https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/texans-say-voting-machines-are-flipping-selections-to-the-other-party

The “user error” explanation given was complete bullshit. When you voted straight party, that was it. There was no way for the voter to accidentally switch the senatorial vote after that. You’d have to be very deliberate to pull that off. And it has nothing to do with “rendering”.

https://www.texastribune.org/2018/10/26/texas-voting-machines-2018-straight-ticket-midterm-elections/

The Texas Tribune took the SoS’s statement as gospel. But the SoS was the fox guarding the henhouse.

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.

I’ve said it before, his incompetence is his only saving grace

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”.

Yes, that’s right! I’d actually forgotten about that. I was never in the habit of voting straight party anyway, because once upon a time I would actually vote for Republicans if they were the only ones in their respective races. I figured the guy earned my vote for at least being the only person willing to do the job.

Not anymore. They can burn in hell.

And they have made further repeals of environmental protective laws here in recent years, courting the likes of SpaceX and AI data centers

And we’re supposed to be fervent conservationists with respect for our parks and wildlife, but you can’t eat a fish you catch here without getting poisoned by 20 kinds of chemicals

Lately she’s been obvious about being evil

Yeah, maybe that has something to do with being hauled before Congress in front of God and everybody.

our man up there’s a real evil apologist

This is nice. We have to win harder than they can cheat.

https://texaspublicopinionresearch.substack.com/p/new-poll-james-talarico-leads-ken

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.

Especially for a state that’s supposed to be all about rugged individualism, they can’t stay out of your pants

Considering that Abbott is in charge of the fix, he would know

…Working as intended.

It’s not turning anything until we get rid of Abbott, Patrick, and Paxton. Best Talarico can do is one of those three. This state is so fucked up. Our elections are fucked.

Again it’s the little racist trolls with their “oh but can I use it in this situation” “oh what about this situation” basically playing the “I’m not touching you does this bug you” game that just ruins polite company for everybody. I have never had an instance where I wanted to use that word. But put the Forbidden label on it and racist jackasses can’t be help but be tempted by it like a giant red button.

Because forbidding it tells those types exactly what bugs their targets the most.

Banning words, or trying to reframe them as bad has never worked.

The banned words only get more power by virtue of being banned.

It just pushes people to use different words that end up with the same meaning.

Like “N-word” is the new n-word. Childish and useless.

And then there’s the whole thing where we let racists define what words mean… They ruin everything they can, so there’s no safe place to go to.

Old enough to remember when the promise of pay-tv was “tv without commercials”

I’d pay to get Meta out of my VR

See, right off the bat I’m like “wow, I didn’t know the Russians did the same thing as the British with the potato famine”

She’s been evil for decades. If anything, the thyroid cancer only made her worse.

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