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Tweet of the Night: (Original Post) applegrove Jun 2022 OP
We've got more rownesheck Jun 2022 #1
Texas is a text book dictatorship, it has one of the lowest voter *ACCESS* rates in America (link) uponit7771 Jun 2022 #2

rownesheck

(2,343 posts)
1. We've got more
Fri Jun 3, 2022, 06:43 AM
Jun 2022

large cities where most of our people live. Too bad there are GIANT sections of Texas that are basically empty. Also, our voter turnout is embarrassing.

uponit7771

(90,347 posts)
2. Texas is a text book dictatorship, it has one of the lowest voter *ACCESS* rates in America (link)
Fri Jun 3, 2022, 07:10 AM
Jun 2022
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/10/19/texas-voting-elections/

It’s harder than in 49 other states, according to a “cost-of-voting index” compiled by political scientists at Northern Illinois University, Jacksonville University and Wuhan University in China.


Cost of voting index ... Texas is last

https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/elj.2020.0666.pdf

. We learn that Oregon, which has one of the most progressive automatic voter
registration processes and mail-in voting, maintains the first position as the easiest state in which to
vote. Texas falls to 50th, in part because it does not keep pace with reforms like online voter registration
and no excuse absentee voting, which have taken place in most other states
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