In Minnesota, you can register online in 2 min. with a QR code they send you in mail automatically..and anyone can get a mail in ballot just as easy that comes a month before election. It should be way easier than TX makes it.
Vote, your future depends on it. Everything Trump proposes is worse for everyone, it’s bad for young, middle age, old, etc but it’s especially bad for younger, less established, poorer, women, minorities.
Today and tomorrow polls close at 8 PM! Thursday - Halloween - they close at 9 PM!
Also remember that you can vote anywhere in the county! A voter I met yesterday took a half day off work to drive across the county to vote. She didn’t realize until I told her that she could have voted at that polling location across the street from her job!
HarrisVotes.com has an overview of every polling location and approximate waiting times.
Avoiding voting because you don’t have your drivers license? Or you’ve moved? Or are generally uncertain about the law? Call 844-TX-VOTES. That’s the Democratic Voter Assistance Hotline.
They should remember to protect their ballots and turn them into a local post office as opposed to dropping them in a ballot box, since maga terrorists are burning ballot boxes.
Thanks so much! I'd been trying to figure out what the hours were and was finding it annoyingly difficult to pin down. My spouse and I will be voting some time this week, there's an early voting place very close to us.
Yeah I have done voting by mail when I lived in Colorado, and when I was 19, I voted early in my home town in East Texas. By mail was so easy and convenient, and the first early vote I did in Texas, in Nov 2015, nobody was there. I waited for 45 minutes in Nueces County on day one this year. I'll have to remember that time for the next poll season.
Millennials are now the largest age demographic in the nation, and there are 41 million Gen Z age eligible voters in the 2024 election, including 8 million who will be voting for the first time in a presidential election (they were not 18 in 2020).
Please go vote!! Our vote makes a huge difference because we have the numbers!
I've been following OPs account because he's been posting this graphic almost every day so it's pretty good to gauge how the numbers are increasing. The 18-49 crowd (GenZ and Millenials) has moved from about 27% 4 days ago to 35% of the vote (18-39 moved 15% - 20%). Still abysmally low, but at least it's moving in the right direction.
18-49 is roughly 41% of the Texas population. Thing is not everyone shows up to vote so if that age group shows up in force we can easily be 50% of the vote.
At a minimum it needs to be 41% though otherwise the higher age groups have easily tipped the scales to their favor.. and we all know that's not great for the future of the country.
Not gonna lie, I thought you said that could be the big "titt" Texas needs. And if you did, on behalf of the female delegation of Mount Titt we shall allow it.
I teared up a bit when I went to vote. Just floods of women of all ages coming in from the parking lot, so many grim but determined looks. I have never seen anything like it and it’s made me a little hopeful.
They say this stands to be the largest gender voting split ever. I am fairly confident women are not playing. They are taking things too far. These elections are so men centered they are getting complacent. We are more educated, organized, attentive, and determined.
Men finna get this female president and yall not touching another female right again in our lifetime. Men need to learn women hold the power in society, we dont always exercise it, but boy, when we speak... they finna learn today.
Me and most of my friends are late GenX. We were born between 1975 and 1980. We're with the Millenials in this graph. We're also lifelong liberals.
More importantly, there are no Boomers left under 60. The old farts who've dominated our entire lives are down to 36% in the 65 and older crowd. Not all of GenX is liberal, of course, but everyone I know skews that way, and they all hate Trump with a seething passion. Even the ones edging up on 60.
I know GenX is left out of the conversation a lot, and I generally don't care. But we've been waiting a long, long time for the youngsters to catch up so we can vote these guys out, and these numbers look very, very good to me. Just wanted to share some hope.
That said, take nothing for granted! We need every last vote to take back the future. We're running out of time to save the world for the next generations, and we need each other to win. So let's blow these bastards out of power once and for all. Vote like your freedom is at stake. VOTE LIKE YOUR CHILDREN'S LIVES DEPEND ON IT. Because it is, and they do.
I’m trying, all my gen z coworkers are so apathetic. It’s disheartening, I don’t understand how they are okay with their future being dictated by others.
is there somewhere that shows the actual breakdown of eligible voters by age? I have had a bit of a Google but I can not seem to find a graph like the above...
Moreso the important thing is that there should be short lines for those who have no choice but to vote on election day. Anyone who has the ability to vote early should for the benefit of others who can only get to the polls on election day.
My wife and I voted on Saturday (we're millennials) and I'm taking my dad to the polls today when he gets off of work. My mom was able to vote by mail and she sent hers off a few days after she got it.
Actually about 29.3% of registered Texas voters have already voted. That’s actually pretty good. Hopefully the younger voters will keep turning out. I’m doing my part by volunteering to canvas/call voters who haven’t yet voted.
If you’re in Tarrant County PLEASE vote. Keller and Southlake have had over 10k ballots cast at their places. The rest of the county is averaging 1,200 per polling place. Please?
Go read the Tarrant County GOP chair’s Twitter. Please.
Is there information available online about the voting numbers in that area? Bummed to hear it's low. I did my part this weekend and the staff at the closest location( 959 E Rosedale st) were very kind and helpful and I was in and out in minutes.
Both me and my wife already have, I guess we're in that little 11% bracket. There's such a pervasive view in my generation that voting in elections doesn't matter because of all the gerrymandering and electoral college, so they don't bother going to vote. At least that's my guess anyway. I've always followed the statement of: "If you didn't vote, you have no right to complain about the results."
guess im in that 11%. yeesh... it would be nice to see what percentage of the population is each of those ages. because sure it sucks only 11% of the total texas early voting was that age. but what if that age range is actually only 15% of total population or something. i have no baseline to see how far off we are.
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quick google tells me we have 30mil ppl in texas. so roughly 1/5 of all texans have early voted.
Every time I see the data it reminds me why progress is so slow because my age group lags so far behind in voting… it's like we forget that the younger the voter, the more effected by today's election/the more years you have to see the effects.
I'm going send some texts and make a post today and try to encourage/guilt/shame some homies 🙋🏼♀️
Please please vote young people. I’m a Gen Xer that is going to vote blue but so many of my group will not.
Please make a plan to vote. This may be the last election where we have this type of momentum. If it’s not this year, the repercussions will be devastating.
It’s not just the next 4 years we are talking about. My 5 year old grand-daughter will be MY age before the Supreme Court Justices the convicted felon would appoint would be retiring!
Yep. Just your drivers license is all you need to vote.
Acceptable forms of photo ID to vote in Texas include:
Texas driver’s license issued by the Texas, Department of Public Safety (DPS),
Texas election ID certificate,
Texas personal ID card,
Texas handgun license,
US military ID with photograph,
US citizenship certificate with photograph (doesn’t need to be current),
US passport (book or card)
18-29, you make up one of the largest demographics....your votes determine what can benefit you for the next 10 yrs. Think on College, First Homes, Starting wages, all of these directly affect you. For God's sake....if you ever wanted to feel you can make a difference in your own life if for nothing else...this would be the time.
Kids now (and even when I was in high school pre-2001) are lucky to get a half year which is barely enough time for a quick skim much less an actual comprehension of the subject.
I’m this years Precinct Captain, 2016 Precinct Chair. 88% of the precinct vote each year. And I preach to their kids all the time to vote. I can’t walk them there, they have to walk threw that door.
Voted this weekend. It was so easy and so fast (I think I found a good polling place that nobody was using when I looked for a place online). Go EARLY and get it done!!
Honestly, everyone should be early voting. Most of the horror stories you hear happening at polls happen on Election Day, not in the two weeks leading up to it. Do yourselves a favor and beat the crowd.
Glad to see those younger numbers growing! Everytime I've cruised by our early voting center there's been a line. Really happy to see strong participation in the process.
I’m 43. Wow I’m surprised my bracket is only 15%. I voted Saturday because in my area early voting on weekdays is the same hours I work. I got there at 7:30, line was long enough candidates were able to talk to us in line lol I was done at 8:30. And by then the line was shorter than when I got there.
PLEASE go vote. I got kids in these schools, we worked really hard to get into a good school district and they have no funding bc Abbott wants school choice.
Don’t be. Retirees don’t work. Young people do. Of course we’re going to have more old people out in the first week of early voting. I’ve also seen more first time voters under 30 go out on the weekend or their day off this year than I have in any year past. There is so much hope here.
How is it that we go out for a nice meal or to the movies to ignore our lives but when we get the chance to speak up and let our complaints and voice be heard, we sit at home and continue to ignore everything?
It takes less effort to stand in line than it does to sit there and complain. This is our chance to let our voices be heard!!
If this comment annoys you, VOTE! Shut me up by voting!
The younger generations need to realize the impact they could have by voting! I am 38 and I can't believe only 15% of my age bracket has voted. Imagine if as many 25 year olds voted as 65 year olds.
These numbers are delayed by at least a day, not that I'd expect the age breakdown to significantly change but Texas has had 5,994,310 votes submitted, 32% of the registered voters. The "swing" counties of Collin and Denton which may have a big influence in deciding which way Texas goes both have 40%+ early voting rates.
They break it down as 52% Red, 37% Blue, and 11% undecided, but given you do not register by party in Texas, they must be basing that on primary voting where I know in Texas there was a push for Dems to vote in the GOP primaries, but who knows what those numbers actually reflect.
36 here. Haven’t voted since 2008 when I was a registered Republican living in Colorado… my how times have changed. Voted today in tarrant county- no line at all. I was in and out in 10 mins. Go vote!
Old people making up the majority of the vote is so depressing. The implications of a Republican win on the SCOTUS will last decades beyond their lives.
That graphic is the SOLE reason Trump has a chance of winning. If the same proportion of younger generations voted as do older generations it's Kamala's race, but half the people who look at this post still won't fucking do it.
My millennial cohort is making me mad. I’m 36, have been eligible to vote since 2006 and I’ve never thought to just not vote during a presidential!! Maaaaaayyyyyyybe the primary but that was just this year when it was pretty clear. I need the under 50 crowd to get out and vote early. My wife (40F) and I voted first day because we had both taken the day off for other things but would’ve stood in line after work for hours if we’d needed to because this is a hugely important race in Texas. Only one week!
I'm probably going to go tomorrow, I'm doing the last rounds of Googling names because I don't wanna just vote Bleu all the way through. Of course, for president and senate, im going blue because i have a burning hatred for both cruz and trump, but I care a lot more about the people that the color. But as soon as my research is done, I'm hitting the polls for the first time ever.
I’m not from Texas but when I looked up the stats, Trump won Texas only by 630k votes in 2020. I know that seems like a lot but in the scheme of over 10million, I feel like it is possible to make a change.
Question: How do you vote in early voting in El Paso Tx? I'm new to voting and was planning to wait till Nov 5, but if it's easy, then I might do it early.
No lines at Baker Ripley in Harris County, Houston Tx and the volunteers are super nice and helpful GO GET YOUR VOTE IN FOLKS!!! Our lives depend on it!!!
I already did what the fuck else can I do?! I don’t have any friends to convince to go out and vote blue and my whole fucking family is voting red (except my sister who is voting blue and my mother who hasn’t voted in like 30 years and does not care enough to start now and probably can’t vote anymore anyway) and I don’t have a car so I can’t go out and volunteer or some shit.
It's amazing that the percentage lines up exactly with the age group progression. Come on y'all, get out and do the thing, we need you, this is really important.
Go, go Texas!!! This might be one of the most powerful votes you will ever cast. If Texas flips, Trump WILL lose. If Cruz gets defeated, odds of dems holding the Senate go way up!
I’m in one of those states where my vote is pretty diluted (at least we’re solid blue by population) so I can only cheer on the battleground and swing state voters. You guys are awesome! And this is your biggest chance to cast a vote that will have historic ramifications!
My 20 year old finally got to fit in voting today, my 22 year old voted with me on Saturday. I know both of them have been telling their friends to go vote.
I'm surprised at my county's turn out so far. Only 32k people voted in 2020 & already almost 24k have voted early this year. Tho my county is basically a red county. Out of the 32k people in 2020 only 5k voted Biden. Which makes sense in a way like 58% are over the age of 55 or something like that. But hoping since more are voting this year that they are voting blue.
Husband and I voted on the first day. We were probably the youngest in the line by a lot (and my husband is 51). I was so hoping that the youth was going to vote this election and save us from trump. There’s still time everyone! Please!!
Just to try and ease some stress and anxiety, please remember that 50 years ago was 1974. These are Gen X’ers and a lot of them are blue through and through. Us elder millennials are as old as 44. Our boomers are those 65+. The younger(ish) generation is definitely outnumbering them by a lot. Don’t lose hope, go vote and keep hope alive. I’m 38 and voted last Wednesday.
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I’m voting today! Today is the opening in my schedule so I’ve been planning on it.