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Voters have until October 5 to update their registrations and can check their status on the Texas secretary of state’s website, at a county election office, or by mail. But with a number as high as 1.2 million people, the message may not reach many voters in time—especially if they haven’t moved and it’s the fault of a clerical error.

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[–] bunnybunny@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

This is the time to step up Americans. You are supposedly the greatest country and democracy on earth. Land of the free and home of the brave. Time to show the world what the fuck you people are made off. Are you a bunch of fucking cowards that will let this sack of shit steal your freedom from you or are going to step up and take back what’s rightfully yours?

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 4 points 2 hours ago

Individually, we're a bunch of pussy cowards.... But..

[–] monotremata@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I live 3300 km away from Texas. That's almost half again as far as Kyiv is from Paris. It's not trivial to just pop down there for a march some weekend.

[–] bunnybunny@lemmy.zip -1 points 2 hours ago

Yeah because this is only happening in Texas.. wake up man, they’re stealing the midterms

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 13 points 6 hours ago

This is exactly how Kemp managed to stay Governor of GA for a while, and why Abrams was raked over the coals for nearly going door to door urging people to register.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 19 points 7 hours ago

The fuckery works because people don’t check until its too late. This is not a new trick, they do this every 2 years. The scope may be bigger than ever, though.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 15 points 8 hours ago

Conservatives are pissing in their pants at the prospect that Texas could turn blue.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 25 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

Let me make a guess about the demographics: they weren't white

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 11 points 6 hours ago

Likely from historically blue districts.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 9 points 7 hours ago

My wife got news from a coworker who been pull off the rolls said we should check ours.

Well I did hell my son still has his and doesn't even live in the state anymore.

We also all registered independents. So Republicans think we are one of their. Even though we always vote Democrat.

[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 7 hours ago

A lot of whites vote blue. I can almost guarantee this is either indiscriminate or targeting blue voters

[–] im_fine_sandy@nord.pub 12 points 8 hours ago

Americans, now would be the time to spring into action.

[–] bradinutah@thelemmy.club 34 points 10 hours ago

Spread the word. Republicans LOVE voter suppression. Double-check your registration, especially if you're in a red state or red county. Have a plan and vote!

Republicans want us talking about the non-issue of election fraud. They don't want to talk about affordability, illegal wars, erosion of our Constitutional rights, the protection of child sexual predators by Republican Senators and House Reps, and many other way more important issues.

[–] Soulphite@reddthat.com 96 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

You know what other major political party that suppressed votes to win and went on to commit atrocious crimes against humanity?

[–] AnotherWastedHuman@retrolemmy.com 68 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

You wouldn't happen to be referring to the one with a leader that Trump's own Education Dept just compared him to, would you?

[–] Snowies@lemmy.zip 6 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

That is a terrible comparison.

Hitler was not a pedophile.

\s

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago
[–] Soulphite@reddthat.com 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

We don't know that for certain.

[–] Snowies@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

“I think therefor I am” is the only true certainty if you really want to dig down into it…

Trump is infamous for being a pedophile. Hitler is not.

Stop taking the piss from my coping mechanism please

[–] Soulphite@reddthat.com 24 points 11 hours ago

I would! In this situation we can just call them Nat-C's. They love it so much, proud to be National Christians.

[–] Hamartia@lemmy.world 13 points 11 hours ago

Operation Eagle Eye 1964: a suppression operation aimed at restricting minority voters through 'voter caging'. This was enacted by thousands of volunteers mostly at inner city ballots where they tested the literacy of voters as they turned up (literacy being a requirement, though not normally aggressively tested).

Lyndon B. Johnson still won though.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip -1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Yeah yeah. I know. I liked Bernie, too.

It's not so much that it was her time as much as it wasn't his. As in, he was ahead of his time. Now after we've experienced Trump a couple of times, Bernie's policies are a lot more palatable.

We just had to fafo first.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 17 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

"clerical error".... right.....

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

“error” means “wrong”

and it’s wrong what they’re doing