Texas A&M no longer has an early voting site. One anti-Abbott PAC will drive students to the polls.

[Demovictory9]

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/education/article/Mothers-Against-Greg-Abbott-bus-Texas-A-M-students-17504927.php


Texas A&M no longer has an early voting site. One anti-Abbott PAC will drive students to the polls.

Mothers Against Greg Abbott plans to bus hundreds of Texas A&M University students to the nearest early voting location after Brazos County officials moved the polling site off campus earlier this year.

The last-minute effort is designed to help students who tried and failed to reinstate their precinct’s voting location to its former spot in the Memorial Student Center. Voter access remains a pressing issue on college campuses, especially in areas with high percentages of underrepresented populations or places that happen to see young people cast blue ballots in a sea of red.





The political action committee raised $15,000 for the effort, which will take students from campus to the voter location at College Station City Hall three times an hour, 10 hours a day, every day of early voting. It also comes on top of funding from Brazos County, whose commissioners on Tuesday voted to give A&M $5,000 to arrange transportation for its students.

“Any additional funding raised by outside groups could be useful in increasing the available hours of transportation for those students who wish to vote early and are unable to get to College Station City Hall on their own,” Brazos County Judge Duane Peters said.

Texas A&M students number over 70,000 — or more than half the population of College Station. Former President Donald Trump won in Brazos County by 15 percentage points in the 2020 election, but New York Times precinct voter data shows that Texas A&M’s campus and most of its surrounding neighborhoods slightly favored President Joe Biden.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Isnt Texas the fascist state where to be registered to vote

You have to be registered by a deputy and to become a deputy there is only one day per year to go through that process, making it near impossible to register new voters...yeah.

[yellowdogintexas]

4. No, you can get certified as a VDR just by going to the

county elections office and taking a short computerized class.
At least that is how it works here. Your certification is good for 2 years. I believe. When I did mine I had to schedule it, but there were plenty of opportunities to do so. Definitely not just one day of the year.

We have two different forms: One has a tear-off that is signed by the registrar and given to the voter, to serve as a receipt that proves they are registered. The Volunteer Deputy Registrar takes the registration form and delivers it to the county elections office, within 4 days. This can only be handled by a VDR.

The other form does not have the receipt. The voter completes it, folds it up, seals it and drops it in the mail. Anyone can give those forms out, or a voter can pick one up at government offices, libraries, etc. fill it out and mail it without ever seeing a deputy registrar. I keep a batch in my glove box just in case I run across someone who wants to register.

It is possible that in the very rural areas VDR certifications are not as easy to get. However since the whole thing is done online it shouldn't be all that difficult.

If you want to be a VDR, contact your county elections office .

[SergeStorms]

2. The Texas legislature....

will outlaw that before 2024. They'll make it illegal to bus anyone to polling places. The republiCONS will do whatever they can to make voting more difficult for everyone, and twice as difficult for people of color.

[SCantiGOP]

3. If Georgia can say no water to people in line

It seems logical that Texas could ban giving rides.

The first year I could vote I spent 12 hours driving voters to the polls. This was 1972 in SC.
Spoiler Alert: my efforts did not result in George McGovern carrying SC.

[ananda]

5. Just made a donation to those great mothers.

Thanks for posting.