Texas is really good at gerrymandeirng
Do this lot of people vote?
cerement@slrpnk.net 4 months ago
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.
djsaskdja@reddthat.com 4 months ago
51% win for Biden seems insanely optimistic right now.
cerement@slrpnk.net 4 months ago
it would take so little for Biden to rake in the votes but the Democrats in general seem to be doing everything they can to embarrass themselves even worse than 2016 …
stoly@lemmy.world 4 months ago
That’s a cop out. There are plenty of terrible people in that state.
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
DaBPunkt@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I will never get why you have to Register at all
AA5B@lemmy.world 4 months ago
There are actual checks and balance to ensure you’re a citizen and you vote at most once
DaBPunkt@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Where I live you just get a letter some weeks before the election. With that letter you can vote at the place that is named in the letter (or anywhere in the same city). If you lose the letter you can still vote with your id-card, but only at the place that was named in the letter.
Easy, isn’t it?
fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
It make sense if it were like the TSA to be honest, bring everything you need to vote or preregister for a faster experience. Would also help if was voting month(s) instead of day so people could comfortably vote.
anlumo@lemmy.world 4 months ago
That‘s one of the consequences of not having citizen IDs, because they’re communist.
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.