Faulty ballots and frustration: Texans confront 'nightmare' effects of new election law as early vot

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The Tx GOP voter suppression law is working as designed

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Gaskin is among the Texans ensnared in the Lone Star State's restrictive new voting law, passed by the Republican-controlled legislature last year. It imposes a raft of changes in a state that already had some of the strictest voting regulations in the country. As early voting kicks off in the state on Monday, election officials and voters alike are grappling with confusion about the law in the first statewide election since it has taken effect.

At stake: primary races for governor and six other statewide offices, along with contests for state legislative and congressional seats and other local positions. Early, in-person voting runs through February 25. The final day of voting in the primary is March 1.

In addition to the new ID requirements to vote absentee, the law makes it a crime for a public official to mail out absentee ballot applications to voters who haven't requested them. SB1, as the law is known, also takes aim at Harris County -- home to Houston -- which offered 24-hour voting during the pandemic in 2020. The law limits early voting hours and bans drive-thru voting, another tool the county used.

The changes already have resulted in higher-than-usual rejection rates for absentee ballot applications. And some counties have begun to report new problems: Hundreds of mailed ballots flagged for rejection over ID requirements......

"Basically, everything that can go wrong with this has been going wrong," said James Slattery, a senior staff attorney with the Texas Civil Rights Project, said of the implementation of the Texas law. He worries other states are "going to go through this type of ordeal when their time eventually comes."

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1. There should be mass mailings to every person in America

With the names of the corporations, national and local businesses that donate money to fucking Retrumplicans, with advice for how to contact them about their support for white supremacy and voter suppression .

None of this will change. The racism, fascism, misogyny, hatred and white supremacy...N-O-T-H-I-N-G will change, unless and until we make racism, fascism, misogyny, hatred and white supremacy unprofitable to the corporations and businesses that fund, support and enable it.

There are fucking businesses, local and national, that you do business with everyday that fund and support this shit.

Why?

[onecaliberal]

2. K&R

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3. Agree

This mess is self inflicted as the voters voted for the current Texas government. Now, they’re doing a good job of making sure they don’t get voted out. Don’t support these businesses with your purchases. The good fight is gonna take people sticking together n hit em in the pocketbook until enough law suits are filed n won to rescind these voter laws.

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4. Who do you file

the lawsuit with? The state legislature approved the voting requirements.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. 'This is Jim Crow 2.0': Pam Gaskin, a Texas voter whose mail ballot application was rejected twice

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6. That was the objective