Goddammit Texas!

Edit/Update: It turns out that my last name has a capitol letter in the middle and they put a space in it. Thank god. I can actually vote this year.

As a European, the whole registering to vote thing is honestly one of the wildest parts of the US elections to me. It's so unnecessary complicated and prone to errors/manipulation. I just have to show up with my ID, doesn't matter if it's for the EU parliament or the local city senate.

Oof. I checked mine three times this cycle to be sure. Never know when some awful mistake, like voting in a Democratic primary, will get your TX Voter info deleted.

You know, though, since we're mostly left-leaning around these parts, just tell me the secret code and I'll meet you at a basement in the People's Republic of Austin and we'll discuss getting three non-citizens to vote however you'd like, and then we can dine on the flesh of Christians to celebrate!

by the way if you vote by mailing it in, in Florida your vote could be denied without you even knowing.

They verify the signatures and a lot of recent young adults never really had a proper signature, it also happens that a lot of youth vote blue.

Twitter and some other reich-wing places were doing fucky stuff like promoting register-to-vote sites that didn't necessarily actually register you to vote. This is particularly true in Texas, because all the sites were online but Texas required you to register either in person or by snail mail. But the sites would display success messages and shit anyway.

Made me go check mine and I don't live in texas.

Voter suppression go brrrrrr

Mildly?

Not a Texan, but here in Missouri, you can request your absentee ballot as early as 9/24 this year.

I requested mine, waited two weeks, and it never arrived. So last week I requested another, and I'm waiting for it. I do think there's some fuckery afoot with the mail, so I'm probably going to be stuck voting absentee in-person at my local election board.

That doesn't look like the site specifically for TX. Not sure if there might be something that could cause another site to report an error.

Double check at

www.votetexas.gov

You'll need to enter your TDL (Texas Driver's License Number) and date of birth after clicking the "Am I Registered?" button

Important: If you're on the suspese list rather than being fully removed (unsure if that's the case here), you might still be able to vote but will need to show proof of residence. Contact your registrar to check that and ask them about it

If voters find out they're still on the suspended list after having shown up at their polling places on Election Day, they can still vote after they complete a “statement of residence” form.

Voters with suspended status who may have moved to other counties will be required to vote in the counties where they previously resided or may be asked to submit provisional ballots.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/texas-voter-purge-warning-ballots-abbott-rcna168811

As a note to all: Check your voter registration status today as deadlines are very fast approaching (or even already past in some states)

https://vote.gov/register

I'm going through the same shit in Indiana. Waiting on a response grim my local office.

Hell, I'm in NY and my partner's voter registration keeps getting reset to an old address she doesn't live at any more. She's fixed it like three times this year.

@thefartographer@lemm.ee Have you checked yours? Mine is all good.

Online voting what could go wrong

hell mine is in "suspense" because "the registrar is unsure of my residential address". been here for nearly 4 years and my DL is up to date for 3.5 of them. looked up my info and they still have me in the old county rolls. can i vote in the old county while actually living in the new one?

To be safe itnsounds like younhave to register to vote every year.
Just donit when its the "spring forward" part of daylight savings.

Or everytime you're stopped outside a grocery store by the person with the clipboard.