Ken Paxton’s Office Sues Over Efforts to Get People of Color to Vote
newrepublic.com
The Republican attorney general—and Senate candidate—is upset as Texas’s biggest county shatters early voting records.

Paxton’s lawsuit claims that a get-out-the-vote advertisement campaign from Harris County’s office essentially constitutes reverse racism because it encouraged Black and Latino voters (groups with historically lower access to elections) to vote. Harris County is Texas’s most diverse county, notably housing Houston.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    9 days ago

    North Koreans don’t have to actually vote. Dear Leader is happy to handle that for them. Trump would like to implement a similar system in America.

    • rainbow_trout@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      9 days ago

      Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote.

      - Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guard!