Comment on Texas power prices briefly soar 1,600% as a spring heat wave is expected to drive record demand for energy

• bstix@feddit.dk ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Do this lot of people vote?

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  • PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They do, but Texas is one of the most difficult states to register to vote. Voter suppression is real and by design.

    This explains it well: Texas’s Voter-Registration Laws Are Straight Out of the Jim Crow Playbook

    and Analysis: It’s harder to vote in Texas than in any other state

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    • DaBPunkt@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I will never get why you have to Register at all

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      • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        There are actual checks and balance to ensure you’re a citizen and you vote at most once

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      • anlumo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That‘s one of the consequences of not having citizen IDs, because they’re communist.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s really dumb. Here in Utah, you sign up online, and you can get a mail ballot online too. I have never actually voted in person, I just fill out my ballot and drop it in one of the collection bins a few days before the election. We can even track our ballot to ensure it gets processed.

      Why overcomplicate it? I don’t need to take time off to vote, and I can take my time researching the candidates. Voting should be easy.

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  • cerement@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Texas is really good at gerrymandeirng

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    • bstix@feddit.dk ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I wish it was possible to vote strongly enough for gerrymandering to be irrelevant.

      Another 51% win for Biden will certainly trigger another violent inssurection attempt and another 4 years of inaction.

      The best outcome would be a landslide victory if only to show the republican voters that their ideas are not supported by the general public.

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      • djsaskdja@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        51% win for Biden seems insanely optimistic right now.

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    • stoly@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s a cop out. There are plenty of terrible people in that state.

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