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(18,008 posts)Rebl2
(13,471 posts)paleotn
(17,884 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,965 posts)Septua
(2,252 posts)..that's what a lot of voters want and they are mostly worried about the price of gas. However, we know that bunch comprises a minority and if everyone who wants to vote BLUE gets to vote and has his/her vote counted, BLUE will win.
Lonestarblue
(9,958 posts)Im sure Abbott and his team already have a plan in place for holding back some vote counting to see how close Beto is to winning. Theyll disqualify enough ballots, mostly the mail ballots because theyve created ballots so confusing that many voters do not know where they need to sign on both the ballot and the secret unmarked spot on the envelope its to be mailed in. Plus, with the Postal Service no longer date stamp all mail, unscrupulous Republican clerks can simply use zip codes for Democratic ares to say the ballots were not received by the deadline.
Voting in person is much more likely to have your vote counted, though I know many people cannot do this. I suspect the state may still have some of the old voting machines that do not have paper backups, and those have always been suspect. Travis County had those during the last Senate election, and Democratic voters took photos of the screens showing that a party-line vote flipped only the vote for Beto to Cruz. Ive never been convinced that Cruz actually won that race because a lot of party-line voters do not take the time to scroll through every vote to make sure it actually got registered correctly. Fortunately we now have new voting machines with paper backup and its easy to review the votes prior to printing the ballot.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,260 posts)Roe, Roe, Roe your vote
against theocracy!
Republicans revoke your rights
and kill democracy!
betsuni
(25,380 posts)DeeDeeNY
(3,354 posts)They are either too lazy to delve into the issues or else willfully ignorant. There is no other way to explain them. The best chance for Dems to win is for them to vote, which many dont do.
KPN
(15,637 posts)causation.
All of them say no to science.
All of them say no to reason before or in tandem with belief.
kimbutgar
(21,056 posts)Any venue that has young people. Like outside bars, concerts, shopping areas etc.