In Bexar County, for instance, only eight people voted by mail, according to the state’s site. In reality, according to Michele Carew, the county’s election administrator, nearly 18,000 people have cast ballots by mail.
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In person vote totals have also lagged. Election officials in Fort Bend County – one of the state’s most competitive districts – reported more than 75,000 ballots cast in person as of Friday morning while the state’s website shows just over 41,000.
Local election officials said they are still confident in the state’s election night reporting system, which functioned without any issues or delay in the March primary, but are frustrated the turnout numbers aren’t being accurately reported.
“It’s not that we haven’t entered the data, it’s just not reflecting here,” said Kristin Miles, the election administrator in Bastrop County and the president of the Texas Association of County Election Officials, referring to the Secretary of State’s portal.
My historically-informed intuition tells me the discrepancy is due to Republican ratfucking.
A lot easier to convince people of fraud if the numbers aren’t close
I guarantee you that Republicans will claim election fraud regardless of the election results.
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When Trump won in '16 and '24, he claimed there was voter fraud that keep him from an even bigger landslide
Actually, I think it will be the other way.
They’d say that in spite of massive election fraud, the public came through for them and that the numbers would have been much higher but they couldn’t get all the fraud.
Then it leads into them pushing for more ICE murders, beatings and removing all human protections.
Yep, this is the Republican way.
They’d claim fraud regardless.
Yeah, that gives them a pretext to harass the Dems afterwards. Expect another wave of malicious prosecutions on Trumped-up charges.
No, they say “we won despite their best attempts at fraud.” They have no shame.
Even if they win?
Even elections they win they say they should’ve won by more. Before his first term officially started, that was among the first things Trump was already peddling even after Hillary conceded.
Especially then.
Trump was claiming he’d actually won California by the time he was sworn in.
Looks like there’s going to be a red wave whether people vote for it or not.
Are the Republicans making up imaginary counties again?
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These shenanigans is why I won’t vote early with these christo fascists in power. I will vote on the day, in person.
I mean, if you think they won’t be pulling shenanigans on election day…
Harris County’s cascade of election day fumbles disproportionately affected communities of color
There’s no One Neat Trick to prevent people from fucking with an election. At the end of the day, you just have to bank on their hubris. Republicans told themselves they’d never lose Texas for twenty years. They haven’t taken an election seriously since the Tom DeLay era.
Now we just get to see wherever Dems caught them napping, or Greg Abbott can save the party from itself.
Oh they will try to do what they can. But I think there is less they can get away with when you’re in person on election day.
In some ways. It’s also easier to delay and prevent people from voting at all on the day of.
My logic was that if Democrats preferred one method over the other, that’s the one they’d target for ratfucking.
I’ll still be going on voting day.
And mail in/early voting heavily leans democrat. That’s definitely the one they will try to mess with. That’s a large piece of my reasoning.
there is less they can get away with when you’re in person on election day.
I haven’t seen any evidence of that. I’ve seen a lot of evidence to the contrary.
I’ve already gotten the text from the Office of the California Secretary of State: “Your ballot has been received and will be counted.” I hope the process goes smoothly for you!
I wouldn’t be concerned if I lived in California.
I voted early (in person) specifically to avoid any potential election-day ratfuckery (e.g. fascist paramilitary invading polls to intimidate voters).
Same
You think that will make a difference?
They’re 100% going to try and say that anything not counted by 12am shouldn’t count at all. Because they love trying to use that as some sort of deadline for counting because they’re usually ahead because by that point only the sparse rural counties are small enough to be done by then.
The only effective response to Republican election fraud is to fight it in detail. That takes a lot of people and a lot of money. The people side of it seems to be in good shape. I worry that there won’t be enough money for all the legal battles, but that there is hope on that too.
