One drop box for almost 5 million people! This is blatant voter suppression.
Editorial board of @HoustonChron says it straight: Governor Abbott’s closure of ballot drop-off locations is voter suppression. Plain and simple. https://t.co/xvsqRgzBHy
— Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) October 3, 2020
Voting rights advocates sue to block Texas governor’s order limiting counties to one ballot drop-off location https://t.co/YB4GcIeJVz
— Eugene Scott (@Eugene_Scott) October 2, 2020
Texas Democrats are planning to take Gov. Greg Abbott to federal court over his controversial move to shutter locations across the state where voters can drop off their mail-in ballots to be counted for the general election https://t.co/rfq8gE2wB4
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) October 1, 2020
Harris County clerk: “To force hundreds of thousands of seniors and voters with disabilities to use a single drop-off location in a county that stretches nearly 2,000 square miles is prejudicial and dangerous.” https://t.co/d7GHcvhLh3
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) October 1, 2020
Why?
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) October 1, 2020
—>> Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has issued a proclamation limiting drop-off locations for mail-in ballots to one per county.
The move significantly affects Harris County, the state's largest county by population, one of the largest in the country, and a Democratic stronghold.
How GOP voter suppression works in Texas
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) October 1, 2020
-you can vote with gun permit but not student ID
-no online voter registration
-must be deputized to register voters
-voters under 65 can’t use fear of covid to vote by mail
-only 1 place to drop ballots off in huge Dem counties
Heres how we overcome this latest voter suppression bullshit: we call Texas voters tonight and ask them to make a plan to vote during Early Voting (12 days away). We cannot allow Abbott to deter, deny or defeat us. Sign up here and lets do the work to win: https://t.co/mpDxpOfSBb https://t.co/bWXh871YJ2
— Beto O'Rourke (@BetoORourke) October 1, 2020
WaPo: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has issued a proclamation limiting each of the state's counties to only one mail-in ballot drop-off location for the November election.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 1, 2020
Texas Democrats immediately criticized Abbott's move as "a blatant voter suppression tactic."
NEW: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott limits election drop boxes to one per county. He says the move was made to enhance ballot security, but critics warn it could severely limit access for many voters https://t.co/JIg0lsVYJ4
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) October 1, 2020
The particular game here is that Texas has 254 counties, most of which are tiny. But also five counties with populations of over one million.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) October 1, 2020
So the one drop-off point per county rule delivers a huge advantage to residents of those small rural counties. https://t.co/rA5hQoBuH9
To put this in perspective:
— Aman Batheja (@amanbatheja) October 1, 2020
Washington DC:
68 square miles
700,000 residents
Dozens of ballot drop-off boxes
Harris County, Texas
1,777 square miles
4.7 million residents
1 ballot drop-off location https://t.co/LAbAeBMLbv
BREAKING: In what will surely spark a Texas election controversy, Gov Greg Abbott is ordering counties to only operate one mail-in ballot drop-off location. Harris County had opened nearly a dozen drop sites in a county that's larger than Rhode Island. More details to come..
— ed lavandera (@edlavaCNN) October 1, 2020
This is Republican voter suppression at high level. You would think a governor who is disabled might show a little sensitivity to making voting more accessible to all Texans.Why are Republicans afraid of more people voting? @GregAbbott_TX https://t.co/QIwhzdwEyI
— stuart stevens (@stuartpstevens) October 1, 2020
This is voter suppression in action, a conscious effort to make it much harder to vote in urban areas — which are more Black, Hispanic & Democratic — than in rural areas. It’s blatant discrimination, made easier by a a right-wing Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act. https://t.co/CIj2hmN3nt
— EJ Dionne (@EJDionne) October 1, 2020
For those of you not from Texas, Harris County includes Houston, and has more people than 24 states. It will have one drop box. https://t.co/IdnDihT38v
— Paul Begala (@PaulBegala) October 1, 2020
"This has President Trump written all over it with the Governor changing the rules with 33 days until the most important election of our lifetime to make it harder to vote," says Clay Jenkins. https://t.co/pjNd0Ji5LN
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) October 2, 2020
Sad! 