New Texas voting rules causing high number
of ballot rejections
Posted By: Ribicon, 2/12/2022 3:55:13 PM
Election supervisors in Texas have warned that new stricter voter ID requirements ahead of next month’s state governor’s primary have already resulted in an uncharacteristically high number of ballot rejections. Voting rights activists have expressed fears that new laws making access to the vote more difficult–that have been passed in many states across the US by Republicans–will impact Democrat-leaning voters of color. According to officials in media reports, as many as 40% of roughly 3,600 returned ballots in Harris county, Texas’ most populous county that incorporates Houston, have lacked the identification number required under Senate Bill 1, a Republican-sponsored bill designed to tie voters to valid IDs.
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Disallowing voter fraud is fundamentally un-American, say the communists, pointing to the poor disenfranchised blacque eternal victims they use as human shields to mask their crime.