Dallas County Democrats, election officials, and members of Congress gathered in Dallas to discuss the county’s March 3 primary election breakdown and frame it as part of a larger fight over ballot access, voter notification, and the future of election administration in Texas and across the country.
Tag: voter suppression
Posted inPolitics
Texas Democracy Lies on Redrawn Lines
Tarrant County Commissioners Court voted to eliminate over 100 Election Day polling locations and slash early voting sites, which critics say is a direct attack on Black, Latino, and college-age voters, while Rep. Venton Jones argues that the new congressional maps are the most racially gerrymandered since the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Posted inTexas
Ohio Is the New Texas — And That Should Scare Us All
Texas and Ohio are testing authoritarian democracy, with Ohio being the upgraded version of Texas, while California is experimenting with an open-source democracy to resist the authoritarian model.