Submitted 5 weeks ago by RagingHungryPanda@lemm.ee to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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Oof. I checked mine three times this cycle to be sure. Never know when some awful mistake, like voting in a Democratic primary, will get your TX Voter info deleted.
You know, though, since we’re mostly left-leaning around these parts, just tell me the secret code and I’ll meet you at a basement in the People’s Republic of Austin and we’ll discuss getting three non-citizens to vote however you’d like, and then we can dine on the flesh of Christians to celebrate!
How are you guys looking on adrenochrome down that way? Supply shortages have hit us hard on the east coast. I’d kill for some fresh, virginal blood right about now.
I’d kill for some fresh, virginal blood right about now.
ISWYDT. Congratulations to you for your dark cleverness, fellow leftist devil!
Unfortunately, it’s not much better here. The annoyingly heroic Governor Abbott has heroically deployed the heroic Texas Military Department and is disrupting our usual channels along the Rio Grande, both for commodity Catholics, and for nefarious agents to procure high-end evangelical targets in Sugar Land and Southlake. On the plus side, the lack of fresh victims is stressing our natural rivals the Chupacabras, so once we stuff the ballot box and then eliminate all those who stand in our way, Stanley in logistics says things will be back to normal fairly soon, as the extraction facilities in the Planned Parenthood clinics have not yet been seized. Remember to keep an eye out for the distribution points marked out with the “Y’all means All” Pride flags!
Daddy Gates said it’s my turn to control the weather this time!
Only degreed meteorologists are allowed to control the weather, Jimmy!
dine on the flesh of Christians
Hard pass.
Too much fat, I’m on a diet.
Oh, you fool. Christians are part of the body of Christ, and communion involves eating of the body of Christ, and communion is entering into a convenant as a living member of the body of Christ…
Don’t eat the Christians. That’s how it spreads.
That’s it, it hurricaneing time texas
…here’s the thing most folks don’t realise: as a metropolitan area, austin is far more conservative than san antonio…
~(we meet in the basement of the alamo)~
THE STARS AT NIGHT!
Voter suppression go brrrrrr
Edit/Update: It turns out that my last name has a capitol letter in the middle and they put a space in it. Thank god. I can actually vote this year.
17.5: People’s names aren’t written in camelCase
Those are the kinds of inconsistencirs the GOP use to accuse you of voter fraud, even if you correct it. Don’t be surprised if some GOP busybody adds your name to a list of voter registrations to purge. Whenever they talk about voting irregularities and a rigged election, this is exactly the kind of voter disenfranchisement that they are trying to accomplish. Hell, question enough votes and you can get the votes of an entire region thrown out. You don’t need any proof to make the accusations, then they massive shit sandwich gets dropped in the lap of a few underpaided and understaffed people to substantiate. I recommend you vote as early as possible and follow up to make sure your vote gets counted.
Alexander De Large?
Something like that, except it’d be DeLarge and it’s in the system with a space and apparently case-insensitive
by the way if you vote by mailing it in, in Florida your vote could be denied without you even knowing.
They verify the signatures and a lot of recent young adults never really had a proper signature, it also happens that a lot of youth vote blue.
Invalidating a vote based on signature analysis sounds like a recipe for a MASSIVE probe into election integrity.
Won’t matter if it pushes it past Jan 6th and the vote isn’t certified.
Not a Texan, but here in Missouri, you can request your absentee ballot as early as 9/24 this year.
I requested mine, waited two weeks, and it never arrived. So last week I requested another, and I’m waiting for it. I do think there’s some fuckery afoot with the mail, so I’m probably going to be stuck voting absentee in-person at my local election board.
Mail-in voting isn’t allowed for most Texans. There are only a few very specific exceptions.
One of those exceptions is to be 65 years or older. Guess who that disproportionately benefits?
That’s shitty. I’m sorry to hear it.
Made me go check mine and I don’t live in texas.
Important: If you’re on the suspese list rather than being fully removed, you can still vote but will need to show proof of residence. Contact your registrar to check that and ask them about it
If voters find out they’re still on the suspended list after having shown up at their polling places on Election Day, they can still vote after they complete a “statement of residence” form.
Voters with suspended status who may have moved to other counties will be required to vote in the counties where they previously resided or may be asked to submit provisional ballots.
Yes, my husband was on the suspended list in our county for years, despite us owning the same home since 2013. He’d even fill out the little address verification card and send it back, stating that the location on record was still valid. Didnt matter, because every single election he would still pop up “suspended” at the polls. He had his TDL, and he’d have to fill out an extra form, but he’d be allowed to vote.
This year, I decided enough was enough and we put our house up for sale, because once I leave Texas this time, I’m not coming back.
I contacted our county registrars office to get our VUIDs so I could update our new address at our rental, and we found out he just…didnt have a VUID? They had no record of him voting in Texas at all…yet he’s been able to vote with a “suspended” status with his TDL for years now…living at an address he hasnt deviated from since he originally registered in Texas.
Honestly, I think he was just finally removed since he’d been in “suspended” so long 🤷♀️. Im unsure if it was a legit mistake, or if some genuine fuckery was going on.
But we’re all gucci now. Both confirmed registration again back in September. Awaiting 21 Oct with bated breath!
That doesn’t look like the site specifically for TX. Not sure if there might be something that could cause another site to report an error.
Double check at
www.votetexas.gov
You’ll need to enter your TDL (Texas Driver’s License Number) and date of birth after clicking the “Am I Registered?” button
Yep, not found
I was hoping you’d be able to find it.
Maybe you can contact your county registrar and see what happened. The deadline for voter registration for the presidential election was October 7. Maybe there’s something that can be done.
That’s fucking dumb. I hope you’re able to rectify it. Sorry you have to deal with that shit.
I’m going through the same shit in Indiana. Waiting on a response grim my local office.
Grim indeed.
Ha, didn’t notice that typo.
Hell, I’m in NY and my partner’s voter registration keeps getting reset to an old address she doesn’t live at any more. She’s fixed it like three times this year.
Online voting what could go wrong
Please. Please tell me no one is actually considering online voting. There’s no way to maintain anonymity and vote integrity.
@thefartographer@lemm.ee Have you checked yours? Mine is all good.
Yup! Mine and every voting age member of my family in San Antonio! Thanks for checking
Apparently there are more Texans around than we initially thought.
hell mine is in “suspense” because “the registrar is unsure of my residential address”. been here for nearly 4 years and my DL is up to date for 3.5 of them. looked up my info and they still have me in the old county rolls. can i vote in the old county while actually living in the new one?
To be safe itnsounds like younhave to register to vote every year.
Just donit when its the “spring forward” part of daylight savings.
Or everytime you’re stopped outside a grocery store by the person with the clipboard.
Definitely check voter registration. Quick and easy at state or county website. And register any change of address (along with updating ID, DL).
I usually remember to check about a month before election, or when I see a new illegal “voter purge” in the news (always GOP).
April Fool’s is another potential reminder if it works for anybody :)
we hrd u lik fredum so we freed u frm votg
Hubi@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
As a European, the whole registering to vote thing is honestly one of the wildest parts of the US elections to me. It’s just so unnecessary complicated and prone to errors/manipulation. I just show up with my ID, doesn’t matter if it’s for the EU parliament or my the city senate in my hometown.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
It’s by design. We could make it easier, but certain groups benefit from making it difficult.
match@pawb.social 5 weeks ago
In conclusion, please send the UN to fix us
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
It’s wild.
There are some local and state governments trying to pass automatic voter registration, but it’s an uphill battle, not unlike most things that would generally benefit the public good in this country.
b34k@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Even in California, we got automatic voter registration passed the legislature, only for the governor to veto it.
Just wild that something so fundamental to a functioning democracy is so divisive.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
There’s never been a United States ID card, for… reasons. As a Californian, I could get a California ID card, at the same place I got my California Driver’s License, if I didn’t intend to drive. The forms have the option of adding Voter Registration using the same information (birth certificate, proof of residence) at the same time. But some states make it all much more complicated.
elephantium@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Passport seems like it sorta fits, but it’s hardly universal.
myrrh@ttrpg.network 5 weeks ago
…what the electorate consider a bug the politicians consider a feature…
actually@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
So… I’m in Texas , been here a long time.
most ballot counts in the primaries and general are counted by secret software and hardware run by ultra conservative families the last 20 plus years. Recounts are not allowed and exit polls not used anymore because of unpredictability.
Nobody cares, no political party wants to change : not a topic in forums anywhere, even in conspiracy minded chat rooms, and it’s been this way forever ( since before 2000).
There is a ton of crazy that is ignored .
I’ve seen how the system works, I’ve been at the county chair level. Nobody will criticize it . There is a quiet culture of people knowing it’s invalid but decide to leave it be.
kent_eh@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
That’s why it exists - to make it more inconvenient for people (especially in certain demographics) to vote.
eldavi@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
the sound bites you hear about voting are intentionally misleading: you have to show up with an id to vote here too and that’s not where to controversy lies.
the controversy is registering to vote and the conservative states intentionally make registering as heavily bureaucratic as possible in the hopes of minimizing the number of people who cant register to vote.
they’ve also dedicated hundreds of millions on dollars to understand an enact policies to keep the poor and minority groups from voting.
democrats sit back and let republicans openly do it.
Devdogg@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
Hold on, I’m in MN and we don’t have to show our ID to vote.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
It’s overblown. It’s mostly propaganda.
My ID is good for 5 years, and I am required to update it within 60 days of changing residences. Every time I’ve renewed or updated it, they have asked me if I wanted to register or update my voter registration. My registration is updated every time I vote, and I don’t get de-registered unless I skip voting for about a decade straight, without re-registering when I renew my ID card.
ALL of the problems with voter registration are about people who either can’t or won’t get or renew their ID card. Every time you read about voter registration issues in the US, you should imagine going to your polling station without a current ID card.
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
That’s called privilege. You literally don’t realize what a burden it is for some people to comply with voter registration requirements, because your life is such that it’s easy for you.
I could try and explain it, but in my experience every example I give, you’ll take out of context and come up with a simple fix. Because you aren’t able to understand the cumulative effect of thousands of these examples all happening all the time. You’ll just pick each one, imagine it happening to you in your life once, and think “oh that’s not a big deal I could handle that”. But it’s death by a thousand cuts. “That” is not a one time aberration. Your whole life is nothing but “that”.
You just have to believe those of us more experienced in that kind of hardship than you.
Or, alternatively, believe the Republicans who have been caught on a hot mic saying that they implent voter ID laws specifically to suppress Dem votes.
turtletracks@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
“I’ve had no issues, therefore issues don’t exist”
ImminentOrbit@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Except, the whole point of this thread is an example of that not being the case.
Badeendje@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Yeah but we have voter id. And for some reason Americans think it is unreasonable to have to have a government issued ID as this would disenfranchise all the people that don’t have an ID… Which I think is also weird. Just make IDs accessible to citizens at low costs and implement voterID across the board.
billiam0202@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
A certain political party benefits from low voter turnout. Which, coincidentally, also happens to be the party working to get Trump elected and shield him from the repercussions of his crimes.
mle86@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
They could just make a government ID that is not mandatory. Much like a passport. And whoever holds a passport or a voluntary govt ID is automatically enabled to vote using their ID / passport, but then would still leave the choice of registering for voting for those who don’t trust “the government”
Revan343@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
This is where you’re missing it. The point of requiring voter ID in America is to make it as difficult and inaccessible as they can
faercol@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
Depends on the country though. In France you must be registered to vote (you’re assigned a specific voting office). It’s a single registration foe everything, not for each vote
Although the process is online, and takes like 5mins.
You also get a voting card, but it’s technically optional, it just speeds up the process in the voting office.
abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Just want to add, in the US you’d don’t have to register to vote each election/vote, just when you change address.
GBU_28@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Imagine you moved countries, and we’re entitled to vote in both.
You have to tell the new country you exist there.
That’s the most common failure mode in the US, when you move states or even counties and there’s a miscommunication or lack of communication between where you came from and where you are.
There are other issues, but this is the most common.
You don’t vote at a federal level, you vote at a state level, for federal stuff. (And state/local stuff)
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
I think for most people in the US when you move you have to get a new driver’s license, and that process also lets you register to vote
skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 5 weeks ago
leadore@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I see comments like this a lot. Most important and apparently most difficult for Europeans (and others but it’s almost always Europeans) to understand is that the US is a very large country, made up of 50 semi-independent states, each with its own government and laws-- about many things, not just elections. So that’s why things are more complex here–we’re not a small monolithic nation with one single, centralized government and set of laws that apply to everyone no matter where in the country they live.
Each US State runs its own elections; a person obviously can’t be allowed to vote in more than one state. Since people can move from one state to another at any time, and even have residences in more than one state at the same time (such as college students and well-off people), it’s necessary to register with the state you will be voting in, so that you are officially able to vote in that state and no other.
DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
You do realize some countries in Europe have federal governments (Germany for example), right? And then these completely independent countries are part of the EU which have EU elections. So you have federation within federation. Also, the EU has higher population than the USA. We don’t even all speak the same language. You are allowed to move between EU countries whenever you like and have residence where you please.
So what is your excuse again?
drkt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
In a incredible stroke of irony, you just described the European Union