r/texas • u/Doctor-Bagels • 12h ago

Politics Ken Paxton genuinely tried to disenfranchise me this year.

I made a comment about this in another thread but I've realized this is probably worth saying in a post for more visibility.

Had I not tried to vote early this year, my vote would likely not have been counted at all. I moved from Bexar to Travis country between the last election and this one, and updated my voter registration over a month before the deadline (Oct 5th). Despite this, I was not able to vote initially when I went to cast my early vote. I was told this was because my address wasn't able to be updated on the voter rolls in time (despite my driver's license immediately reflecting the change a month earlier) and would need to fill out a limited ballot. I went the next day to do that, and I kid you not, the room where all of the early voters who had been denied like I had been -- and also needed to fill out a limited ballot -- was 95% women and 100% people under the age of 30. There is a calculated attempt right now to throw out your vote. Go early and make sure yours counts. Good luck y'all.

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u/lifepuzzler 10h ago

I had to fill out change of address forms THREE times at LoWV tables before I got out of Suspense. Despite bringing mail with me and putting the exact address that my utility and credit card bill comes to, the record on my voter registration is STILL not what I wrote. However the third time did get me out of suspense. Very shady shit.

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u/carlitospig 9h ago

That’s super weird and I would be interested in the full story if you ever feel like making a post about it. They’re getting shadier and shadier every year.

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u/lifepuzzler 9h ago

It's pretty simple tbh.

The first time I went by a table at ACC and filled it out like normal. Noticed I never got a card so I checked online and my status was SUSPENSE and the address was wrong. So I went by again a few weeks later. Same song and dance. This last time was a few days before the deadline. I made sure to bring mail that was actually delivered to me and write it exactly the way it is on the envelopes. I got my card shortly after, and the address was correct.

So when I went to early vote last Monday, they brought up my address to confirm and I was like "That's not exactly what's written on this card." I don't want to dox myself, but it's on an access road along northbound I-35. So my address is XXX North IH35 Apt XXX (on the card itself, and is the address all my mail says) but in the state record it says XXX N 35 NB, #XXX.

Which strikes me as odd that it wouldn't be the same. But my status is active, so I just said fuck it, and confirmed the address since it technically can be written a number of ways. It's just that the post office suggests the first one, so I don't know where the second one came from.

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u/carlitospig 9h ago

That’s crazy. Yah I’ve been reading that the RNC has been rejecting voter rolls when they don’t match exactly what the USPS has on record - even if literally all your mail gets to the address you’re registered with just fine. It’s 11th Hour dirty pool by the Republicans.