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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDan Patrick's voter suppression meant giving them envelops with the wrong address on them.
Partisan tactic by Lt. Gov. Dan Patricks campaign delays thousands of requests for mail-in ballots from Texas voters
Patricks mass mailing urging voters to apply for mail-in ballots included return envelopes addressed to the Texas secretary of states office. The applications are supposed to be sent to local offices, but Patricks campaign says voters dont trust election officials in Democratic counties.
Thousands of applications for mail-in ballots submitted by Texas voters have been delayed and some voters may ultimately not receive ballots because Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick's campaign instructed eligible voters to send requests for absentee ballots to the Texas secretary of states office instead of their local elections offices.
A mass mailing by Patrick went out to Republican voters across the state in January, ahead of the March primary, and included a two-page letter emblazoned with the seal of his office encouraging voters to submit the requests following three easy steps. The problem was the third step, which instructed voters to return the applications in an enclosed reply envelope that was addressed to the state.
The lieutenant governors campaign said it used the secretary of state's address because many Republican voters are rightly suspicious of Blue County election officials.
The decision to direct return mail to the Secretary of State (SOS), someone who is trusted and respected, gave voters an added layer of comfort, Allen Blakemore, a campaign consultant for Patrick, wrote in an email.
2naSalit
(86,622 posts)Isn't that a federal crime?
KPN
(15,645 posts)Doremus
(7,261 posts)Couldn't have planned a Repuke disenfranchisement campaign any better than that.
Liberal In Texas
(13,553 posts)That's the only group he sent the applications to. He probably thought that since local election officials couldn't send out apps under the new fascist law that he would be screwing dems.
Posted yesterday and didn't garner much interest:
https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100216368170
UTUSN
(70,695 posts)voters"?