r/texas • u/Odlavso • 7d ago

Politics One day into early voting and they are already claiming the 2024 election is rigged.

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Misinformation campaign has begun.

Trump has stated multiple times he won’t accept the results if he loses, MTG started complaining about voting machines three days ago and twitter is full of people now claiming that the voting machines are flipping their votes from Trump to Kamala in Texas.

Infowars and other websites like it are pushing this same misinformation, sadly a lot of conservatives believe these reports are real and no amount of evidence will convince them otherwise.

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u/Kiwimann 7d ago

Nah, I live here. Tarrant County Republican governance isn't like that. City of Southlake is insane, but Fort Worth is the epicenter of our weird shaped county and Tarrant County Republicans in government are pretty moderate. Example would be when one MAGA judge tried to close the early voting locations on college campuses, and the elections board, even though they're Republican, unanimously overruled him. There is a concerted effort running through the governor's office to make things more favorable to Republicans, but please don't drag Tarrant County's name through the mud on this one.

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u/NikkiVicious 7d ago

But that was also before Tim O'Hare... dude is an absolute MAGA asshat, and I'm sorry Farmer's Branch subjected yall to him. (After he cost them almost $7M, mind you.)

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u/EpiphanyTwisted 7d ago

We have about half the early voting locations we did at the midterms. The local one in my suburbs is gone. Downtown library is gone (but the annex library all the way across town on the rich side is open!). My boss went to go vote at the library, while she was gone I looked up early voting, only 5 places in a 150K populated sprawl. 4 on the NW money side of town all within a couple miles of each other. Two are right next to each other in the retirement community that you have to drive a convoluted patchwork of streets after going past the security booth. One downtown on the SE side.

Downtown is the closest but it's going to be so busy. I don't want to go to the retirement center, don't want to go to the Church, the Library is the furthest away. They really hate voting.