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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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  - 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?
    
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  - 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.
    
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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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