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Texas county cuts over 100 polling sites as Trump attacks mail-in voting nationally
(www.texastribune.org)
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Fuck Texas.
Please, as a Texan, I ask you to consider that a great many of us are subjected to this bullshit and not happy about it. The gerrymandering, the poll closures, .. these are reactionary responses to a population that is trying desperately to claw itself out of this mess.
As Californian who's visiting Texas numerous times, your state can be pretty rad. It's just the incessant politics and your fuckheaded leadership that blows. And the Evangelicals trying to impose their will on the rest of the country.
On the one hand I completely agree with you. On the other I know that Texas is a maga cesspool. We all know that not everyone in the state is conservative, but we also know that it's a bastion for conservative leaning people. You might not like it, but do you actually think it will ever change?
If we weren’t changing, they wouldn’t be panicking
Except there's actually more registered Democrats than Republicans in Texas.
It's not that the population is overwhelmingly conservative. It's that Texas is already one of if not THE worst state for gerrymandering and other election rigging by the corrupt state government.
This is what no one gets, we are a majority that has no voice thanks to a state that shows how you don't lose power as long as you had it...
You know how all those tech companies have been moving to Texas for all the low regulations and such? Yeah well turns out they need skilled professionals, who being educated tend to lean left.