 We fund voter protection John, I wanted to make sure you saw my team’s email. I was shocked when I saw this news. Democrats in this county in Texas couldn’t even cast their ballots because of Texas’ laws around management of polling locations. This is exactly the kind of voter suppression that Power the Vote is working to STOP.
Thank you, Kim Allen
In March, when Texas voters headed to the polls to cast their ballots in the Texas primary election, voters in one county were greeted with this sign:
In Texas, election judges, who are in charge of polling places, are appointed by the county political parties. During the March primaries, polling places in some Texas counties closed because of a shortage of election judges. That’s bad enough. But in other counties, Democratic voters couldn’t vote – anywhere, at all – because of a lack of Democratic-appointed election judges. It’s critical that we recruit Democratic election judges who are strong believers in democracy. But this hasn’t been easy. Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, states across the country have seen serious drop-offs in people willing to be election judges. This problem has been exacerbated by the new Republican voter suppression law, S.B.1, which created new threats of criminal liability for election judges and has deterred some election judges from serving again. Where does that leave us? Well, as we saw earlier in March, it left some Democratic voters unable to even cast a primary ballot on Election Day.
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