Goddammit Texas!
Goddammit Texas!
Edit/Update: It turns out that my last name has a capitol letter in the middle and they put a space in it. Thank god. I can actually vote this year.
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Oof. I checked mine three times this cycle to be sure. Never know when some awful mistake, like voting in a Democratic primary, will get your TX Voter info deleted.
You know, though, since we're mostly left-leaning around these parts, just tell me the secret code and I'll meet you at a basement in the People's Republic of Austin and we'll discuss getting three non-citizens to vote however you'd like, and then we can dine on the flesh of Christians to celebrate!
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How are you guys looking on adrenochrome down that way? Supply shortages have hit us hard on the east coast. I'd kill for some fresh, virginal blood right about now.
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I’d kill for some fresh, virginal blood right about now.
ISWYDT. Congratulations to you for your dark cleverness, fellow leftist devil!
Unfortunately, it's not much better here. The annoyingly heroic Governor Abbott has heroically deployed the heroic Texas Military Department and is disrupting our usual channels along the Rio Grande, both for commodity Catholics, and for nefarious agents to procure high-end evangelical targets in Sugar Land and Southlake. On the plus side, the lack of fresh victims is stressing our natural rivals the Chupacabras, so once we stuff the ballot box and then eliminate all those who stand in our way, Stanley in logistics says things will be back to normal fairly soon, as the extraction facilities in the Planned Parenthood clinics have not yet been seized. Remember to keep an eye out for the distribution points marked out with the "Y'all means All" Pride flags!
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Daddy Gates said it’s my turn to control the weather this time!
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Only degreed meteorologists are allowed to control the weather, Jimmy!
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dine on the flesh of Christians
Hard pass.
Too much fat, I'm on a diet.
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you weren't supposed to tell
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That's it, it hurricaneing time texas
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THE STARS AT NIGHT!
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Twitter and some other reich-wing places were doing fucky stuff like promoting register-to-vote sites that didn't necessarily actually register you to vote. This is particularly true in Texas, because all the sites were online but Texas required you to register either in person or by snail mail. But the sites would display success messages and shit anyway.
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Isn't that a serious federal crime? How did they not get caught doing that?
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News article: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/02/elon-musk-pac-voter-data-trump-harris.html
There was also trump handing out hundred dollar bills and musk offering money to people to register to vote, both of which also seem to be against the law. Fuck if I know why the government doesn't seem to take this shit seriously.
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They live in Siberia?
To be fair IDK but it seems like the american law enforcement or the whole system isn't working as expected.
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Edit/Update: It turns out that my last name has a capitol letter in the middle and they put a space in it. Thank god. I can actually vote this year.
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17.5: People's names aren't written in camelCase
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Those are the kinds of inconsistencirs the GOP use to accuse you of voter fraud, even if you correct it. Don't be surprised if some GOP busybody adds your name to a list of voter registrations to purge. Whenever they talk about voting irregularities and a rigged election, this is exactly the kind of voter disenfranchisement that they are trying to accomplish. Hell, question enough votes and you can get the votes of an entire region thrown out. You don't need any proof to make the accusations, then they massive shit sandwich gets dropped in the lap of a few underpaided and understaffed people to substantiate. I recommend you vote as early as possible and follow up to make sure your vote gets counted.
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Alexander De Large?
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Something like that, except it'd be DeLarge and it's in the system with a space and apparently case-insensitive
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Mildly?
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Not a Texan, but here in Missouri, you can request your absentee ballot as early as 9/24 this year.
I requested mine, waited two weeks, and it never arrived. So last week I requested another, and I'm waiting for it. I do think there's some fuckery afoot with the mail, so I'm probably going to be stuck voting absentee in-person at my local election board.
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Important: If you're on the suspese list rather than being fully removed (unsure if that's the case here), you might still be able to vote but will need to show proof of residence. Contact your registrar to check that and ask them about it
If voters find out they're still on the suspended list after having shown up at their polling places on Election Day, they can still vote after they complete a “statement of residence” form.
Voters with suspended status who may have moved to other counties will be required to vote in the counties where they previously resided or may be asked to submit provisional ballots.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/texas-voter-purge-warning-ballots-abbott-rcna168811
As a note to all: Check your voter registration status today as deadlines are very fast approaching (or even already past in some states)
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Yes, my husband was on the suspended list in our county for years, despite us owning the same home since 2013. He'd even fill out the little address verification card and send it back, stating that the location on record was still valid. Didnt matter, because every single election he would still pop up "suspended" at the polls. He had his TDL, and he'd have to fill out an extra form, but he'd be allowed to vote.
This year, I decided enough was enough and we put our house up for sale, because once I leave Texas this time, I'm not coming back.
I contacted our county registrars office to get our VUIDs so I could update our new address at our rental, and we found out he just...didnt have a VUID? They had no record of him voting in Texas at all...yet he's been able to vote with a "suspended" status with his TDL for years now...living at an address he hasnt deviated from since he originally registered in Texas.
Honestly, I think he was just finally removed since he'd been in "suspended" so long 🤷♀️. Im unsure if it was a legit mistake, or if some genuine fuckery was going on.
But we're all gucci now. Both confirmed registration again back in September. Awaiting 21 Oct with bated breath!
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That doesn't look like the site specifically for TX. Not sure if there might be something that could cause another site to report an error.
Double check at
You'll need to enter your TDL (Texas Driver's License Number) and date of birth after clicking the "Am I Registered?" button
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Yep, not found
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I was hoping you'd be able to find it.
Maybe you can contact your county registrar and see what happened. The deadline for voter registration for the presidential election was October 7. Maybe there's something that can be done.
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That's fucking dumb. I hope you're able to rectify it. Sorry you have to deal with that shit.
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I'm going through the same shit in Indiana. Waiting on a response grim my local office.
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Grim indeed.
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Ha, didn't notice that typo.
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Hell, I'm in NY and my partner's voter registration keeps getting reset to an old address she doesn't live at any more. She's fixed it like three times this year.
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Online voting what could go wrong
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@thefartographer@lemm.ee Have you checked yours? Mine is all good.
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To be safe itnsounds like younhave to register to vote every year.
Just donit when its the "spring forward" part of daylight savings.Or everytime you're stopped outside a grocery store by the person with the clipboard.
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Definitely check voter registration. Quick and easy at state or county website. And register any change of address (along with updating ID, DL).
I usually remember to check about a month before election, or when I see a new illegal "voter purge" in the news (always GOP).
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April Fool’s is another potential reminder if it works for anybody :)
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we hrd u lik fredum so we freed u frm votg
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As a European, the whole registering to vote thing is honestly one of the wildest parts of the US elections to me. It's so unnecessary complicated and prone to errors/manipulation. I just have to show up with my ID, doesn't matter if it's for the EU parliament or the local city senate.
It's by design. We could make it easier, but certain groups benefit from making it difficult.
In conclusion, please send the UN to fix us
It's wild.
There are some local and state governments trying to pass automatic voter registration, but it's an uphill battle, not unlike most things that would generally benefit the public good in this country.
Even in California, we got automatic voter registration passed the legislature, only for the governor to veto it.
Just wild that something so fundamental to a functioning democracy is so divisive.
There's never been a United States ID card, for... reasons. As a Californian, I could get a California ID card, at the same place I got my California Driver's License, if I didn't intend to drive. The forms have the option of adding Voter Registration using the same information (birth certificate, proof of residence) at the same time. But some states make it all much more complicated.
Passport seems like it sorta fits, but it's hardly universal.
So… I’m in Texas , been here a long time.
most ballot counts in the primaries and general are counted by secret software and hardware run by ultra conservative families the last 20 plus years. Recounts are not allowed and exit polls not used anymore because of unpredictability.
Nobody cares, no political party wants to change : not a topic in forums anywhere, even in conspiracy minded chat rooms, and it’s been this way forever ( since before 2000).
There is a ton of crazy that is ignored .
I’ve seen how the system works, I’ve been at the county chair level. Nobody will criticize it . There is a quiet culture of people knowing it’s invalid but decide to leave it be.
That's why it exists - to make it more inconvenient for people (especially in certain demographics) to vote.
the sound bites you hear about voting are intentionally misleading: you have to show up with an id to vote here too and that's not where to controversy lies; but the soundbites are setup to make it sound like it is to engender the reaction you've shared.
the controversy is registering to vote; not voting; and the conservative states intentionally make registering as heavily bureaucratic as possible in the hopes of minimizing the number of people who can successfully finish to process of registration.
they've also dedicated hundreds of millions on dollars to understand and enact policies to keep the poor and minority groups from voting.
usually democrats sit back and let republicans openly do it, but sometimes democrats do it themselves; the democratic governor of california just made automatic voter registration illegal; just as the conservative states do.
Hold on, I'm in MN and we don't have to show our ID to vote.
Depends on the country though. In France you must be registered to vote (you're assigned a specific voting office). It's a single registration foe everything, not for each vote
Although the process is online, and takes like 5mins.
You also get a voting card, but it's technically optional, it just speeds up the process in the voting office.
Just want to add, in the US you'd don't have to register to vote each election/vote, just when you change address.
I see comments like this a lot. Most important and apparently most difficult for Europeans (and others but it's almost always Europeans) to understand is that the US is a very large country, made up of 50 semi-independent states, each with its own government and laws-- about many things, not just elections. So that's why things are more complex here--we're not a small monolithic nation with one single, centralized government and set of laws that apply to everyone no matter where in the country they live.
Each US State runs its own elections; a person obviously can't be allowed to vote in more than one state. Since people can move from one state to another at any time, and even have residences in more than one state at the same time (such as college students and well-off people), it's necessary to register with the state you will be voting in, so that you are officially able to vote in that state and no other.
update response to the replies: Funny, the replies to this post comparing the situation to that of their country with the EU is basically the relationship I was trying to explain, yet they think they have somehow refuted what I said, when actually they validated what I said. Here's what's really "wild": First you call our system stupid, then when I explain our system to you, you say, "But that's just like our system!" and then downvote me for making you realize that what you called stupid is what you also have. 😄
Read the original comment condescendingly asking "Why do you have to register to vote?" yet they are also registered to vote in their own country, but don't even realize it because it was done automatically for them as a citizen. Your government has to track who is eligible to vote[1] and therefore in EU elections as well, one way or another, even if you don't use the word "registered" for it.
BTW, Many US States also automatically register their residents to vote (though a person can optionally refuse that); other US states expect you to register for it yourself (perhaps some European countries too?). Each state makes its own laws about that. Once registered in a state, we can also vote in our Federal elections, just like you can vote in EU elections.
[1] Example: Germany voter eligibility:
You do realize some countries in Europe have federal governments (Germany for example), right? And then these completely independent countries are part of the EU which have EU elections. So you have federation within federation. Also, the EU has higher population than the USA. We don't even all speak the same language. We are allowed to move between EU countries whenever we like and have residence where we please.
I think its not Europeans that don't understand.
update: In case it is not clear, being registered automatically is the same as not having to register, which is what the post is about. Idk what that update word salad is supposed to be or why it is an update instead of a reply.