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[–] 42 points 5 months ago (25 children)

Doubt it, I'm not convinced Texas has three brain cells to share amongst themselves. They've had stronger candidates than Talarico in the past and still re-elected Cancun Cruz.

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  • [–] 32 points 5 months ago (14 children)
  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    As a Californian who's only ever used paper ballots this confuses and disgusts me. I wish to do a march to the sea.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I first started complaining about this back in 2000, when it was said that all you needed to shift an election was 5 minutes alone with one of these machines and a USB drive. Of course everybody was calling me paranoid. You don't even need a USB drive now.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    Like even that aside technology is inherently malfunction prone, even if they were unhackable there's always the chance something goes wrong. With a piece of paper the worst that can happen is that it gets destroyed and reduced to null.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (10 children)

    Straight party voting was eliminated in Texas in 2020, at least

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    The point was 99% the vote counting fraud though.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    Yes, though I'd really like to see some evidence besides this single image

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/texans-say-voting-machines-are-flipping-selections-to-the-other-party

    The "user error" explanation given was complete bullshit. When you voted straight party, that was it. There was no way for the voter to accidentally switch the senatorial vote after that. You'd have to be very deliberate to pull that off. And it has nothing to do with "rendering".

    https://www.texastribune.org/2018/10/26/texas-voting-machines-2018-straight-ticket-midterm-elections/

    The Texas Tribune took the SoS's statement as gospel. But the SoS was the fox guarding the henhouse.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    I've seen maybe two other images of the "Party = D, Senator = Cruz" ballot "error", but that's the only one I saved (also because I know who took it).

    When I went back to see what had come from the "investigation", my heart just sank when I saw that the press had simply swallowed the line given to them by the Abbott-appointed Texas Secretary of State: "oops, no big deal".

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (3 children)

    Who did the person who took this send it too? Did they name the county responsible for their elections? If this is real, I'm having a hard time understanding how I would have never seen it as a Texan plugged into subversive communities

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

    Lady I know from Twitter posted it on there, and took it in Harris County.

    And I don't know why you're so concerned about its veracity; the issue was widely reported on in Texas during the 2018 election. Search for that election and the phrase "vote flipping" and you should find out all you need to know-- well, at least all that Texas election officials were willing to admit to.

    The same thing happened in Cruz's 2012 election-- same voting machine manufacturer, too-- although it was more widely reported on in 2018. They've cheated for him twice now.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    I searched as instructed on duck duck go and there wasn't a single hit on this topic on the first 3 pages of search results. Do you have any links at all?

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    I posted this yesterday, but here you go

    https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/texans-say-voting-machines-are-flipping-selections-to-the-other-party

    The "user error" explanation given was complete bullshit. When you voted straight party, that was it. There was no way for the voter to accidentally switch the senatorial vote after that. You'd have to be very deliberate to pull that off. And it has nothing to do with "rendering".

    https://www.texastribune.org/2018/10/26/texas-voting-machines-2018-straight-ticket-midterm-elections/

    The Texas Tribune took the SoS's statement as gospel. But the SoS was the fox guarding the henhouse.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    Yes, that's right! I'd actually forgotten about that. I was never in the habit of voting straight party anyway, because once upon a time I would actually vote for Republicans if they were the only ones in their respective races. I figured the guy earned my vote for at least being the only person willing to do the job.

    Not anymore. They can burn in hell.

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Beto had a decent chance until he said he was coming for the AR-15s. I mean at least let your opponents say that, don't feed them the sound byte.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    The exit polls showed that Beto won the vote for the Senate race among native born Texans. So despite all the bad stuff people say about Texas, it's really all of those immigrants from other states that are ruining Texas.

    And Ken Paxton is one of the most corrupt politicians in Texas. There's a good chance that if he leaves office, he'll be arrested by federal authorities soon afterwards, you know, if there's not a corrupt person in the White House. Paxton was impeached by the Texas legislature unanimously.

    So, Paxton has kind of shot himself in the foot by being so openly corrupt. Hopefully it will be enough.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago*

    "I'd rather vote for a guy who skips a tenth of his votes, hikes the electric bill, and tried to overthrow a presidential election before I'd give up weapons used (repeatedly) to slaughter school children"

    Mhmm yep. Very normal society.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    The gun comment was during the 2020 presidential primaries, didn't affect his 2018 Senate run. Definitely affected the 2022 Governor race, but I honestly don't think he actually wanted to run and just did so for the state party to save face when there were literally zero serious candidates announced for the primaries before he announced (like seriously nobody with any political experience, and one candidate without even a web site).

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Timing also matters. When things are shitty people want change.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    Things being shitty is not a new phenomenon. This state is a petri dish example of 30+ years of gop policies and mistakes. All that time, and the state literally re-elected the pos that went for vacation while their neighbors froze to death. I hope to see change but texas is entirely "wish I knew how to quit you" with them.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Well an unfortunately large portion of the population doesn't have empathy and/or is subject to mis/disinformation all their waking hours. Their neighbor freezing should have paid or prayed more. The women and children dying from bad maternal-infant care same thing. Timing in this sense means things that actually affect what unempathetic and misinformed people care about and you can't hide from which are the price of gas and groceries because it hits them in the wallet every time they pay at the store.

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