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I guess it’s a matter of priorities. The TX legislature seems to be moving with a quickness to get voter suppression bills passed.

thegrim33 5y ago
Yes, securing elections is important.
- Finnucane 5y ago
  Yeah, that’s totally it.
- tzs 5y ago
  Here are the things in the Texas changes that voter rights groups are upset over. Which of these actually have anything to do with securing elections? • Bans drive-through voting. • Cuts the allowed hours for early voting. Some counties had been having some early voting days with extended hours (including 24 hours in Harris county) to make it easier for shift workers who could not get off work during normal early voting hours to vote. • A recent version changed the formula for determining how many polling places to have on election day, but only for counties over a certain population limit. It would greatly reduce the number of places to vote in those counties (which, no doubt coincidentally, are counties that tend to vote Democratic and the reductions are largely in black and Latino areas of those counties). (I think this one was removed in the House, but was still on the table for the reconciliation between the House and Senate). They have failed to document any security issues related to any of these, or even offered any plausible hypothesis as to how they could cause security problems. The only thing that actually ties all the things they are changing together is that when done in Democratic counties they increase turnout, especially minority turnout. It's pretty hard to believe that this is just a coincidence.
fudblah 5y ago
I like this constant FUD. India a country of billion people and way less infra can get everyone a voter id, and so-called Hacker news whose theme is to present solutions constantly spreads did because it aligns with their political "beliefs".
- tzs 5y ago
  The bill Texas is about to enact does not make any changes to their existing voter ID requirements as far as I know.

thegrim33 5y ago

Yes, securing elections is important.

Finnucane 5y ago
Yeah, that’s totally it.
tzs 5y ago
Here are the things in the Texas changes that voter rights groups are upset over. Which of these actually have anything to do with securing elections? • Bans drive-through voting. • Cuts the allowed hours for early voting. Some counties had been having some early voting days with extended hours (including 24 hours in Harris county) to make it easier for shift workers who could not get off work during normal early voting hours to vote. • A recent version changed the formula for determining how many polling places to have on election day, but only for counties over a certain population limit. It would greatly reduce the number of places to vote in those counties (which, no doubt coincidentally, are counties that tend to vote Democratic and the reductions are largely in black and Latino areas of those counties). (I think this one was removed in the House, but was still on the table for the reconciliation between the House and Senate). They have failed to document any security issues related to any of these, or even offered any plausible hypothesis as to how they could cause security problems. The only thing that actually ties all the things they are changing together is that when done in Democratic counties they increase turnout, especially minority turnout. It's pretty hard to believe that this is just a coincidence.

fudblah 5y ago

I like this constant FUD. India a country of billion people and way less infra can get everyone a voter id, and so-called Hacker news whose theme is to present solutions constantly spreads did because it aligns with their political "beliefs".

tzs 5y ago
The bill Texas is about to enact does not make any changes to their existing voter ID requirements as far as I know.