Last year, Texas led the nation in closing down voting locations

[Osiris-ODS]

You people consistently demonstrate that you lack even a modicum of independent thought, objectivity or curiosity. I know it's difficult for you to read past the headline of an article before racing over here and posting that it's the harbinger of the Trumpocalypse, but if you had read all of those things called "sentences" that are made up of all those words below the headline, you'd notice the following details, which the authors hid where you'd never think to look - right in the text of the article.

As the article states, the majority of the polling location closures were the result of Texas changing to "centralized, countywide polling places, called 'vote centers', which exist in almost a third of US states. Under countywide voting schemes, voters are no longer assigned to a polling place in their local precinct and can instead cast their ballot at any polling location in the county."

"Gee, I wonder what states those are?" is something a person with a normal working brain would ask. And if one were to take that inquiry a step further by opening their trusty internet browser and running a search, that person would learn that states that have switched to "vote centers" includes none other than the leftist utopia of California.

That fact in and of itself exposes this "voter suppression" narrative as pure political hackery, and you wouldn't be wrong for making that conclusion and ending your inquiry right there. But here's where genuine curiosity and objectivity come into play, as this conclusion can be objectively verified by digging a little more and lining up the vote center provisions in each state for comparison. California's vote center law (Cal. Elec. Code § 4005) requires there to be 1 vote center for every 10,000 registered voters in the three days before the election through election day, whereas the vote center roll-out in Texas, providing for "one polling place per 7,700 residents," is being called "voter suppression" by this article. This verifiable, objective evidence makes clear that the article is nothing more than a slam piece intended for consumption by impressionable lemmings who have no interest in questioning whether the headline is objectively accurate.

Lol you are such an idiot for buying that bullshit. But okay, let’s say they actually did this because it was “centralized”. Why does that somehow justify making a person drive 10s of miles when it was just easier to vote somewhere less than 5 miles away?

Oh thank you for reminding me. The very idea that having to drive 10 miles to vote when it was "just easier to vote somewhere less than 5 miles away" is tantamount to voter suppression for minorities is one of the most insulting, racially demeaning insinuations I've ever heard. I have yet to hear anyone justify that statement with anything that doesn't stink of racism when confronted, because the entire narrative is conditioned upon the implication that black people are too lazy and unmotivated to vote for their own interests in an election if they have to travel farther than a place that closed, simply because it was "easier" to vote at the other place. It's disgusting to me that this underlying narrative continues to be advanced using this sanitized boilerplate hypothetical.

Lol you assholes didn’t even think this voting crap was a problem prior to the GOP announcing for the first time in the 2012 election that it was. You just believe anything they tell you.

First of all, I have no idea what "this voting crap" is referring to, but your post is completely non-responsive to my post that you quoted. You either responded to the wrong post, or you're having an episode of word salad aphasia.

Obviously the narrative is that in person voting fraud is rampant. You blindly agree even though you didn’t know it was a “problem” until republicans told you it was. Here you are ranting about black people even though I never said anything about them lol

STUPID California has LESS sites then Texas.People have to travel FARTHER in California to reach a Voting center then they do in Texas.

Smart California, a leader in voting rights, mails a ballot to every registered voter in vote center counties. That is why CA is not accused of suppressing voters when they switch to vote centers.

Holy hell, it's like you guys take pleasure in posting half-baked inaccuracies. What's the deal, do you simply lack the curiosity required to confirm whether the information is correct before you post it, or do you just lack the skills necessary to research and understand the information? I mean seriously, your post would have been so easy to fact check with even rudimentary search engine knowledge.

First of all, California law does not require vote by mail ballots to be sent to "every registered voter in vote center counties." That only applies to counties that have shifted to the all-mail election model under the newly enacted California Voter's Choice Act which just went into effect as of January 1, 2020 -- which has nothing whatsoever to do with the reason the vote centers model was not previously criticized in California.

Moreover, Texas voters can request a vote by mail ballot for the November general election any time from January 1, 2020 through October 23, 2020. So again, notwithstanding the ridiculousness of the voter-suppression-by-inconvenience argument as to the vote centers model in the first place, the fact that Texas voters have almost 11 months to request a vote by mail ballot belies any plausible hint of voter suppression.

 

[Osiris-ODS]

The GOP managed to fool their idiotic base that actual in-person voting fraud is “rampant”, but how does one justify them closing actual voting locations? Obviously it’s to keep minorities from voting at all regardless of what ID they have in their possession because the GOP are fascist pieces of shit. Obviously white republican voters are okay with it. All that matters is that they win I guess. Either that, or they just believe anything their GOP masters tell them. Both seem equally likely.

Texas closes hundreds of polling sites, making it harder for minorities to vote | US news | The Guardian

You people consistently demonstrate that you lack even a modicum of independent thought, objectivity or curiosity. I know it's difficult for you to read past the headline of an article before racing over here and posting that it's the harbinger of the Trumpocalypse, but if you had read all of those things called "sentences" that are made up of all those words below the headline, you'd notice the following details, which the authors hid where you'd never think to look - right in the text of the article.

As the article states, the majority of the polling location closures were the result of Texas changing to "centralized, countywide polling places, called 'vote centers', which exist in almost a third of US states. Under countywide voting schemes, voters are no longer assigned to a polling place in their local precinct and can instead cast their ballot at any polling location in the county."

"Gee, I wonder what states those are?" is something a person with a normal working brain would ask. And if one were to take that inquiry a step further by opening their trusty internet browser and running a search, that person would learn that states that have switched to "vote centers" includes none other than the leftist utopia of California.

That fact in and of itself exposes this "voter suppression" narrative as pure political hackery, and you wouldn't be wrong for making that conclusion and ending your inquiry right there. But here's where genuine curiosity and objectivity come into play, as this conclusion can be objectively verified by digging a little more and lining up the vote center provisions in each state for comparison. California's vote center law (Cal. Elec. Code § 4005) requires there to be 1 vote center for every 10,000 registered voters in the three days before the election through election day, whereas the vote center roll-out in Texas, providing for "one polling place per 7,700 residents," is being called "voter suppression" by this article. This verifiable, objective evidence makes clear that the article is nothing more than a slam piece intended for consumption by impressionable lemmings who have no interest in questioning whether the headline is objectively accurate.

Lol you are such an idiot for buying that bullshit. But okay, let’s say they actually did this because it was “centralized”. Why does that somehow justify making a person drive 10s of miles when it was just easier to vote somewhere less than 5 miles away?

Oh thank you for reminding me. The very idea that having to drive 10 miles to vote when it was "just easier to vote somewhere less than 5 miles away" is tantamount to voter suppression for minorities is one of the most insulting, racially demeaning insinuations I've ever heard. I have yet to hear anyone justify that statement with anything that doesn't stink of racism when confronted, because the entire narrative is conditioned upon the implication that black people are too lazy and unmotivated to vote for their own interests in an election if they have to travel farther than a place that closed, simply because it was "easier" to vote at the other place. It's disgusting to me that this underlying narrative continues to be advanced using this sanitized boilerplate hypothetical.

Lol you assholes didn’t even think this voting crap was a problem prior to the GOP announcing for the first time in the 2012 election that it was. You just believe anything they tell you.

First of all, I have no idea what "this voting crap" is referring to, but your post is completely non-responsive to my post that you quoted. You either responded to the wrong post, or you're having an episode of word salad aphasia.

Obviously the narrative is that in person voting fraud is rampant. You blindly agree even though you didn’t know it was a “problem” until republicans told you it was. Here you are ranting about black people even though I never said anything about them lol

Did someone swap out your meds for skittles or something? First, please show me where I have ever posted anything about in-person voting fraud or agreeing (blindly or otherwise) with anyone who said anything about it. I'll save you the time you'd spend looking, as it doesn't exist.

Second, if you'd ask the other personalities living in your head to give you a few hours of you time each day, it might be easier to keep track of what you're posting. Like, say, that the headline for the article in your OP is entitled "Texas closes hundreds of polling sites, making it harder for minorities to vote"

Your OP then goes on to provide your opinion on Texas counties switching to the Vote Centers model:

Obviously it’s to keep minorities from voting at all regardless of what ID they have in their possession because the GOP are fascist pieces of shit​

Is there someone we should call to come check on you?

 

[Seawytch]

Smart California, a leader in voting rights, mails a ballot to every registered voter in vote center counties. That is why CA is not accused of suppressing voters when they switch to vote centers.

Seawytch needs to post a full disclosure as to why she comes by her opinion (not fact)

And not lie.

Cali IS accused of ILLEGAL voting.


A newly registered voter in Cali is NOT ALLOWED to mail in a ballot.

Up your game, sweety.

When a half truth is posted it's still a lie.

What the fuck are you slavering about? No, CVR (conditional voter registration) voters (voters who register and want to vote the same day after the close of Registration) cannot vote a VBM ballot. And? Prior to the Voter’s Choice Act they couldn’t vote at all.

 

[Seawytch]

Oh thank you for reminding me. The very idea that having to drive 10 miles to vote when it was "just easier to vote somewhere less than 5 miles away" is tantamount to voter suppression for minorities is one of the most insulting, racially demeaning insinuations I've ever heard. I have yet to hear anyone justify that statement with anything that doesn't stink of racism when confronted, because the entire narrative is conditioned upon the implication that black people are too lazy and unmotivated to vote for their own interests in an election if they have to travel farther than a place that closed, simply because it was "easier" to vote at the other place. It's disgusting to me that this underlying narrative continues to be advanced using this sanitized boilerplate hypothetical.

Lol you assholes didn’t even think this voting crap was a problem prior to the GOP announcing for the first time in the 2012 election that it was. You just believe anything they tell you.

First of all, I have no idea what "this voting crap" is referring to, but your post is completely non-responsive to my post that you quoted. You either responded to the wrong post, or you're having an episode of word salad aphasia.

Obviously the narrative is that in person voting fraud is rampant. You blindly agree even though you didn’t know it was a “problem” until republicans told you it was. Here you are ranting about black people even though I never said anything about them lol

STUPID California has LESS sites then Texas.People have to travel FARTHER in California to reach a Voting center then they do in Texas.

Smart California, a leader in voting rights, mails a ballot to every registered voter in vote center counties. That is why CA is not accused of suppressing voters when they switch to vote centers.

Holy hell, it's like you guys take pleasure in posting half-baked inaccuracies. What's the deal, do you simply lack the curiosity required to confirm whether the information is correct before you post it, or do you just lack the skills necessary to research and understand the information? I mean seriously, your post would have been so easy to fact check with even rudimentary search engine knowledge.

First of all, California law does not require vote by mail ballots to be sent to "every registered voter in vote center counties." That only applies to counties that have shifted to the all-mail election model under the newly enacted California Voter's Choice Act which just went into effect as of January 1, 2020 -- which has nothing whatsoever to do with the reason the vote centers model was not previously criticized in California.

Moreover, Texas voters can request a vote by mail ballot for the November general election any time from January 1, 2020 through October 23, 2020. So again, notwithstanding the ridiculousness of the voter-suppression-by-inconvenience argument as to the vote centers model in the first place, the fact that Texas voters have almost 11 months to request a vote by mail ballot belies any plausible hint of voter suppression.

Have you read the VCA?

 

[Seawytch]

The California Voter’s Choice Act is a new law (PDF) passed in 2016 that will modernize elections in California by allowing counties to conduct elections under a new model which provides greater flexibility and convenience for voters.

This new election model allows voters to choose how, when, and where to cast their ballot by:
Mailing every voter a ballot
Expanding in-person early voting
Allowing voters to cast a ballot at any vote center within their county

https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/voters-choice-act/

 

[Osiris-ODS]

First of all, I have no idea what "this voting crap" is referring to, but your post is completely non-responsive to my post that you quoted. You either responded to the wrong post, or you're having an episode of word salad aphasia.

Obviously the narrative is that in person voting fraud is rampant. You blindly agree even though you didn’t know it was a “problem” until republicans told you it was. Here you are ranting about black people even though I never said anything about them lol

STUPID California has LESS sites then Texas.People have to travel FARTHER in California to reach a Voting center then they do in Texas.

Smart California, a leader in voting rights, mails a ballot to every registered voter in vote center counties. That is why CA is not accused of suppressing voters when they switch to vote centers.

Holy hell, it's like you guys take pleasure in posting half-baked inaccuracies. What's the deal, do you simply lack the curiosity required to confirm whether the information is correct before you post it, or do you just lack the skills necessary to research and understand the information? I mean seriously, your post would have been so easy to fact check with even rudimentary search engine knowledge.

First of all, California law does not require vote by mail ballots to be sent to "every registered voter in vote center counties." That only applies to counties that have shifted to the all-mail election model under the newly enacted California Voter's Choice Act which just went into effect as of January 1, 2020 -- which has nothing whatsoever to do with the reason the vote centers model was not previously criticized in California.

Moreover, Texas voters can request a vote by mail ballot for the November general election any time from January 1, 2020 through October 23, 2020. So again, notwithstanding the ridiculousness of the voter-suppression-by-inconvenience argument as to the vote centers model in the first place, the fact that Texas voters have almost 11 months to request a vote by mail ballot belies any plausible hint of voter suppression.

Have you read the VCA?

Yes, and as I pointed out, it did not go into effect until January 2020 and provides that VBM packets are to be sent to registered voters in counties that adopt the new all-mail ballot model. Since it literally just went into effect, it has nothing to do with why California's implementation of the vote center model in prior years wasn't demonized as a voter suppression operation. In other words, if something is voter suppression in 2018, and then something new is done in 2020 that isn't voter suppression, that doesn't change the fact that there was voter suppression in 2018.

Applying that to this discussion, if California's implementation of the vote center model wasn't voter suppression in 2018 (and I am not aware of any such claims), then it isn't voter suppression when Texas is doing it in 2020. The fact that California has added another new model in 2020 that provides for VBM packets to all registered voters in all-mail model counties is completely irrelevant to how the vote centers model in California was perceived and treated by the media prior to 2020. We're comparing two slices of key lime pie, and you're carrying on about the okra on another plate. But to your credit, at least you're talking about food in this analogy. Billy on the other hand is making excited utterances about the invisible space men in the ball pit.

 

[Seawytch]

Obviously the narrative is that in person voting fraud is rampant. You blindly agree even though you didn’t know it was a “problem” until republicans told you it was. Here you are ranting about black people even though I never said anything about them lol

STUPID California has LESS sites then Texas.People have to travel FARTHER in California to reach a Voting center then they do in Texas.

Smart California, a leader in voting rights, mails a ballot to every registered voter in vote center counties. That is why CA is not accused of suppressing voters when they switch to vote centers.

Holy hell, it's like you guys take pleasure in posting half-baked inaccuracies. What's the deal, do you simply lack the curiosity required to confirm whether the information is correct before you post it, or do you just lack the skills necessary to research and understand the information? I mean seriously, your post would have been so easy to fact check with even rudimentary search engine knowledge.

First of all, California law does not require vote by mail ballots to be sent to "every registered voter in vote center counties." That only applies to counties that have shifted to the all-mail election model under the newly enacted California Voter's Choice Act which just went into effect as of January 1, 2020 -- which has nothing whatsoever to do with the reason the vote centers model was not previously criticized in California.

Moreover, Texas voters can request a vote by mail ballot for the November general election any time from January 1, 2020 through October 23, 2020. So again, notwithstanding the ridiculousness of the voter-suppression-by-inconvenience argument as to the vote centers model in the first place, the fact that Texas voters have almost 11 months to request a vote by mail ballot belies any plausible hint of voter suppression.

Have you read the VCA?

Yes, and as I pointed out, it did not go into effect until January 2020 and provides that VBM packets are to be sent to registered voters in counties that adopt the new all-mail ballot model. Since it literally just went into effect, it has nothing to do with why California's implementation of the vote center model in prior years wasn't demonized as a voter suppression operation. In other words, if something is voter suppression in 2018, and then something new is done in 2020 that isn't voter suppression, that doesn't change the fact that there was voter suppression in 2018.

Applying that to this discussion, if California's implementation of the vote center model wasn't voter suppression in 2018 (and I am not aware of any such claims), then it isn't voter suppression when Texas is doing it in 2020. The fact that California has added another new model in 2020 that provides for VBM packets to all registered voters in all-mail model counties is completely irrelevant to how the vote centers model in California was perceived and treated by the media prior to 2020. We're comparing two slices of key lime pie, and you're carrying on about the okra on another plate. But to your credit, at least you're talking about food in this analogy. Billy on the other hand is making excited utterances about the invisible space men in the ball pit.

The difference between CA and TX is that CA mailed a ballot to every voter. TX didn’t. The five counties that adopted the VCA in 2018 mailed a ballot to every voter. 13 of the 14 that adopted it for March 2020 also mailed a ballot to every voter. Only LA has an exemption but they have over a thousand Vote Centers, 6 of them open 24 hours. (Also, any voter in CA can request a VBM) Not the case in TX. You must be over 65, disabled or out of the area)

 

[RetiredGySgt]

STUPID California has LESS sites then Texas.People have to travel FARTHER in California to reach a Voting center then they do in Texas.

Smart California, a leader in voting rights, mails a ballot to every registered voter in vote center counties. That is why CA is not accused of suppressing voters when they switch to vote centers.

Holy hell, it's like you guys take pleasure in posting half-baked inaccuracies. What's the deal, do you simply lack the curiosity required to confirm whether the information is correct before you post it, or do you just lack the skills necessary to research and understand the information? I mean seriously, your post would have been so easy to fact check with even rudimentary search engine knowledge.

First of all, California law does not require vote by mail ballots to be sent to "every registered voter in vote center counties." That only applies to counties that have shifted to the all-mail election model under the newly enacted California Voter's Choice Act which just went into effect as of January 1, 2020 -- which has nothing whatsoever to do with the reason the vote centers model was not previously criticized in California.

Moreover, Texas voters can request a vote by mail ballot for the November general election any time from January 1, 2020 through October 23, 2020. So again, notwithstanding the ridiculousness of the voter-suppression-by-inconvenience argument as to the vote centers model in the first place, the fact that Texas voters have almost 11 months to request a vote by mail ballot belies any plausible hint of voter suppression.

Have you read the VCA?

Yes, and as I pointed out, it did not go into effect until January 2020 and provides that VBM packets are to be sent to registered voters in counties that adopt the new all-mail ballot model. Since it literally just went into effect, it has nothing to do with why California's implementation of the vote center model in prior years wasn't demonized as a voter suppression operation. In other words, if something is voter suppression in 2018, and then something new is done in 2020 that isn't voter suppression, that doesn't change the fact that there was voter suppression in 2018.

Applying that to this discussion, if California's implementation of the vote center model wasn't voter suppression in 2018 (and I am not aware of any such claims), then it isn't voter suppression when Texas is doing it in 2020. The fact that California has added another new model in 2020 that provides for VBM packets to all registered voters in all-mail model counties is completely irrelevant to how the vote centers model in California was perceived and treated by the media prior to 2020. We're comparing two slices of key lime pie, and you're carrying on about the okra on another plate. But to your credit, at least you're talking about food in this analogy. Billy on the other hand is making excited utterances about the invisible space men in the ball pit.

The difference between CA and TX is that CA mailed a ballot to every voter. TX didn’t. The five counties that adopted the VCA in 2018 mailed a ballot to every voter. 13 of the 14 that adopted it for March 2020 also mailed a ballot to every voter. Only LA has an exemption but they have over a thousand Vote Centers, 6 of them open 24 hours. (Also, any voter in CA can request a VBM) Not the case in TX. You must be over 65, disabled or out of the area)

Again for the TRULY STUPID that ONLY HAPPENED THIS YEAR.

 

[Seawytch]

Smart California, a leader in voting rights, mails a ballot to every registered voter in vote center counties. That is why CA is not accused of suppressing voters when they switch to vote centers.

Holy hell, it's like you guys take pleasure in posting half-baked inaccuracies. What's the deal, do you simply lack the curiosity required to confirm whether the information is correct before you post it, or do you just lack the skills necessary to research and understand the information? I mean seriously, your post would have been so easy to fact check with even rudimentary search engine knowledge.

First of all, California law does not require vote by mail ballots to be sent to "every registered voter in vote center counties." That only applies to counties that have shifted to the all-mail election model under the newly enacted California Voter's Choice Act which just went into effect as of January 1, 2020 -- which has nothing whatsoever to do with the reason the vote centers model was not previously criticized in California.

Moreover, Texas voters can request a vote by mail ballot for the November general election any time from January 1, 2020 through October 23, 2020. So again, notwithstanding the ridiculousness of the voter-suppression-by-inconvenience argument as to the vote centers model in the first place, the fact that Texas voters have almost 11 months to request a vote by mail ballot belies any plausible hint of voter suppression.

Have you read the VCA?

Yes, and as I pointed out, it did not go into effect until January 2020 and provides that VBM packets are to be sent to registered voters in counties that adopt the new all-mail ballot model. Since it literally just went into effect, it has nothing to do with why California's implementation of the vote center model in prior years wasn't demonized as a voter suppression operation. In other words, if something is voter suppression in 2018, and then something new is done in 2020 that isn't voter suppression, that doesn't change the fact that there was voter suppression in 2018.

Applying that to this discussion, if California's implementation of the vote center model wasn't voter suppression in 2018 (and I am not aware of any such claims), then it isn't voter suppression when Texas is doing it in 2020. The fact that California has added another new model in 2020 that provides for VBM packets to all registered voters in all-mail model counties is completely irrelevant to how the vote centers model in California was perceived and treated by the media prior to 2020. We're comparing two slices of key lime pie, and you're carrying on about the okra on another plate. But to your credit, at least you're talking about food in this analogy. Billy on the other hand is making excited utterances about the invisible space men in the ball pit.

The difference between CA and TX is that CA mailed a ballot to every voter. TX didn’t. The five counties that adopted the VCA in 2018 mailed a ballot to every voter. 13 of the 14 that adopted it for March 2020 also mailed a ballot to every voter. Only LA has an exemption but they have over a thousand Vote Centers, 6 of them open 24 hours. (Also, any voter in CA can request a VBM) Not the case in TX. You must be over 65, disabled or out of the area)

Again for the TRULY STUPID that ONLY HAPPENED THIS YEAR.

WRONG! The VCA has been in place since 2018. 5 counties did it in 2018. 14 are doing it in 2020. All VCA counties but LA county mail a ballot to every voter.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Holy hell, it's like you guys take pleasure in posting half-baked inaccuracies. What's the deal, do you simply lack the curiosity required to confirm whether the information is correct before you post it, or do you just lack the skills necessary to research and understand the information? I mean seriously, your post would have been so easy to fact check with even rudimentary search engine knowledge.

First of all, California law does not require vote by mail ballots to be sent to "every registered voter in vote center counties." That only applies to counties that have shifted to the all-mail election model under the newly enacted California Voter's Choice Act which just went into effect as of January 1, 2020 -- which has nothing whatsoever to do with the reason the vote centers model was not previously criticized in California.

Moreover, Texas voters can request a vote by mail ballot for the November general election any time from January 1, 2020 through October 23, 2020. So again, notwithstanding the ridiculousness of the voter-suppression-by-inconvenience argument as to the vote centers model in the first place, the fact that Texas voters have almost 11 months to request a vote by mail ballot belies any plausible hint of voter suppression.

Have you read the VCA?

Yes, and as I pointed out, it did not go into effect until January 2020 and provides that VBM packets are to be sent to registered voters in counties that adopt the new all-mail ballot model. Since it literally just went into effect, it has nothing to do with why California's implementation of the vote center model in prior years wasn't demonized as a voter suppression operation. In other words, if something is voter suppression in 2018, and then something new is done in 2020 that isn't voter suppression, that doesn't change the fact that there was voter suppression in 2018.

Applying that to this discussion, if California's implementation of the vote center model wasn't voter suppression in 2018 (and I am not aware of any such claims), then it isn't voter suppression when Texas is doing it in 2020. The fact that California has added another new model in 2020 that provides for VBM packets to all registered voters in all-mail model counties is completely irrelevant to how the vote centers model in California was perceived and treated by the media prior to 2020. We're comparing two slices of key lime pie, and you're carrying on about the okra on another plate. But to your credit, at least you're talking about food in this analogy. Billy on the other hand is making excited utterances about the invisible space men in the ball pit.

The difference between CA and TX is that CA mailed a ballot to every voter. TX didn’t. The five counties that adopted the VCA in 2018 mailed a ballot to every voter. 13 of the 14 that adopted it for March 2020 also mailed a ballot to every voter. Only LA has an exemption but they have over a thousand Vote Centers, 6 of them open 24 hours. (Also, any voter in CA can request a VBM) Not the case in TX. You must be over 65, disabled or out of the area)

Again for the TRULY STUPID that ONLY HAPPENED THIS YEAR.

WRONG! The VCA has been in place since 2018. 5 counties did it in 2018. 14 are doing it in 2020. All VCA counties but LA county mail a ballot to every voter.

So only since 2018 and you are whining about Texas JUST going to centers. LOL so before 2018 it wasn't done remind me of all the carping about California voter suppression again?

 

[JWBooth]

The GOP managed to fool their idiotic base that actual in-person voting fraud is “rampant”, but how does one justify them closing actual voting locations? Obviously it’s to keep minorities from voting at all regardless of what ID they have in their possession because the GOP are fascist pieces of shit. Obviously white republican voters are okay with it. All that matters is that they win I guess. Either that, or they just believe anything their GOP masters tell them. Both seem equally likely.

Texas closes hundreds of polling sites, making it harder for minorities to vote | US news | The Guardian

Voting is easier than ever, unfortunately. Two weeks of early voting & voting by mail - no questions asked.

 

[Nostra]

The GOP managed to fool their idiotic base that actual in-person voting fraud is “rampant”, but how does one justify them closing actual voting locations? Obviously it’s to keep minorities from voting at all regardless of what ID they have in their possession because the GOP are fascist pieces of shit. Obviously white republican voters are okay with it. All that matters is that they win I guess. Either that, or they just believe anything their GOP masters tell them. Both seem equally likely.

Texas closes hundreds of polling sites, making it harder for minorities to vote | US news | The Guardian

Gotta love a "source" who screams "making it harder for minorities to vote" in the headline.and then doesn't present a single thing about it making it harder for minorities to vote in the article.

Obviously aimed at single digit IQ Dimsocialists who won't bother to read past the headline.

 

[Seawytch]

Have you read the VCA?

Yes, and as I pointed out, it did not go into effect until January 2020 and provides that VBM packets are to be sent to registered voters in counties that adopt the new all-mail ballot model. Since it literally just went into effect, it has nothing to do with why California's implementation of the vote center model in prior years wasn't demonized as a voter suppression operation. In other words, if something is voter suppression in 2018, and then something new is done in 2020 that isn't voter suppression, that doesn't change the fact that there was voter suppression in 2018.

Applying that to this discussion, if California's implementation of the vote center model wasn't voter suppression in 2018 (and I am not aware of any such claims), then it isn't voter suppression when Texas is doing it in 2020. The fact that California has added another new model in 2020 that provides for VBM packets to all registered voters in all-mail model counties is completely irrelevant to how the vote centers model in California was perceived and treated by the media prior to 2020. We're comparing two slices of key lime pie, and you're carrying on about the okra on another plate. But to your credit, at least you're talking about food in this analogy. Billy on the other hand is making excited utterances about the invisible space men in the ball pit.

The difference between CA and TX is that CA mailed a ballot to every voter. TX didn’t. The five counties that adopted the VCA in 2018 mailed a ballot to every voter. 13 of the 14 that adopted it for March 2020 also mailed a ballot to every voter. Only LA has an exemption but they have over a thousand Vote Centers, 6 of them open 24 hours. (Also, any voter in CA can request a VBM) Not the case in TX. You must be over 65, disabled or out of the area)

Again for the TRULY STUPID that ONLY HAPPENED THIS YEAR.

WRONG! The VCA has been in place since 2018. 5 counties did it in 2018. 14 are doing it in 2020. All VCA counties but LA county mail a ballot to every voter.

So only since 2018 and you are whining about Texas JUST going to centers. LOL so before 2018 it wasn't done remind me of all the carping about California voter suppression again?

Dumb ass motherfucker, TX did not mail a ballot to every voter, just closed Polling places. California VCA counties closed polling places just like Texas, yes, but unlike Texas, they mailed everyone a ballot. That’s why TX is being accused of voter suppression and CA was not.

 

[okfine]

The GOP managed to fool their idiotic base that actual in-person voting fraud is “rampant”, but how does one justify them closing actual voting locations? Obviously it’s to keep minorities from voting at all regardless of what ID they have in their possession because the GOP are fascist pieces of shit. Obviously white republican voters are okay with it. All that matters is that they win I guess. Either that, or they just believe anything their GOP masters tell them. Both seem equally likely.

Texas closes hundreds of polling sites, making it harder for minorities to vote | US news | The Guardian

Blacks live in populated areas with numerous options to vote whites a living rule areas have to drive miles in hours to vote.. go away you race hustler

I don’t understand how you just make shit up as you go along and expect no one to notice.

He is a fraud. Ignore him.

 

[Frankeneinstein]

The GOP managed to fool their idiotic base that actual in-person voting fraud is “rampant”, but how does one justify them closing actual voting locations? Obviously it’s to keep minorities from voting at all regardless of what ID they have in their possession because the GOP are fascist pieces of shit. Obviously white republican voters are okay with it. All that matters is that they win I guess. Either that, or they just believe anything their GOP masters tell them. Both seem equally likely.

Texas closes hundreds of polling sites, making it harder for minorities to vote | US news | The Guardian

fake news.

 

[Nostra]

Yes, and as I pointed out, it did not go into effect until January 2020 and provides that VBM packets are to be sent to registered voters in counties that adopt the new all-mail ballot model. Since it literally just went into effect, it has nothing to do with why California's implementation of the vote center model in prior years wasn't demonized as a voter suppression operation. In other words, if something is voter suppression in 2018, and then something new is done in 2020 that isn't voter suppression, that doesn't change the fact that there was voter suppression in 2018.

Applying that to this discussion, if California's implementation of the vote center model wasn't voter suppression in 2018 (and I am not aware of any such claims), then it isn't voter suppression when Texas is doing it in 2020. The fact that California has added another new model in 2020 that provides for VBM packets to all registered voters in all-mail model counties is completely irrelevant to how the vote centers model in California was perceived and treated by the media prior to 2020. We're comparing two slices of key lime pie, and you're carrying on about the okra on another plate. But to your credit, at least you're talking about food in this analogy. Billy on the other hand is making excited utterances about the invisible space men in the ball pit.

The difference between CA and TX is that CA mailed a ballot to every voter. TX didn’t. The five counties that adopted the VCA in 2018 mailed a ballot to every voter. 13 of the 14 that adopted it for March 2020 also mailed a ballot to every voter. Only LA has an exemption but they have over a thousand Vote Centers, 6 of them open 24 hours. (Also, any voter in CA can request a VBM) Not the case in TX. You must be over 65, disabled or out of the area)

Again for the TRULY STUPID that ONLY HAPPENED THIS YEAR.

WRONG! The VCA has been in place since 2018. 5 counties did it in 2018. 14 are doing it in 2020. All VCA counties but LA county mail a ballot to every voter.

So only since 2018 and you are whining about Texas JUST going to centers. LOL so before 2018 it wasn't done remind me of all the carping about California voter suppression again?

Dumb ass motherfucker, TX did not mail a ballot to every voter, just closed Polling places. California VCA counties closed polling places just like Texas, yes, but unlike Texas, they mailed everyone a ballot. That’s why TX is being accused of voter suppression and CA was not.

You obviously don't know what voter suppression means.

 

[Seawytch]

Have you read the VCA?

Yes, and as I pointed out, it did not go into effect until January 2020 and provides that VBM packets are to be sent to registered voters in counties that adopt the new all-mail ballot model. Since it literally just went into effect, it has nothing to do with why California's implementation of the vote center model in prior years wasn't demonized as a voter suppression operation. In other words, if something is voter suppression in 2018, and then something new is done in 2020 that isn't voter suppression, that doesn't change the fact that there was voter suppression in 2018.

Applying that to this discussion, if California's implementation of the vote center model wasn't voter suppression in 2018 (and I am not aware of any such claims), then it isn't voter suppression when Texas is doing it in 2020. The fact that California has added another new model in 2020 that provides for VBM packets to all registered voters in all-mail model counties is completely irrelevant to how the vote centers model in California was perceived and treated by the media prior to 2020. We're comparing two slices of key lime pie, and you're carrying on about the okra on another plate. But to your credit, at least you're talking about food in this analogy. Billy on the other hand is making excited utterances about the invisible space men in the ball pit.

The difference between CA and TX is that CA mailed a ballot to every voter. TX didn’t. The five counties that adopted the VCA in 2018 mailed a ballot to every voter. 13 of the 14 that adopted it for March 2020 also mailed a ballot to every voter. Only LA has an exemption but they have over a thousand Vote Centers, 6 of them open 24 hours. (Also, any voter in CA can request a VBM) Not the case in TX. You must be over 65, disabled or out of the area)

Again for the TRULY STUPID that ONLY HAPPENED THIS YEAR.

WRONG! The VCA has been in place since 2018. 5 counties did it in 2018. 14 are doing it in 2020. All VCA counties but LA county mail a ballot to every voter.

So only since 2018 and you are whining about Texas JUST going to centers. LOL so before 2018 it wasn't done remind me of all the carping about California voter suppression again?

Before 2018, California hadn't switched to Vote Centers, dumbass.

 

[Markle]

The GOP managed to fool their idiotic base that actual in-person voting fraud is “rampant”, but how does one justify them closing actual voting locations? Obviously it’s to keep minorities from voting at all regardless of what ID they have in their possession because the GOP are fascist pieces of shit. Obviously white republican voters are okay with it. All that matters is that they win I guess. Either that, or they just believe anything their GOP masters tell them. Both seem equally likely.

Texas closes hundreds of polling sites, making it harder for minorities to vote | US news | The Guardian

What, they canceled early voting and absentee ballots too? The nerve of them shutting voting sites whre a half a dozen people voted and it required dozens of people to open, set up, monitor, close, count their six ballots, lock up and go home.

 

[Markle]

As a 'Californian' and as a matter of fact, I no longer have a local polling center, which was maybe a mile away from me.

Now I must drive 45 miles, to my county seat, in order to vote in person.

Not true. Every county in the United States has absentee ballots. Vote in your living room.

 

[easyt65]

'Last year, Texas led the nation in closing down voting locations'

...but Democrats still led in Rigging Primaries, Attempting To Alter / Steal Elections, & in Initiating Political Coup Attempts...