Boisterous agitators disrupt Hays County election machine test, badger Texas secretary of state

[TexasTowelie]

by Natalia Contreras, Texas Tribune


SAN MARCOS - About a dozen activists demanding responses to conspiracy theories about election integrity this week disrupted what is typically an uneventful public testing of voting machines ahead of an election in Hays County.

The activists shouted at the county election administrator and Texas’s secretary of state, who was present for the testing. County officials said they’d never previously encountered such intense hostility at the routine event.

The crowd surrounded members of the election test board — which consisted of political party representatives, county officials and election workers — who were assigned to test the machines, pressing in and looking over their shoulders. Many filed into the election department’s large conference room at county headquarters holding notebooks and pens, ready to take notes.

As soon as the testing began, the activists began to raise familiar questions.

“Are the machines all connected?” one asked Jennifer Doinoff, the county’s elections administrator. “How many Bluetooth devices are there?”

Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2022/09/23/texas-voting-conspiracy-theorists/

[Thomas Hurt]

1. "It's important that the public gets to know the process so they know that this isn't scary...

and that it isn’t something that’s secretive,” Rainey said. “This should be a celebration of people being able to vote.”


Problem is they wouldn't care if they knew about the entire process. They don't want to know about the entire process. Knowing about the process might trigger their cognitive dissonance. They don't want to know the truth. Even making this effort will be folded into whatever latest conspiracy theory these nuts come up with.

No, no, no, they are too stupid and gullible for anything to sink in and set them at ease. For these nutjobs, this is a waste of time.

You can only reassure the stable and sane voter.

[d_r]

2. I miss read this headline as alligators

And read the headline out loud to my family. Then I realized and said oh, but they asked me to read the article out loud as if it was alligators. I did, and I now I encourage anyone who reads this to do the same because it is a more enjoyable article that way.

[TexasTowelie]

3. Gators and badgers.

Oh my.

Yes, I also have MEGO (my eyes glaze over) so I've run into some stories that become more humorous with the error.