Texas passes voter integrity law, liberal media hardest hit
Did you know that the world ended yesterday? Kind of snuck up on ya, didn’t it? It seems that evil Republicans are conspiring to deny the right to vote to women and minorities in Texas by passing a law that has the temerity to suggest that no one should be allowed to vote who isn’t who they say they are.
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At any rate, after Republicans passed the new voting integrity law, the ground opened up, the dead began to walk, fire and brimstone fell from the sky — you know the rest. Positively biblical, if you listen to the left. We’re doomed.
Naturally, the guardians of American democracy — or, at least, their version of it — are upset.
The legislation takes aim in particular at Harris County, a growing Democratic bastion that includes Houston and is the nation’s third most populous county. The legislation forbids balloting methods that the county introduced last year to make voting easier during the pandemic, including drive-through polling places and 24-hour voting, as well as temporary voting locations.
It also bars election officials from sending voters unsolicited absentee ballot applications and from promoting the use of vote by mail. The bill greatly empowers partisan poll watchers, creates new criminal and civil penalties for poll workers and erects new barriers for those looking to help voters who need assistance, such as with translations. It requires large Texas counties — where Democrats perform better — to provide livestreaming video at ballot-counting locations.
And this “restricts voting” how? No black people or people of any color are barred from voting. If you need a ballot in a foreign language you can still get it. As far as making voting “easier,” is that always a good thing? What if by making voting “easier” you make it easier to cheat? Democrats never address that part of the equation, they never offer alternatives that would prioritize ballot security.
Even a cursory reading of the history of American elections shows widespread and shocking fraud and cheating. To pretend it doesn’t happen today is out and out lunacy.
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Even something as simple as asking for voter ID — a driver’s license, state ID, military ID, or passport — is portrayed as Bull Connor hosing down black people to keep them from voting. It’s absurd. It’s insane. And it’s got to stop.
This wild, hysterical, exaggerated rhetoric that suggests grandma won’t be able to vote because early voting won’t be open 24 hours is ludicrous.
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The hysteria is overwrought. Voting in Texas has always been easy and this law does nothing to make it harder. Early voting that is allowed takes care of the inconvenience of having to vote on election day. I think mail-in ballots are a mistake that does make it easier for Democrats to cheat. I get the impression that Democrats have a low regard for their voter's ability to get up off the sofa and go vote.
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