As I am sure you’ve heard, we are going to have Voter ID in Texas.  It’s a bad idea from bad men with a bad machine set on bad overdrive running on bad gas with bad breath.

B.A.D.  And UnAmerican.

Ector County is out in West Texas in the Midland / Odessa area.  There are some tough folks out there.  Most of them survive on grit alone because water is in short supply and there ain’t no food.

So, when they get mad, they get mad.

The Ector County Elections Office will soon get panic buttons designed to protect the employees in the office.

Ector County Elections Administrator Mitzi Scheible said a contract approved by commissioners on July 8 with Tyco Integrated Security would install panic buttons and an alarm system for the elections warehouse. The alarm system, Scheible said, was for residents who get too upset when they can’t vote in an election. The camera system was used as a way to better monitor their equipment.

Now, when your state government pisses off people so badly that your local government has to order panic buttons at a cost of $3,154.23 and an annual fee of $515.36, then maybe it’s time for the Texas Democratic Party to stand out front of those polls and remind people whose bad idea this was.

Of course, the cheaper alternative was to just arm election workers with some AK47s and leave them to their own devices.

Thanks to Kyle for the heads up and John for the button.