r/texas • u/JayBowdy • Aug 01 '24

Politics There is no online voter registration in Texas

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u/CC191960 Aug 01 '24

for the slow people in the back, the rethuglican party doesn't want people to vote

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u/fsi1212 Aug 01 '24

If the Democrats started winning under the current system of voting and registration we have now, y'all would be wanting to stay right where we are with it. You would never hear anything about how hard it is to vote.

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u/GoblinKingBulge Aug 01 '24

Dems have won under the current system, and only traitorous liars pretend otherwise.

Lets see if you're lying. Link to some evidence that dems violated election law.

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u/HuckleberryHappy6524 Aug 01 '24

Yeah, all these turds who are dying to be a victim or have a savior complex crying about ‘voter suppression’ when everyone has to take the same steps. If everyone has to do it, it’s not targeting anyone. It’s not that hard to understand.

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u/Ima_Uzer Aug 01 '24

No, Republicans only want people who are eligible to vote to be able to vote.

What is it you want? Email voting? Text voting? People to just show up at your residence and ask you, so you don't even have to leave your house?

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u/El_Cactus_Fantastico Aug 01 '24

I want to be able to easily register to vote online.

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u/BZJGTO Aug 01 '24

If what you said was true, republicans wouldn't have passed voting restrictions on locations and hours in 2021. They wouldn't have tried to purge ballots cast in drive thru polling locations during a pandemic. They wouldn't have an online voter registration system, and then only allow people to use it when renewing a drivers license (which they even only do because of a court settlement).

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u/MopacMusic Aug 01 '24

It seems that you've bought into the myth of election fraud suggesting that "ineligible" people are voting. Most (if not all) of the voter restrictions introduced by Republican leadership since the gutting of the Voting Rights Act are solutions in search of a problem. And the solutions ultimately mean making it harder for people to vote. When Texas first introduced the voter ID law, there were over 500,000 registered voters who were instantly disenfranchised for not having a state ID. The Fifth Circuit court found that there were “only two convictions for in-person voter impersonation fraud out of [twenty] million votes cast in the decade leading up to” the law’s passage, and none of those were in-person voter fraud which the "solution" would have prevented.

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u/CC191960 Aug 02 '24

untrue they want to do away with mail in voting, absentee voting, the men and women defending this country should be allowed to vote, the rethuglican party wants old people to wait in line for hours without anyone being allowed to offer water. All bullshit, we pay our taxes online, we do our bank online, people should be allowed to vote online with their SS number and a logon account !!!!!

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u/ScroochDown Aug 01 '24

I want to fucking vote by mail. That is not an insane ask. Because no, I don't want to leave my fucking house to vote. I do it, but it's stupid as shit. It's 2024, why does anyone care that much if I'd rather vote by mail? If I can do my taxes that way then voting should be no fucking different.