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Harris County is 1,777 square miles. It is 1.5 times the area of the state of Rhode Island. It has 4.7 million residents. It had planned to have just 12 drop boxes for mail in ballots. The Republican Governor of Texas has forced 11 of these to be be shut down and make just one location for the entire county.
Republicans are desperate because Texas is becoming a purple state.
No, just trying to keep people honest.
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She is angry because this will make it much harder for the Democrats to cheat and engage in election fraud in Travis County, and she apparently does not like that.
Well, they probably worked a long time on the way the cheating would go down, and now, this!
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More voter suppression by the GOP. They are PETRIFIED of lots of people voting.
Just out of curiosity, how is the specific decision to limit drop boxes to 1 per county going to cut down on voter fraud? I don't concede there will be massive voter fraud since there has not been any evidence of it, but even if you assume for the purpose of the question that there is voter fraud, how does going from a dozen drop boxes to one limit that fraud? What it does is make things more difficult for those who want to vote by drop box, period.
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Just out of curiosity, how is the specific decision to limit drop boxes to 1 per county going to cut down on voter fraud? I don't concede there will be massive voter fraud since there has not been any evidence of it, but even if you assume for the purpose of the question that there is voter fraud, how does going from a dozen drop boxes to one limit that fraud? What it does is make things more difficult for those who want to vote by drop box, period.
I believe Abbott is pretending to be concerned about the burden of keeping more than one voting box secure would be beyond the capability of a county.
Although there are innumerable voting places that can, apparently, be kept secure.
There is certainly a better counter-argument that having ALL YOUR EGGS in one basket is much less secure than having 12 boxes throughout the county. All someone bent on destroying all the ballots in drop boxes would only have to hit one box, not 12.
Not that anyone thought, for a minute, that Abbott is being sincere in his concern.
Harris County is 1,777 square miles. It is 1.5 times the area of the state of Rhode Island. It has 4.7 million residents. It had planned to have just 12 drop boxes for mail in ballots. The Republican Governor of Texas has forced 11 of these to be be shut down and make just one location for the entire county.
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One box in Harris Co. - 2000 square miles. They don't even bother to deny their voter suppression efforts in Texas.
With a population of 4.1 million and 2.4 million registered voters. All with the potential of having to use one drop box.
With a population of 4.1 million and 2.4 million registered voters. All with the potential of having to use one drop box.
There is three weeks of early voting in Harris County and Texas, with locations all over the county and state. If these voters are smart, they will just blow off the absentee ballots and just go vote in person at one of the early voting loactions.
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