these dip shits started working on one.

 

[Paratus]

So what issue is this bill actually trying to address?

Democrats making in roads and turning Texas blue?

 

[HomerJS]

From the article:

It makes it illegal for, say, a friend to drive 3 or more voters who are “physically unable to enter the polling place without personal assistance” and therefore request a poll worker’s assistance to bring “a ballot to the voter at the polling place entrance or curb,” unless they fill out and sign an affidavit attesting to the voters’ inability to enter the polling location without help.

So instead of focusing on handling of the ballots after cast they make a big deal about shit like this??

Just admit you Republicans don't give a fuck about people voting unless its your kind of people.

 

[dank69]

I suppose there could be some reasons, like the people were being taken without their consent, not providing them with a return trip to bring them to the place from which they came, or if these were being used to avoid CDL (commercial driving license) requirements for transporting folks. Doesn't seem like any of those are in play here though. As reported this bill seems to have no merit.

I think we already have laws against kidnapping.

 

[zinfamous]

At what point will the wannabe confederate states be excluded from Federal elections? It seems that they didn't get the memo 170 years ago, and that the USA was way too accommodating in letting them try to assimilate. ...seems to me that those traitors should have been rounded up and sent to re-education camps at the point of a gun, and all of their land confiscated and returned in perpetuity to the humans and the ancestors of the humans that they hoped to own.

The USA was way too generous to these traitors, and look at them now: still think they deserve participation in a free nation with none of the responsibilities that come with freedom. Fuck them.

 

[dank69]

I suppose there could be some reasons, like the people were being taken without their consent, not providing them with a return trip to bring them to the place from which they came, or if these were being used to avoid CDL (commercial driving license) requirements for transporting folks. Doesn't seem like any of those are in play here though. As reported this bill seems to have no merit.

Honestly, do you ever wonder why you always try to figure out how Republican legislation is NOT corrupt and always try to figure out how Democratic legislation IS corrupt? Or do you really not even notice? I ask because I know nothing about you outside of what you post in this forum and it is painfully obvious to me.