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Rep. Dustin Burrows elected Texas House Speaker in blow to Abbott, Paxton (www.chron.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Is there plenty of voter suppression, certainly, not all to the but to the extent that elections are unwinnable at all yet

There is still room to fight even if the conditions are not what they should be

I mean in Odessa Texas this December, Dems won a city council seat with in a district that voted 70% for Trump. And the dem who won was also gay too - and still won in that super trump heavy district

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Texas is large. There will always be suppression, cheating, small victories for the good guys, and strangeness.

It’s probably never been a real democracy where each person can cast one ballot that is always counted as it should be. It wasn’t in most of the 1800s, was not during the civil rights era, and is not today.

But the methods of cheating have charged since the 1990s, and only exist now because very few people in Texas, who talk politics, understand democracy has two parts: the voting and the counting. And one should never trust the counters. Or trust but verify.