If that was the whole story, I would agree with you…but there has been a 30-year campaign of voter suppression, gerrymandering, and general fuckery that causes that number to be so low. In the 2020 election at the height of covid, Greg “piss baby” Abbott limited ballot drop-off locations to one. In smaller, traditionally more republican counties this wasn’t as bad for them…but they did this for Harris County… a very blue county with millions of residents. Texas doesn’t have drop-off boxes for absentee ballots, as some states do. Instead, to drop off a mail-in ballot in person at any location, voters must present an approved form of ID to a poll worker, and voters can’t turn in any one else’s ballot… sick gramma? fuck you drag her here to drop that shit off. Did they sue? you bet they did. did they lose? you bet they did because Texas has been fucked by the right for the last 30 years.
as a non-american, that is fun fact to me, but it was just because the texans couldn’t be bothered to vote…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election_in_California
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election_in_Texas
If that was the whole story, I would agree with you…but there has been a 30-year campaign of voter suppression, gerrymandering, and general fuckery that causes that number to be so low. In the 2020 election at the height of covid, Greg “piss baby” Abbott limited ballot drop-off locations to one. In smaller, traditionally more republican counties this wasn’t as bad for them…but they did this for Harris County… a very blue county with millions of residents. Texas doesn’t have drop-off boxes for absentee ballots, as some states do. Instead, to drop off a mail-in ballot in person at any location, voters must present an approved form of ID to a poll worker, and voters can’t turn in any one else’s ballot… sick gramma? fuck you drag her here to drop that shit off. Did they sue? you bet they did. did they lose? you bet they did because Texas has been fucked by the right for the last 30 years.