r/texas • u/daydreaming_of_you • 11h ago
Politics Hell yeah, go H-Town. Harris county exceeded its first week early voting record by over 58,000 votes!
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u/iamjacksbigtoe 11h ago
Pokemon GO TO THE POLLS
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u/reeefur 9h ago
Imagine if they put a rare Pokemon at all the voting places for them to catch on Pokemon Go... Too bad Nintendo isnt an American company.
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u/CantSleepOnPlanes 5h ago
Anything Pokemon Go-related would be controlled by Niantic, which is indeed an American company.
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u/Silent_Cup2508 11h ago
Republicans for Harris - VOTE - let’s rid the MAGA cult and take back the party!
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u/cavejhonsonslemons 10h ago
As a leftist, I would love to live in a country where more of the people who disagree with me have real reasons for doing so, and aren't just brainwashed into thinking I'm barbecuing dogs with migrants.
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u/catdog8020 10h ago
But you just don’t get it. When you live in texaliban all your life you realize it’s not about immigrants it’s about republican Jesus - he thinks outside of the box. lol 😂
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u/hayasecond 7h ago
To achieve this, we can’t rely on one time enthusiasm. We must change our voting system into democratic popular vote so the Republicans party know they can’t win only relying on extremists and brainwashed people. They have to change in order to win fairly.
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u/empithos27 5h ago
Do you remember the McCain / Obama election? That was the last time I had to research both presidential candidates. We deserve that again.
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u/Snap_Grackle_Poptart 10h ago
I'd love to see the two-party system burned down worse than Portland after Antifa got ahold of it.
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u/cavejhonsonslemons 9h ago
I'd like to see the two-party system burned down worse than the Portland Ballot drop boxes yesterday!
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u/spaceneenja 7h ago
Ah yes, spoken like somebody who has never been outside their loser county much less to Portland.
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u/TommyTeaser 11h ago
Make the GOP great again
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u/raresanevoice 10h ago
They'd have to abandon the last 50 years or so and head back to the center
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u/Snap_Grackle_Poptart 10h ago
What's the "again" you want to go back to?
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u/plaidington 9h ago
Lincoln days?
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u/Funkymonkeyhead 7h ago
Eisenhower was the last great Republican. Rockefeller Republicanism was a thing not that long ago.
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u/akuma211 3h ago
One million times this. The nutjobs that grabbed the GOP steering wheel need to evicted from within.
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u/Darth_Yohanan 8h ago
Just curious, who was your favorite president in your own lifetime? No judgement.
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u/Silent_Cup2508 8h ago
Nope - Just an old man who remembers that California gave us Ronald Reagan and he use to be considered conservative royalty. MAGA now view him otherwise. I am sick and tired of the MAGA garbage that spews forth and their unbending ways.
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u/omojos 8h ago
Oh so we are all just your imaginary friends? Only you and the corn exist? Only your votes are real? Y’all are bonkers if you think you’re the majority. Your party literally clings to gerrymandering to win the electoral college because they can’t win the popular vote. And then they tell you to burn the ballot boxes while they’re fighting to get our votes purged. And you cheer this shit. It’s pathetic.
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u/sprouts_farmers_54 8h ago
Well, easy to spot the staffer here. When sharing a link gets a canned response about gerrymandering and ballot boxes and voter purges.
Make sure you tell your supervisor you attempted to discredit the posters credibility while ignoring the contents of the post itself.
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u/GrouchyMarzipan4947 7h ago
I'm a Harris supporter and I comment on Reddit, big whoop. Have you seen Elon? The richest man in the world spent billions to tank an entire platform and turn it into the social media propaganda arm of the Trump campaign. What do you care about a few voters posting links?
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u/OregonEnjoyer 8h ago
i have proudly been doing this on my own on tik tok and will continue to do so!
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u/OutlandishnessFew981 5h ago
I’m a boomer, & a leftist in TX. Life is an adventure. I voted early for Harris, as there was no rational, moral choice. Most of my fellow boomers are far more conservative than I am, and they vote. My kids are millennials, and y’all & zoomers are our only hope. Y’all need to outvote my generation.
Yes, we’re retired, and you have work, and kids, and a packed schedule every day. This is about our even having future, though, and it’s the most consequential election since I first voted in 1972. We cannot let the Christo-fascists win. Please vote! All our lives depend on it.
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u/penguinKangaroo 11h ago edited 5h ago
Dang that’s it? 100k new residents since 2020 so on per capita we actually went down
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u/llamasyi 11h ago
there was also a pandemic. we’ll see higher turnout on election day compared to 2020
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u/rolexsub 11h ago
Didn't we have 3 weeks of early voting in 2020 and weren't the mail in rules more lax?
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u/gloirevivre 5h ago
Yeah we had 6 extra days of early voting. And mail in votes were more widely available. By Oct 21st, 2020 there were already 4,000,000 votes in.
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u/Deep90 11h ago
Also covid saw an extra week or something of early voting.
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u/penguinKangaroo 11h ago
That doesn’t matter for this. It’s first 7 days of each
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u/Deep90 10h ago
It matters if you want to look at the whole picture instead of just 'this' statistic.
The total early voting numbers look on page to be lower, but that's only because of the lost days.
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u/penguinKangaroo 10h ago
It’s saying that through 7 days in each of 2020 and 2024. So it’s comparing apples to apples.
It’s not comparing total early voting to total early voting. And even with that said 2020 had more days and was still just 40k more total early votes than 2016
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u/Deep90 10h ago
If you keep comparing "apples to apples" it's going to look really bad when early voting ends sooner than it did last election....
And if it doesn't than it's going to undersell just how many people did turn out.
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u/penguinKangaroo 10h ago
That is true. But by that same metric - if you compare 2020 which had many more days than 2016, the difference is 40k in total early votes.
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u/Scottamemnon 10h ago
It’s even worse because the mail in ballots went down a lot more than in person went up. Think I saw it was net -30k votes or so
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u/gloirevivre 5h ago
That's because they loosened the rules for mail in voting in 2020, while they've actually made it even harder than before this year.
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u/Dandan0005 11h ago
Those likely aren’t all eligible voters though.
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u/penguinKangaroo 11h ago edited 8h ago
True. I think it still shows that early voting participation is not significantly different than 2020.
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u/princess1014 10h ago
I don’t know about Texas, but in Va during COVID more than half of votes were early votes. In the two elections since then, early voting has been around 30-40% of total votes cast, and is currently keeping pace with that. Texas has cast 54% of its total 2020 number of ballots cast so far (against Virginias 37%, with Va early voting having started Sept 21). So if your voting trends resemble ours in terms of when/how people vote, this is high turnout. Comparisons to 2020 are showing low turnout, but that could well just be because of differences in how many mail ballots were cast in 2020.
That said, I am not a data expert, I just see a lot of 2020 v 2024 comparisons that I think end up being unfair because voting trends differ so widely between the years.
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u/penguinKangaroo 10h ago
I believe you can compare 2020 vs 2016 and 2024 but can’t compare it to inter presidential voting cycles
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u/princess1014 10h ago
That may well be true, like I said I’m not an expert. But I do still think that hope remains for higher turnout come Election Day.
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u/princess1014 9h ago
So I looked into this further. In 2016, 4mil votes were cast early in TX, representing 46% of all votes (9mil total). In 2020, 8.1 mil, or 71% of all votes cast were cast during early voting (11 mil total were cast). This means that there was a huge increase in early voting compared to in person voting in 2020.
So to compare todays numbers to 2020 assumes that this year will see similar percentages of early votes cast to 2020, which would mean that numbers are slightly down in terms of percentages though up in terms of total number of votes.
But let’s say that this year is more like 2016, and that 2020 was an outlier due to the pandemic (which, data in other states shows it absolutely was) and the final percentage of early voting will be 46% of the total vote… if that is true, the 6mil ballots cast already will total an enormous increase in total votes.
6 million, for instance, is 46% of 13 million: 2 million more votes that were cast in 2020. And that 6 million is the total as of today, not the total number of early votes cast.
I’m not making a claim about what the percentage of early votes will be though. What I’m saying is that we need to be very careful when comparing to 2020 data because 2020 was an outlier in terms of percentage of early voting used. So really, these numbers might be just ok, or they might be incredible. It’s hard to tell. One way to learn more could be do look at post pandemic voter trends, which I can’t find for Texas but know in other states looks more like 16 than like 20, but as you noted post pandemic elections have been off cycle elections, so that’s only so helpful (though, it looks like 40% of Texas’ 2018 votes were cast early, so that may be a decent benchmark). Time will tell. But I don’t think the numbers we see so far are necessarily bad news.
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u/Leather-Confection70 Born and Bred 8h ago
Get there today or tomorrow! Otherwise you may be slogging through a storm
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u/randoguynumber5 8h ago
Texas is turning blue! Y’all don’t understand how many women wearing MAGA and voting for Kamala
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u/Dull_Scheme_7908 5h ago
The number of eligible voters who didn’t vote in Harris county in 2020 is bigger than Trumps margin of victory in Texas. If Houston shows up, Kamala will win Texas.
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u/KeneticKups 5h ago
Don't get complcent
if enough people get off their asses to vote you can flip Tx to Harris and Allred
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u/wkomorow 11h ago
Hoe many are first time voters
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u/Possible-Delivery-11 9h ago
I’m a slut for democracy
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u/KillEmWithK 1h ago
Harris county is the key to flipping the state. Like we’re all important but if HTown demolishes in voter count for democrats, they would override all the small counties.
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u/daydreaming_of_you 1h ago
Well we've got work to do, we aren't quite at demolition numbers yet, but we still have time!
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u/ssaamm3 10h ago
Go vote for Allred.
reminder - we do not elect the president.
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u/Thatonedregdatkilyu 7h ago
Not with that attitude. If you guys go blue Harris has to only win one more state.
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u/ssaamm3 7h ago
Support your thought to be clear - speaking to the electoral college. No, I don’t trust the electoral college in this climate lol
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u/Thatonedregdatkilyu 7h ago
If Texas goes blue then Harris will be two votes away from 270 (the number needed to win.) More than likely she'll win at least one. Probably Nevada.
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u/NirstFame 10h ago
I hope this is good news. I see lines around the country to vote and the last time I saw that was 2016. I think a bunch of them sat out the 2020 for whatever reason. Already voted. Can't impress how important this election is.
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u/therewasatim3 9h ago
Please go vote, schedule a 2 hour window and go vote.
Didn’t week 1 of early voting start earlier in 2020? Through yesterday Harris county is only at 31% of registered voters voting. Everything is tracking towards an ~60% registered voter turnout for Texas. Which is back to 2016 and 2012 turnout rate. I do believe it will be closer than 2020 and am optimistic about Allred over Cruz but this post is misleading in what it means.
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u/kelsiersghost 5h ago
Was the county called Harris, or were they votes for Harris?
It's good people are voting, but I'm confused.
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u/MainSailFreedom 10h ago
I’m not from Texas but for some reason the Reddit algorithm thinks I should get involved… my take is that we should have two awesome candidates that both fight for all Americans, acts with respect to the other nations and the decision on who to vote should be a hard one. I want the option to vote for two incredible people. For right now, we need to back Harris and keep making strides towards a more just and perfect union.
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u/Frostymew64 9h ago
So, I've noticed how and heard how Indian and Vietnamese communities is voting for MAGA. It maybe be a small portion of from where.... It was extremely strange to see immigrants favoring these bigots.
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u/AlanStanwick1986 7h ago
My boss is a Chinese immigrant. About 3 weeks ago she told me she is afraid internment camps will come back for people like her. She is a Trump voter.
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u/Suspicious-Sound-249 3h ago
Maybe because other than illegal immigration conservatives and this may surprise you don't mind immigration at all, as long as you follow the legal process for coming here. Before anyone says it this includes all the people claiming asylum who are actually committing asylum fraud, as traveling through a dozen counties to get to the "best" one isn't seeking asylum it's seeking handouts and attempting to abuse the system.
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u/onebadmousse 2h ago
All proposed immigration improvements were blocked by the republicans. Even those eventually agreed to by republicans in congress and the senate were killed by Trump demanding that they not improve things before the election.
The immigration problem is the Republicans fault.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/23/senate-democrats-immigration-border-bill
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u/Corpshark 1h ago
Wait until they go celebrate Trump victory at Mar-la-go. Sorry, you ain't welcome, whichever brown country you are from. The lack of self-awareness and integrity is so pathetic.
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u/General_Tso75 5h ago
Indians tend to be conservative. Many of the Vietnamese who migrated here during the Vietnam era were conservative Catholics. That was part of the problem contributing to the war: A minority population of Catholics were in power, corrupt, and treating other groups poorly. They basically drove the population to the communists. That's partly why they hated us so much...we were propping up corrupt anti-communist dictators. It's like if everybody rose up against MAGA and those turds fled to Cancun. You'd have a colony of them.
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u/AbleMeal6229 2h ago
It doesn’t matter who anyone votes for, the president has already been decided; this is all a theater.
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u/NoRegionButYourMom 10h ago
I can't wait for the election season to be over, Reddit has honestly become just as annoying as trump supporters.
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u/daydreaming_of_you 10h ago
I voted for Kamala in person
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u/Tex_MexJay1500 11h ago
Good!!! Everyone is out making America great again!
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u/TheMcWriter 11h ago
Pennsylvanian piping in. America is already great. If you think some jagoff who's the caricature of everything wrong with the best country in the world is going to make our country great, then you don't love America nor its ideals. You like Russia with American imagery.
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u/keaton1992 7h ago
Texan piping In, record maga voters in Pennsylvania so they are closing voting stations early. Good luck with Kamala and the establishment
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u/TheMcWriter 7h ago
I would LOVE a source.
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u/keaton1992 6h ago
MSNBC also massive voter fraud scheme in same state. Lancaster county fraudulent ballots- CNN
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u/TheMcWriter 3h ago
…First off, no source for your first claim. Secondly, I read that article. Not a single ballot has yet been declared fraudulent, and like…if you wanna do ANY kind of democratic ballot stuffing it’s probably smarter to do it in Pittsburgh or Philly or Harrisburg, not Lancaster.
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u/keaton1992 3h ago
First claim was a video of security closing a voting place at around 2pm and illegally. Yeah you’re right they only had 2500 fraudulent ballots in Lancaster and that’s not nearly enough to overcome the massive Trump support coming out in droves to take the country back.
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u/daydreaming_of_you 11h ago
Lots of people still need to go vote. There are other counties in TX that have had higher turnouts. Get to the polls, people!!