Breaking News Oops.
Remember when Rick Perry endorsed Ted Cruz?
Yeah, he endorsed Ted but that didn’t include voting for him.
Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry may have stumped for Ted Cruz for president but there’s no record he voted in this year’s Republican primary in Texas. A spokesman for Perry suggested his ballot may have been lost in the mail.
Perry is registered to vote in Fayette county, south of Austin. The county clerk insists that Perry requested a mail ballot and came in to pick it up in person. Yeah, in freekin’ person.
Fayette County Elections Administrator Dina Bell confirmed by email on Tuesday that Perry requested a mail-in ballot for the March 1 Republican primary and one was given to him on Feb. 1. Bell recalled that Perry showed up in person to get it but her office never received the completed ballot.
You can’t do that. That’s called voter fraud. The ballot must be mailed to you.
Now, there’s some folks who think that Perry purposefully did not vote in the GOP primary so he would be able to run as an independent for president. That story is blown because Perry claims he did vote but it got lost in the mail. We’ll take him at his word and say he did vote. It just didn’t count. You know, exactly like his presidential supporters. They voted but it didn’t count. I’m sure Rick’s used to that by now. It’s probably his theme song.
Yeah, I have notified the proper authorities. I called Glen Maxey.
… more to come.
Glen Maxey is certainly more authoritative than the GOP twits running elections in Texas!
1In Michigan, you request an absentee ballot and it can be mailed. OR you show up and actually vote right then and there, and they seal it up and get it to the proper precinct. Lord, Texas is truly messed up. Thanks, GOP!
2Can’t wait!
3Sic’em, Glen!
4If Glen Maxey can;t fix it, it can’t be fixed.
5Glen, please take no prisoners!
6Oops! Perry is such a slimeball. The idea that his party rails about ‘voter fraud’ in Texas as a reason to refuse to pass online voter registration into law. This is a prime example of the untouchable attitude of Texas Republicans. I betcha his picture is in the dictionary next to corrupt politicians. Have you heard about his paid gig with MCNA, one of the HHSC’s Managed Care Orgs that administer Medicaid and CHIP for the state? My sources at MCNA tell me his role is to advocate for Medicaid. The very man who denied Medicaid expansion, as part of the ACA, to hundreds of thousands of Texans!! You can’t make this stuff up, folks.
7Lord love a duck!
8Yeah Glen!
9Texans with mail ballots are welcome to return them in person. Or, they can relinquish their mail ballot to their election judge during early voting or on Election Day. Then, they can vote in person. (The ballot will be voided and returned to the county elections office.)
10Thankfully, Juanita Jean is on the ball and knew we aren’t allowed to pick them up in person. Even better, she notified Mr. Maxey. I’ll sleep better tonight just knowing this.
Texas courts are stacked, they’ve got Perry’s back,and A-Butt’s,and the AG and all the rest.
11I love Texas! The drama, it BERNS!
12I’m a-plotting. We all know that Rick plays fast and loose.
13And sometimes he’s faster and loser when it comes to thumbing his nose at laws that every other senior citizen must follow.
Why did a county clerk hand out a vote-by-mail ballot? (Yes, I know, because she was confronted with Rick Perry in person, which is bound to cause anyone to get flustered and make mistakes.) But yeah, Perry should have known you aren’t supposed to pick one up.
14It may be illegal in TX, but here in lovely CT you can pick it up in person with ID (not a picture ID, we’re crazy socialists up here).
15I have been tinkering with the idea of voting by mail this year as I have had another birthday and the 2012 presidential election crowd at the polling place was so huge some kind person had me sit in a chair – and I was younger then! One big thing: will my vote actually be counted or will it be thrown away? Who does the counting and when? I definitely want Hill to be the first woman President of the US of A.
16Has Perry been nailed to a cross and martyred, yet?
17After 65 years of using USPS, I never believe the “lost in the mail” lie.
18@epo
I don’t want little pRicky nailed to a cross or martyred. I wanted him kicked down a several flights of stairs like a Slinky.
19Micr-:)
20True story. One spring we found a missing Round Robin letter when the snow melted. I got fussed at for months about losing that precious document. (If you don’t know what a Round Robin letter is, ask your grandma.)
21Steve@ #18,
Not only that, but the village Post Office in Perry’s very small Fayette County hometown, like all the small Post Offices I’m familiar with (and probably larger ones), have a special mail drop-in chute for LOCAL mail (assuming the voter type mail goes local/in the same ZIP).
Using it bypasses the local mail from having to go to one of those major USPS sorting centers (to Houston or San Antonio, or maybe Austin, if it has a regional sort center).
Don’t know if all the voter stuff needs to be done in the county seat, La Grange, but Fayette isn’t a very big county (I’ve written of often commuting through there, they have a biannual ‘flea market’ that is an amazing thing, if you need to drive in it).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fayette_County,_Texas
22“The Fayette County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, the population was 24,554.[1] Its county seat is La Grange.”
Well, I’ll be. Election Code Sec. 86.003: “METHOD OF PROVIDING BALLOT TO VOTER: REQUIRED ADDRESS. (a) The balloting materials for voting by mail shall be provided to the voter by mail. A ballot provided by any other method may not be counted.”
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