#Texas voter suppression

[liberalsarecool]

Voter fraud and election fraud are unilaterally Republican mission statements.

They admit it.

[unofficial-project-2025]

Make sure to check your voter's registration regularly! Reblog so that more people may become aware of this!

EDIT: Gonna had a tip here to tell that, since this was probably done so that republicans could stop people from voting blue, it might be a good idea to register as R this year and then vote blue. Better safe than sorry IMO.

[gwydionmisha]

Check your registration every month if you live in a Red State.

If you live in Texas check Right Now!

[actualrealnews]

Signal boost: There is no online votor registration in the state of Texas

The website will appear to accept the form, but it does not. You must print and mail the form.

OR

Go to the county clerrk's office, ask for the votor registration form, fill it out, and hand it in.

Source: MySanAntonio

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Matt Keeley at NCRM:

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton threatened to sue two large, Democratic-leaning counties should they proceed with their plan to mail voter registration forms to eligible voters who are currently unregistered. Bexar and Harris counties have proposed using third-party vendors to mail the forms. Though the plan is to only send them to people who are eligible to be registered, Paxton said that the forms could fall in the hands of those who are ineligible to vote, which would “encourage” them to register illegally, according to KSAT-TV. “At worst, it may induce the commission of a crime by encourage individuals who are ineligible to vote to provide false information on the form,” Paxton said, according to KENS-TV. “Either way, it is illegal, and if you move forward with this proposal, I will use all available legal means to stop you.”

Bexar and Harris counties both have high Latino populations, with nearly 20% of all Texan Latinos living in Harris County, according to The Hill. Paxton has faced accusations of specifically trying to suppress the Latino vote. Following raids on the homes of Latino voting activists, the League of United Latin American Citizens called for an inquiry into alleged civil rights violations, according to USA Today. At least six LULAC volunteers had their homes raided by police, and had voter registration materials seized, along with phones, computers and other electronic devices, USA Today reported. Paxton said the search warrants were “part of an ongoing election integrity investigation” into “allegations of election fraud and vote harvesting that occurred during the 2022 elections.” LULAC says one of the people raided was Lidia Martinez, an 87-year-old member of the organization. On August 20, her home was raided, and she was interrogated for hours, according to LULAC. There is no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2022 elections in Texas or elsewhere in the United States. Paxton’s most recent probe, despite the raids, has led to no charges thus far, according to the Texas Tribune.

Texas AG Ken Paxton (R) is a jackboot fascist disgrace to the Lone Star State and America.

[readingsquotes]

Now Paxton has shifted his mode of attack, enlisting the help of a Republican DA who “referred” a case to his office. I’m curious to know on what grounds, and whether there was any coordination at work. Paxton has now used that referral as a pretext to conduct raids on the homes and offices of Latino voting activists claiming “voter fraud.” Among the targets are Democratic leaders and election volunteers. They’ve had their cell phones, computers and documents seized, and ordinary citizens are now embroiled in costly criminal cases.

Make no mistake: The charges are political and are intended to intimidate and to suppress votes under the guise of “secure elections.” Latino civil rights groups have asked the Justice Department to intervene.

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Paxton’s latest deplorable move

With the courts telling him he couldn’t pursue election fraud charges on his own, Paxton shifted gears. He enlisted the help of Republican District Attorney Audrey Gossett Louis in the 81st Judicial District in Texas. That includes Atascosa and Frio Counties, where some of the recent raids were conducted.

The New York Times published an account of some of the raids. Some raids were conducted on actual candidates running for office:

On Tuesday…officers raided the home of Cecilia Castellano, a Democrat running against Don McLaughlin, the former mayor of Uvalde, for a state House seat, taking her cellphone. Ms. Castellano described her experience as “very frightening” and said she still did not know why she was targeted. “This is all political,” she said.

Police also broke down a door and raided the home of Manuel Medina, a consultant for Castellano’s campaign. Medina is also chair of the Tejano Democrats, a group advocating for greater Hispanic representation in the Democratic Party.

Elderly residents were also targeted, including Lidia Martinez, an 87-year old retired educator in San Antonio:

Nine officers, seven of them men, some with guns in their holsters, then pushed open the door and marched past a living room wall decorated with crucifixes, she said. “I got scared,” she recalled in an interview on Sunday, speaking in both English and Spanish. “They told me, ‘We have a warrant to search your house.’ I said, ‘Why?’ I felt harassed.” Ms. Martinez said that the officers told her they came because she had filled out a report saying that older residents were not getting mail ballots. “Yes, I did,” she told them. For 35 years, Ms. Martinez has been a member of LULAC, the civil rights group, helping Latino residents stay engaged in politics. Much of her work has included instructing older residents and veterans on how to fill out voter registration cards. “I go to a lot of senior events; I explain to them what they have to do,” she said. “I’ve been involved in politics all of my life.”

Reactions from Latino elected leaders have been swift and, understandably, full of outrage. State Senator Roland Gutierrez could barely contain his anger, claiming “Crooked Ken Paxton” had targeted and terrorized seniors in his district.

[fionatheicicle]

Heads up tx has suspended over two million voter registrations.

[nodynasty4us]

At the start of this item, we proposed that Abbott and Paxton are as bad as the segregationists of the 1950s and 1960s. Now that we think about it, is there even a distinction? Whether it's Ken Paxton or George Wallace, they're doing everything they can to keep Black and brown people from voting.

Electoral-vote.com

[surrexi]

gonna take some xanax and go to bed.

[macwantspeace]

The good ol boys network has a stress: Texas population now has about the same amount of folks who identify as white, and those who identify as Hispanic. My ballot is printed english/spanish. My apartment manager sends a mass text in spanish, then english. So Ken Paxton did armed morning raids on the Get Out The Vote people. Just the Democratic ones. He's demanding Fed investigate ActBlue for suspicious activity. Now he's got this idea that 500,000 registered voters might not be citizens. He's demanding the Fed verify each and every one for him. Fed says that ain't their job, go read the list of naturalized citizens on their website.

[originalleftist]

VOTER REGISTRATION deadline for the 2024 US general election is TOMORROW (October 7th) in the following states:

Depending on which polls and analysts you look at, anywhere from three to five of those are major swing states.

If you are eligible to vote in one of these states, and you have not registered, OR have not checked your voter registration recently, DO IT RIGHT NOW.

Your vote matters.

If it didn't, they wouldn't try so hard to stop you from using it.

Don't let yourself be disenfranchised because you waited too long to make sure your name hadn't been purged from the voting roles.

Please also reblog and share this widely.

[harriswalz4usabybr]

Speech Governor Walz gave at Campaign Rally in Dallas, TX!

~BR~

[unofficial-project-2025]

Quick reminder for everyone

Please mmake sure to register to vote for this year, and tell everyone to do the same!

Yes, Kamala has become more popular in the polls, but we still need to vote for her to win!

So tell everyone to register, check your registration regularly to make sure it's not been suspended/purged, and reblog this post to spread the information!

[agnesandhilda]

I love the idea of a blue texas but let's be real, with the "biden stole the election" narrative still going strong and especially with its manifestation in ken paxton's crackdowns on voting, especially the voting of people of color/groups that historically tend to vote democrat, there is no way in hell a democrat majority vote win in texas wouldn't whip up a frenzy of election denialism never before seen