Voters have until October 5 to update their registrations and can check their status on the Texas secretary of state’s website, at a county election office, or by mail. But with a number as high as 1.2 million people, the message may not reach many voters in time—especially if they haven’t moved and it’s the fault of a clerical error.

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[–] 8 points 2 months ago (1 child)

https://goelect.txelections.civixapps.com/ivis-mvp-ui/#/login

Make sure you check your registration regularly and act fast if you have been removed.

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

    “No, you’re wrong, there will be an election in November and it will be a blue wave”

    Is what everyone told be before I left the United States.

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    [–] 104 points 2 months ago (11 children)

    You know what other major political party that suppressed votes to win and went on to commit atrocious crimes against humanity?

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

    You wouldn't happen to be referring to the one with a leader that Trump's own Education Dept just compared him to, would you?

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

    That is a terrible comparison.

    Hitler was not a pedophile.

    \s

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago

    Operation Eagle Eye 1964: a suppression operation aimed at restricting minority voters through 'voter caging'. This was enacted by thousands of volunteers mostly at inner city ballots where they tested the literacy of voters as they turned up (literacy being a requirement, though not normally aggressively tested).

    Lyndon B. Johnson still won though.

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

    Yeah yeah. I know. I liked Bernie, too.

    It's not so much that it was her time as much as it wasn't his. As in, he was ahead of his time. Now after we've experienced Trump a couple of times, Bernie's policies are a lot more palatable.

    We just had to fafo first.

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  • [–] 38 points 2 months ago

    Spread the word. Republicans LOVE voter suppression. Double-check your registration, especially if you're in a red state or red county. Have a plan and vote!

    Republicans want us talking about the non-issue of election fraud. They don't want to talk about affordability, illegal wars, erosion of our Constitutional rights, the protection of child sexual predators by Republican Senators and House Reps, and many other way more important issues.

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

    Let me make a guess about the demographics: they weren't white

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago

    My wife got news from a coworker who been pull off the rolls said we should check ours.

    Well I did hell my son still has his and doesn't even live in the state anymore.

    We also all registered independents. So Republicans think we are one of their. Even though we always vote Democrat.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 months ago

    The fuckery works because people don’t check until its too late. This is not a new trick, they do this every 2 years. The scope may be bigger than ever, though.

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

    "clerical error".... right.....

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago

    This is exactly how Kemp managed to stay Governor of GA for a while, and why Abrams was raked over the coals for nearly going door to door urging people to register.

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

    Conservatives are pissing in their pants at the prospect that Texas could turn blue.

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

    Americans, now would be the time to spring into action.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    A year ago would have been the time to spring into action... Or better yet during COVID

    At this point? We'll probably still win the midterms, hopefully have a wave of fresh progressives who will soften the landing, but our government has been shredded. Our economy is going to pop in the next two years (could be tomorrow), and our debt is untenable anyways

    There's rough times ahead before things will get better

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago

    Religious conservatives have to cheat to maintain power.

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

    This is the time to step up Americans. You are supposedly the greatest country and democracy on earth. Land of the free and home of the brave. Time to show the world what the fuck you people are made off. Are you a bunch of fucking cowards that will let this sack of shit steal your freedom from you or are going to step up and take back what’s rightfully yours?

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

    I live 3300 km away from Texas. That's almost half again as far as Kyiv is from Paris. It's not trivial to just pop down there for a march some weekend.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Yeah because this is only happening in Texas.. wake up man, they’re stealing the midterms

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    They're rigging them, but they've been doing that for my entire lifetime. For decades Republicans wouldn't have been able to win a majority or presidency in a fair election, but our opposition party refuses to move or step down. They're captured by Capital interests too.

    What exactly would you have us do? Our empire is at the last phase of it's life cycle... It's collapsing.

    There's no saving it. We're way past the tipping point... If we want democracy we will have to rebuild it, and we're in for a period of suffering before that can manifest

    Until then, the best we can do is try to hold things together and keep people alive.

    And hopefully avoid a last ditch major war... That's a common final nail in the coffin

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    So roll over and die is what you’re doing?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    No, I'm building connections in the community so that when hard times come, we can come together

    There's no saving our country, but life is going to go on when the day arrives that no one comes to fix the bridges that fall. We will still be here

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Another reason to have mail-in voting, if you don't get your ballot in the mail, you still have enough time to figure out how to vote in person.

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    [–] 15 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    I posted on another thread that I got purged. Please check your status if you're from Texas.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Can you register as a republican so they are less likely to remove you from the rolls even if you actually voted Democrat in the election?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    We don't have party registration like that. The closest to it is during primary votes, we select which party we're voting for and only get choices for that party. We cannot vote in both party primaries but nothing prevents a Republican or independent from voting in the Democratic primary and vice versa

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  • I really, really wish I had more faith in the integrity of our electoral system and its ability to resist politically-motivated interference

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago

    “Suspended”? Odd way to spell disenfranchised

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago

    Republican strategy in a nutshell:
    Cheat to win, win to cheat.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Its a good thing they don't put as much priority or effort in this constitutional right as the 2a.

    But then again, its not profitable to have voters be able to vote.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Guess how many of them would vote republican...

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    you heard your leaders Texas! no representation, no taxes.

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