Houston lawsuit seeks to halt looming “Death Star” bill

  • Bautznersenf@feddit.de
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    If Texans could grow a pair and actually start voting. Team red is no longer in the majority, I’m sure of it. The only thing holding the state back is voter apathy.

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      The only thing holding the state back is voter apathy.

      Don’t forget the rampant voter suppression.

    • 丂イ乇尺レノ刀ム@lemmy.world
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      That and they purposely make it difficult to vote down here to dissuade people even more from voting. I do my part every time to try to get these pieces of garbage out, and somehow it just stays the same. It’s so frustrating.

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        I’m a leftist in a red area. I waited 5 minutes to vote. There were dozens of voting booths, just as many volunteer workers, and it’s a relatively unpopulated area. The only reason I even had to wait was because two or three people ahead of me there was an argument about needing ID. There were also three or four voting locations within a 15 minute drive.

        My buddy lives downtown. The entire city only had a few voting locations. It was a two hour wait, for like six voting booths. It was also outside of downtown proper, and was a 30 minute walk away from the nearest rail line.

        They know that people won’t want to wait longer than their lunch break. They know that people in the city don’t have cars, and will rely on the train to get where they’re going. Yeah, voter suppression is in full swing.

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        It’s really not that difficult. You’ve usually got at least a week of early voting available.

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          It’s very different depending on where you live. It’s easy for me to vote too, but that doesn’t make ye problems elsewhere imaginary.

    • sarsaparilyptus@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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      Don’t forget all the fifth-columnists who keep on trying to convince young people that voting can’t change anything. They’re desperate to push that ideal, and why not? It’s worked for decades.