• CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    Doubt it, I’m not convinced Texas has three brain cells to share amongst themselves. They’ve had stronger candidates than Talarico in the past and still re-elected Cancun Cruz.

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      Beto had a decent chance until he said he was coming for the AR-15s. I mean at least let your opponents say that, don’t feed them the sound byte.

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        “I’d rather vote for a guy who skips a tenth of his votes, hikes the electric bill, and tried to overthrow a presidential election before I’d give up weapons used (repeatedly) to slaughter school children”

        Mhmm yep. Very normal society.

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        The exit polls showed that Beto won the vote for the Senate race among native born Texans. So despite all the bad stuff people say about Texas, it’s really all of those immigrants from other states that are ruining Texas.

        And Ken Paxton is one of the most corrupt politicians in Texas. There’s a good chance that if he leaves office, he’ll be arrested by federal authorities soon afterwards, you know, if there’s not a corrupt person in the White House. Paxton was impeached by the Texas legislature unanimously.

        So, Paxton has kind of shot himself in the foot by being so openly corrupt. Hopefully it will be enough.

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          I first started complaining about this back in 2000, when it was said that all you needed to shift an election was 5 minutes alone with one of these machines and a USB drive. Of course everybody was calling me paranoid. You don’t even need a USB drive now.

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              I’ve seen maybe two other images of the “Party = D, Senator = Cruz” ballot “error”, but that’s the only one I saved (also because I know who took it).

              When I went back to see what had come from the “investigation”, my heart just sank when I saw that the press had simply swallowed the line given to them by the Abbott-appointed Texas Secretary of State: “oops, no big deal”.

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                Who did the person who took this send it too? Did they name the county responsible for their elections? If this is real, I’m having a hard time understanding how I would have never seen it as a Texan plugged into subversive communities

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                  2 months ago

                  Lady I know from Twitter posted it on there, and took it in Harris County.

                  And I don’t know why you’re so concerned about its veracity; the issue was widely reported on in Texas during the 2018 election. Search for that election and the phrase “vote flipping” and you should find out all you need to know-- well, at least all that Texas election officials were willing to admit to.

                  The same thing happened in Cruz’s 2012 election-- same voting machine manufacturer, too-- although it was more widely reported on in 2018. They’ve cheated for him twice now.

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                    2 months ago

                    I searched as instructed on duck duck go and there wasn’t a single hit on this topic on the first 3 pages of search results. Do you have any links at all?

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        Things being shitty is not a new phenomenon. This state is a petri dish example of 30+ years of gop policies and mistakes. All that time, and the state literally re-elected the pos that went for vacation while their neighbors froze to death. I hope to see change but texas is entirely “wish I knew how to quit you” with them.