And The Winner Is …
In 2019 and 2020, there were 110 people killed and 266 injured in mass shootings in Texas. There were also 2 cases of proven voter fraud.
So, guess what the Texas Legislature is calling an emergency in Texas? Of damn course, that deathly menace of election fraud haunts bill after bill after committee meetings after testimony.
And right there you have a snapshot of the Republican Party.
Last month’s University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll found 73% of Republican voters in the state believe the results of the last U.S. election were inaccurate. At the same time, 76% of that group said the Texas results, in contrast, are accurate.
And do you know why they think Texas voting was accurate? Well, because Republicans won.
But, the Texas Lege needs a shiny ball to distract from gun violence, a crumbling infrastructure, and an electrical grid on its last legs with outrageously overpaid out of state directors overseeing it. Election reform won. Sorry about that.
Moreover, the R vote is “accurate” if we (Rs) say it is so? If not, we (Rs) will make it so? Software counts are fungible. Texas needs paper ballots. (Elsewhere too.)
A couple TX observations from Jennifer Cohn, election security advocate:
“When voting machine vendors install software updates, local officials must run a test to confirm that the update or patch is legal, ie, approved/tested/ certified by state or EAC. But they farm this out to ES&S instead. ES&S could install whatever it wants.
We only know for sure that Texas has this honor system with voting machine vendor ES&S….since ES&S wrote it into their Texas contracts….”
https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/1374470425489514500
NOTE: [Ken] “Paxton is the ‘decider’ about whether voting machine vendor ES&S & the Texas SOS get to hide the tape where ES&S was caught using an uncertified installation method.”
https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/1372780229643489282
1Utah has decided that its most important issue is the suppression of online pornography. But I’m sure they’ve got a few anti-voting bills in the pipeline, too.
https://apnews.com/article/utah-anti-porn-filter-phone-tablets-f8276e2f3e0d682bf7c317860acc2b3c
2What do these senators, most of them considered liberal Democrats, have in common?
Clinton Anderson, Birch Bayh, Phil Hart, Scoop Jackson, Mike Mansfield, Wayne Morse, Frank Church, George McGovern, Ed Muskie, Gaylord Nelson.
They voted against Ted Kennedy’s bill to stop interstate sale of all guns by mail in 1968.
So, yeah, the Democrats are coming for your penis-substitutes. Slowly but surely.
3obviously those two cases of voter fraud are far more important than mass murders. voter fraud might keep a Republican from getting elected, you can always replace a bunch of dead leachers.
4Sad to say, but with 325 millions guns in the States, and 50 million Americans with some form of mental illness, why is anyone surprised at the mass shootings? To me (a Canadian) it is more surprising that they don’t have several mass shootings a day in your country. It’s a very very sad state of affairs.
5And how many have died due to government negligence in either the pandemic or the freeze?
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