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No one is that poor or uneducated to not have a photo ID on them considering you need a photo ID for so many things these days.
Exactly! The fact the DNC whines that it'll lose votes because of an ID law says paragraphs about their voter base, and them for that matter.
In most states it's already illegal not to have a form of image id. Even here in Cali, the land of progressivism, if you are stopped by the police and have no identification you can be arrested.
Yes, Texas is a large rural state, maybe they should make it easier for those that live in rural areas to be able to do mail in ballots. Heck, a mail in ballot program like they have in Oregon might be good for Texas since it is such a large rural state. That would make it much easier for people to vote that aren't able to make it to any polling place.
I did mail-in ballots for my home county in Texas every year while I was in college. It's pretty simple.
Anyone could handle it. Seriously, unless you just can't be bothered to crack your eggs and heat them in a skillet and the very thought of taking the cap off of a gallon of milk so that you can pour it over your cereal just makes you so tired that you can't even bear it... Then you can (i) get an ID in Texas so you can buy cigarettes, alcohol and vote or (ii) spend three or four minutes arranging for a mail-in ballot to be sent to your residence.
Yes, Texas is a large rural state, maybe they should make it easier for those that live in rural areas to be able to do mail in ballots. Heck, a mail in ballot program like they have in Oregon might be good for Texas since it is such a large rural state. That would make it much easier for people to vote that aren't able to make it to any polling place.
Well, let's be frank here. Oregon is 77 percent white, non Hispanic - and this demographic group has a 64 percent voter turnout rate nationwide. And yet, even with it's mailed in ballots and overwhelmingly non Hispanic population, it's voter turnout is usually about 60 percent.
So...I don't know. The Hispanic population in Texas tends to be very insular the further southwest one goes. There's a HUGE difference between the interactions of Hispanics with other demographic groups in, say, northeast Texas, and the interactions between groups in San Antonio. It's a challenging ethnic group to reach but at least we all get along pretty well.
I'm not sure where that figure comes from, unless you mean that about 600,000 people who actually do not have the legal right to vote in Texas will be excluded.
Is anyone doing that? I haven't heard any state or local officials say anything like that.
I mean, I said I can't help what other people or families do when it comes to voting - but I guess I mean I am not going to do anything other than encourage people I know to vote - which I do on a regular basis. I have signed up to help at the polling booths here during this election as well, which is a bit more "participation" than most people anywhere get involved in.
I am not asking what you personally have done, I am asking what the state of Texas has done. Your responses have made it sound like Texas has no interest in trying to increase their voter participation.
I'm not sure where that figure comes from, unless you mean that about 600,000 people who actually do not have the legal right to vote in Texas will be excluded.
It is in the article that I was commenting on, you are free to check to see where they got that number from.
I did mail-in ballots for my home county in Texas every year while I was in college. It's pretty simple.
Anyone could handle it. Seriously, unless you just can't be bothered to crack your eggs and heat them in a skillet and the very thought of taking the cap off of a gallon of milk so that you can pour it over your cereal just makes you so tired that you can't even bear it... Then you can (i) get an ID in Texas so you can buy cigarettes, alcohol and vote or (ii) spend three or four minutes arranging for a mail-in ballot to be sent to your residence.
It sounds like the restrictions for mail in ballots in Texas makes it much harder to do that than it is to vote in person. I could be wrong, but that is what it sounded when I read the requirements.
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