I've spent some time with people tracking the minutiae of Texas voting registrations and voter challenges and I'm once again convinced that voter suppression is the larger story of this election
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DID U KNOW: Texas is the only state where you have to deputized in order to register voters. You have to be deputized in individual counties. If you even put an envelope w/a voter registration in the mail w/o deputization, you can be charged with a felony.
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Gets even weirder than that. The voter registrar in most Texas counties is the property tax assessor, a practice dating back to the poll tax when voting was a taxable event. Often, they ignore the duty. Turning Texas blue is all about voter reg.https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wired.com/story/flipping-texas-elections-voter-registration-tech/amp …
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