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Texas is beyond fucked.
It's a shame our registered Democrats don't actually vote. We outnumber the Republicans by 1.5m.
A truly crazy thing to say, given the systematic voter disenfranchisement the state suffers from.
There was a seven hour long line to vote in one of Houston's bluest districts. This story was further complicated, when the last person to vote in this line was targeted by the state's AG for prosecution.
Another notable case was a woman who cast a provisional ballot while out on parole. She was hit with a five-year prison sentence, which took years to overturn.
Democrats want people in Texas to vote? Maybe Biden's DOJ should have decriminalized Voting While Black within the state, while he had that power.
Where did you get that number from? Texas doesn't have party affiliation on voter registration. Affiliation is automatic when you vote in a primary and expires at the end of the calendar year, and I be surprised if we've ever had bigger turnout for the Democratic primaries during my voting-age life.
https://independentvoterproject.org/voter-stats/tx
Thanks, that's where I was assuming. Like I want to believe, given the population spread throughout the state it seems reasonable to think there should be more left-leaning voters. But take for example this blurb from that site:
But the 2024 primary turnout were 1.8M Republican ballots and 831k Democratic ballots. And that's actually up vs the 725k Democratic primary ballots in 2020 (vs ~1.9M Republic ballots that year)! So that doesn't add up.
We do know that there are otherwise-Democratic voters who vote in the Republican primaries because the districts are gerrymandered such that the primary is basically the real election (looking at me here).
I wish they would give more info than this.
Yeah, I was hoping they'd go into more detail about how they got their numbers in the link at the top of the page, but no such luck.
but they do purposely employ voter supression measures in democratic areas, so the non-affiliation doesnt matter anyways.
in texas DEMOCRATS are heavily voter suppressed, compared to other states.
The Repubs rejoice about that, as well as making it harder to vote.
Texas, the One Star State.
and frozen from time to time. i assume they still have feral hog problems in the state.