One Republican voter suppression effort defeated in court, one suppression effort upheld

[RandomGuy]

Texas GOP's last-minute challenge to curbside, drive-thru voting in Harris County dismissed
https://www.chron.com/news/election2020/article/Texas-GOP-s-last-minute-challenge-to-curbside-15647142.php

and:


Texas voters will have only 1 ballot drop-off box per county, federal appeals court rules
https://www.chron.com/news/election2020/article/Texas-voters-will-have-only-1-ballot-box-drop-off-15644071.php

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They aren't even trying to hide their efforts to keep Democrats from voting. They are outright attempting to win by cheating and making the process are difficult and unfair as possible.

Fuckers.

[DarrinS]

Early voting begins on Oct. 13 and lasts until Oct. 30, meaning there’s more time than usual to cast a ballot in Texas.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a proclamation for an extended early voting period to give people more flexibility with casting their ballots during the coronavirus crisis.

With nearly 50 polling locations in Bexar County open daily, and staying open until 10 p.m. during the last week of early voting, residents will have options to safely cast a ballot.

The additional time and locations will help with the county’s surge of registered voters this cycle. As of Monday, the county recorded 1.18 million registered voters, about 125,000 more registered voters than the 2016 general election.


^voter suppression. :lmao

[Spurs Homer]

Early voting begins on Oct. 13 and lasts until Oct. 30, meaning there’s more time than usual to cast a ballot in Texas.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a proclamation for an extended early voting period to give people more flexibility with casting their ballots during the coronavirus crisis.

With nearly 50 polling locations in Bexar County open daily, and staying open until 10 p.m. during the last week of early voting, residents will have options to safely cast a ballot.

The additional time and locations will help with the county’s surge of registered voters this cycle. As of Monday, the county recorded 1.18 million registered voters, about 125,000 more registered voters than the 2016 general election.


^voter suppression. :lmao


ONE ballot drop box per county....


ONE box for 4 million-plus Harris county voters....


ONE party encourages everyone to vote

ONE party does everything it can possibly do to discourage people from casting a ballot.

nuff sed

[RandomGuy]

Early voting begins on Oct. 13 and lasts until Oct. 30, meaning there’s more time than usual to cast a ballot in Texas.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a proclamation for an extended early voting period to give people more flexibility with casting their ballots during the coronavirus crisis.

With nearly 50 polling locations in Bexar County open daily, and staying open until 10 p.m. during the last week of early voting, residents will have options to safely cast a ballot.

The additional time and locations will help with the county’s surge of registered voters this cycle. As of Monday, the county recorded 1.18 million registered voters, about 125,000 more registered voters than the 2016 general election.


^voter suppression. :lmao

Dishonest lying fuck, as usual.

Yes, or no, dishonest lying fuck, if you limit mail in drop box to one per county, and the county with the largest democratic population has more people voting than 20+ STATES, will that cause delays?

yes or no. Evade, and you prove me right about you being a dishonest lying fuck.

After you answer that, or not:
If you increase access to voting in all areas, then seek to actively limit voting in areas where you won't win, are you suppressing voters? Yes or no.

[DarrinS]

ONE ballot drop box per county....


ONE box for 4 million-plus Harris county voters....


ONE party encourages everyone to vote

ONE party does everything it can possibly do to discourage people from casting a ballot.

nuff sed


For Harris county:

There are currently more than 100 early voting locations on the county's list, including some large venues like the Toyota Center and NRG Arena.

[RandomGuy]

For Harris county:

There are currently more than 100 early voting locations on the county's list, including some large venues like the Toyota Center and NRG Arena.

Who gets to decide how many early voting locations there will be in Harris county, a Republican, or a Democrat, dishonest lying fuck?

[DarrinS]

Both suppressed and shattering records

https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=287441&p=10294619&viewfull=1#post10294619


:lmao

[Reck]

Early voting begins on Oct. 13 and lasts until Oct. 30, meaning there’s more time than usual to cast a ballot in Texas.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a proclamation for an extended early voting period to give people more flexibility with casting their ballots during the coronavirus crisis.

With nearly 50 polling locations in Bexar County open daily, and staying open until 10 p.m. during the last week of early voting, residents will have options to safely cast a ballot.

The additional time and locations will help with the county’s surge of registered voters this cycle. As of Monday, the county recorded 1.18 million registered voters, about 125,000 more registered voters than the 2016 general election.


^voter suppression. :lmao

So much dumb contained within one post. Drink up, black lung.

[Spurs Homer]

For Harris county:

There are currently more than 100 early voting locations on the county's list, including some large venues like the Toyota Center and NRG Arena.

yes because ONE party saw the other party suppressing the vote, filing lawsuits to suppress votes, create a false narrative that the election was rigged and pushed russian propaganda...


the ONE party sprung into action to create EASIER ways to vote and the response was


more lawsuits from Republicans to CEASE the drive thru voting....


the fact that Dems became pro-active to help people vote


does not excuse the voter suppression and fuckery of your party

[RandomGuy]

Well, I don't expect an honest answer from a dishonest lying fuck, so I looked it up.


Christopher Hollins
Christopher George Hollins is an American Democratic Party official and personal injury attorney who currently serves as the interim County Clerk and the Chief Elections Officer of Harris County, Texas.

The answer is, a Democrat gets to decide how many polling places to have for Harris County: 100+

...and a Republican gets to decide how many mail-in drop boxes there are for Harris County: 1

If you are a dishonest lying fuck, you will avoid acknowledging those facts.

[RandomGuy]

Both suppressed and shattering records

https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=287441&p=10294619&viewfull=1#post10294619


:lmao

So you dodged the question, dishonest lying fuck.

Ok. I didn't expect you to suddenly be concerned about fairness or generally not being evil. You are pretty devoted to lying and evil, I don't expect you to change now.

[Will Hunting]

For Harris county:

There are currently more than 100 early voting locations on the county's list, including some large venues like the Toyota Center and NRG Arena.
Many of which Abbott is trying to get shut down in court. The early voting effort in Harris County was because of work done at the county level and also done in spite of Abbott's efforts to suppress votes.

[RandomGuy]

Both suppressed and shattering records

https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=287441&p=10294619&viewfull=1#post10294619


:lmao

If you increase access to voting in all areas, then seek to actively limit voting in areas where you won't win, are you suppressing voters? Yes or no.

Dodge= admit that Randomguy is right about you being a dishonest lying fuck.

[SnakeBoy]

Both suppressed and shattering records

https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=287441&p=10294619&viewfull=1#post10294619


:lmao

[RandomGuy]

[repeats a bad argument, as if he doesn't realize how it is bad and/or dishonest]

Speaking of dishonest lying fucks.

If you increase access to voting in all areas, then seek to actively limit voting in areas where you won't win, are you suppressing voters? Yes or no, sophist.

[DarrinS]

"Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a proclamation for an extended early voting period to give people more flexibility with casting their ballots during the coronavirus crisis."


I guess he wanted to suppress voting longer. :lmao

[RandomGuy]

..

[RandomGuy]

If you increase access to voting in all areas, then seek to actively limit voting in areas where you won't win, are you suppressing voters? Yes or no.

Dodge= admit that Randomguy is right about you being a dishonest lying fuck.



"Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a proclamation for an extended early voting period to give people more flexibility with casting their ballots during the coronavirus crisis."


I guess he wanted to suppress voting longer. :lmao

Not an answer, dishonest lying fuck.

If you increase access to voting in all areas, then seek to actively limit voting in areas where you won't win, are you suppressing voters? Yes or no.

[Will Hunting]

:lol when Abbott does 5 different things that suppress votes and 1 thing that doesn't suppress votes, Karrin thinks the 1 thing makes it so the other 5 things don't matter.

[Spurminator]

There's no defending this. Attempts to spin it because "Durr it's still easy to vote in pursun" aren't arguments in favor of the reduction of drop off locations. You can't defend that because there's no defense. You only favor it because it helps your team, and that makes you a gutless shill.

[Will Hunting]

UPDATE - the ADL found a state law Abbott's 1 dropbox per county rule violated, and a Travis County State Court ruled that it has, and I think since it's a state law the 5th circuit decision doesn't apply. My prediction is that the Texas 3rd Court of Appeals upholds the ruling but Texas Supreme Court might reverse it.

https://www.texastribune.org/2020/10/15/texas-mail-in-ballot-drop-off-sites-travis/

[RandomGuy]

:lol when Abbott does 5 different things that suppress votes and 1 thing that doesn't suppress votes, Karrin thinks the 1 thing makes it so the other 5 things don't matter.

Eyup.

These asshats better hope that the Democrats treat them better when they gain control of the state government than they treat the opposition when they have power. At this point, I don't see that happening.

Their salty tears when they suddenly care about gerrymandering or state govenrment closing polling places in Republican-controlled areas will be delicious.

[RandomGuy]

There's no defending this. Attempts to spin it because "Durr it's still easy to vote in pursun" aren't arguments in favor of the reduction of drop off locations. You can't defend that because there's no defense. You only favor it because it helps your team, and that makes you a gutless shit.

FIFY.

[TimDunkem]

Once again Darrin shows the whole forum that he has no fucking clue what he's talking about.

[Spurminator]

UPDATE - the ADL found a state law Abbott's 1 dropbox per county rule violated, and a Travis County State Court ruled that it has, and I think since it's a state law the 5th circuit decision doesn't apply. My prediction is that the Texas 3rd Court of Appeals upholds the ruling but Texas Supreme Court might reverse it.

https://www.texastribune.org/2020/10/15/texas-mail-in-ballot-drop-off-sites-travis/

Honestly people just need to vote in person. Don't leave your vote in the hands of partisan courts and corrupt leadership. They've shown they'll do whatever it takes to suppress the vote, even by objectively illegal means, and at this point nobody's stopping them. See California.

[FrostKing]

My ballot has been laying on my desk for over a week.

I doubt there exists a nation that offers more different ways to vote

[Will Hunting]

There's no defending this. Attempts to spin it because "Durr it's still easy to vote in pursun" aren't arguments in favor of the reduction of drop off locations. You can't defend that because there's no defense. You only favor it because it helps your team, and that makes you a gutless shill.
:lmao Karrin's argument in a nutshell:

"Obvious he's not trying to suppress votes when he takes a fight against no-excuse absentee ballots to the Texas Supreme Court, issues an executive order to reduce dropboxes to one per county knowing it'll affect Democrat stronghold counties the most, fights vigorously to have the executive order upheld in court, tries to get curbside and drive through voting banned, and then tries to reduce the amount of early voting places in Harris County. After all, he did that one thing that makes voting a little easier!"

[Will Hunting]

My ballot has been laying on my desk for over a week.

I doubt there exists a nation that offers more different ways to vote
Germany has universal no-excuse mail-in voting.

I'd be all for limited mail-in voting only for disabled voters and people abroad, but only if it came with exponentially more resources allocated to polling locations, poll workers (the fact we're the richest country in the world and we rely on volunteers to administer elections is fucking ridiculous) and election administration so people weren't waiting in line for 4+ hours. The shortage of resources we have for elections is an intentional problem Republican-controlled states create so they have an excuse for why lines are so long in left-leaning areas. Nowhere in Canada, Western Europe or Australia do people have to wait in line for hours to vote.

[FrostKing]

Germany has universal no-excuse mail-in voting.

I'd be all for limited mail-in voting only for disabled voters and people abroad, but only if it came with exponentially more resources allocated to polling locations, poll workers (the fact we're the richest country in the world and we rely on volunteers to administer elections is fucking ridiculous) and election administration so people weren't waiting in line for 4+ hours. The shortage of resources we have for elections is an intentional problem Republican-controlled states create so they have an excuse for why lines are so long in left-leaning areas. Nowhere in Canada, Western Europe or Australia do people have to wait in line for hours to vote.
Are there shorter lines in poverty areas dominated by Conservatives than Democrats? Genuinely curious.

[Will Hunting]

Are there shorter lines in poverty areas dominated by Conservatives than Democrats? Genuinely curious.
From the data I've seen, yes. The impoverished conservative areas are generally more rural and have shorter waiting times.

[ElNono]

:lmao Karrin's argument in a nutshell:

"Obvious he's not trying to suppress votes when he takes a fight against no-excuse absentee ballots to the Texas Supreme Court, issues an executive order to reduce dropboxes to one per county knowing it'll affect Democrat stronghold counties the most, fights vigorously to have the executive order upheld in court, tries to get curbside and drive through voting banned, and then tries to reduce the amount of early voting places in Harris County. After all, he did that one thing that makes voting a little easier!"

It's the global warming defense... "It's snowing outside! How can global warming be real?!?!"

[RandomGuy]

Honestly people just need to vote in person. Don't leave your vote in the hands of partisan courts and corrupt leadership.

That's what my wife and I did. It was a lot safer than I expected. In and out quickly, and a free disposable stylus for the touch screen. I am so keeping that souvenir.

[RandomGuy]

Are there shorter lines in poverty areas dominated by Conservatives than Democrats? Genuinely curious.


Second, Georgia has strict voting laws, and according to the Cost of Voting Index, a measure of how easy it is to vote in each state, those laws have gotten stricter since 2016. Our research shows that enacting stricter voting laws tends to hurt Democrats, too, which is factored into our estimates of the partisan baselines in each state.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/will-georgia-turn-blue/

[FrostKing]

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/will-georgia-turn-blue/
Do they state why? I could understand it being easier to set up voting booths in rural areas than urban. Maybe crime is a factor.

[RandomGuy]

Do they state why? I could understand it being easier to set up voting booths in rural areas than urban. Maybe crime is a factor.

No.

Democratic voting blocks including minorities tend to be poorer.

If you can't take time off work, you don't vote. If you can't afford the transportation costs... you don't vote.

[Ef-man]

No.

Democratic voting blocks including minorities tend to be poorer.

If you can't take time off work, you don't vote. If you can't afford the transportation costs... you don't vote.

Yes, good examples of voter suppression.

[boutons_deux]

Swamped with voter requests, the Texas secretary of state's office has become a focus of frustration

It took more than two months of waiting, calling and emailing the Texas secretary of state's office, but one Dripping Springs woman said earlier this week she and her sister finally received the mail-in ballot applications they requested

complaints about the secretary of state's office from other Texas voters —

tales of repeated phone calls and protracted frustration because

there is no transparent way to determine if mail-in ballot applications requests are being processed, or have gotten lost in the shuffle.

the state's top election administrator is being inundated with requests from Texans who want to vote by mail.

As of October 11, the secretary of state reported having mailed out 460,195 mail-in ballot applications since April 2020.

https://www.sacurrent.com/the-daily/archives/2020/10/17/swamped-with-voter-requests-the-texas-secretary-of-states-office-has-become-a-focus-of-frustration

so the Secy of State offices are on reduced staff because of the pandemic,

but TX denies voters mail-in ballots because fear of the pandemic is not sufficient reason to request vote by mail :lol

[Ef-man]

Swamped with voter requests, the Texas secretary of state's office has become a focus of frustration

It took more than two months of waiting, calling and emailing the Texas secretary of state's office, but one Dripping Springs woman said earlier this week she and her sister finally received the mail-in ballot applications they requested

complaints about the secretary of state's office from other Texas voters —

tales of repeated phone calls and protracted frustration because

there is no transparent way to determine if mail-in ballot applications requests are being processed, or have gotten lost in the shuffle.

the state's top election administrator is being inundated with requests from Texans who want to vote by mail.

As of October 11, the secretary of state reported having mailed out 460,195 mail-in ballot applications since April 2020.

https://www.sacurrent.com/the-daily/archives/2020/10/17/swamped-with-voter-requests-the-texas-secretary-of-states-office-has-become-a-focus-of-frustration

so the Secy of State offices are on reduced staff because of the pandemic,

but TX denies voters mail-in ballots because fear of the pandemic is not sufficient reason to request vote by mail :lol


But anyone in Texas can request a ballot claiming they will be out of area and they cannot be question about that. Law really has no teeth is gamed right.

[DarrinS]

:lmao


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[Will Hunting]

:lmao


1317559648103313409 ElNono this is why Karrin is every bit as much of a MAGAtard as Derp/Chris. He follows the same retards on twitter who they follow (i.e. this transgender freak Robbie Starbucks).

[DarrinS]

ElNono this is why Karrin is every bit as much of a MAGAtard as Derp/Chris. He follows the same retards on twitter who they follow (i.e. this transgender freak Robbie Starbucks).

I don't follow anyone on Twitter

[DarrinS]

I don't have a Twitter account or FB account

[ElNono]

ElNono this is why Karrin is every bit as much of a MAGAtard as Derp/Chris. He follows the same retards on twitter who they follow (i.e. this transgender freak Robbie Starbucks).

He's just trying to trigger dem libs, tbh

[Will Hunting]

He's just trying to trigger dem libs, tbh
Same thing Derp/Chris say. Time for people to stop believing there's good conservatives and bad conservatives. They're all pieces of shit.

[RandomGuy]

I don't follow anyone on Twitter

Nah. You just robotically post shit from the propaganda diet you consume on a daily basis, seemingly unable to tell truth from conservative fantasy.

[Ef-man]

Just in: Supreme Court rejects GOP attempt to require mail-in ballots be received by Election Day in Pennsylvania

[Ef-man]

Ben Ginsberg, the single most prominent Republican election lawyer in the country, who, in a scathing piece published Sunday by The Washington Post, called out President Donald Trump (and his legal team) for engaging in a widespread attempt to suppress votes in the 2020 election under the guise of sniffing out voter fraud.


https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/02/politics/ben-ginsberg-voter-suppression-voter-fraud-2020-election/index.html

[Ef-man]

A Nevada judge rejected a GOP lawsuit seeking to halt early vote counting in Clark County, which includes Las Vegas, over stringency of signature-matching computer software and how closely observers can watch votes being counted.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/02/politics/nevada-las-vegas-signature-lawsuit/index.html

[Isitjustme?]

Man i didnt think Democrats had a chance in hell to win Texas but the way the state party there is acting they sure scared as fuck :lol

[RandomGuy]

Man i didnt think Democrats had a chance in hell to win Texas but the way the state party there is acting they sure scared as fuck :lol

They may be looking at the actual data. Splits gives Texas to Biden.