Great news from Texas!

[Julian English]

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Tom Bonier
@tbonier
Your random election data stat(s) of the day: 2,644,532 people have registered to vote in Texas since Election Day '16. 1,660,173 of those new voters are people of color and/or under the age of 25. Trump carried the state by 807,179 votes.

[Demovictory9]

1. very good news. GOP will have to work overtime to suppress vote

[MyOwnPeace]

9. And with their "connections" -

you think they can't?
Between the gerrymandering, court appointments, and foot-dragging legislative action (excepting "voter-rights issues" - that is to say, "eliminating them" ) - that would just be a tempting challenge for the F**KING thieves!

[Codeine]

2. Wouldn't it be something? nt

[spanone]

3. K&R...

[Maraya1969]

4. That's 63%

[Fla Dem]

5. We can only hope!

[Karadeniz]

6. Yeah! Hook 'em, Dems!

[Scotch-Irish]

10. LOL!! As an old UT alumni, I loved that!

Indeed!

[BlueTexasMan]

20. Indeed

Texas fight, Texas fight, 'cause it's Texas that we love best!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

7. I just hope they all double check their

registration a couple of times between now and November 3, 2020. In too many places the registrations have a habit of disappearing.

But that's a huge number of new voters. I see that about 16 million voters are currently registered there.

[WinstonSmith4740]

17. My first thought, too.

Just because they got tagged outside the supermarket to get registered (I've done it...it's a good time!), doesn't mean they'll show up to vote. And when the wrong person in the office gets hold of the paperwork, somehow they never get entered into the system.

[IronLionZion]

8. We need to encourage/inspire those new voters to turn out and vote

since the other side will be spewing lies to discourage them and suppress them whenever they can like limiting polling places near college campuses and minority neighborhoods. They will go all in on challenging the citizenship of every person of color who tries to vote, even liberal looking whites.

blue wave!

[MyMission]

12. 45 and his cult have inspired many Dems to register and to vote

I know quite a few folks who are not that politically involved but definitely plan to vote next year. I believe there will be a blue wave, even a tsunami!

The voter suppression and vote tampering are big concerns, but in the end I believe there are more of "us" than them and they won't be able to suppress enough votes to win.

[AllaN01Bear]

11. yessss. eggscllent

[Lonestarblue]

13. Before the 2018 election, I checked my registration online and made a screennshot.

I’ve never had any trouble voting here, but just to be safe I wanted proof of registration the day I voted. As someone who always votes in every election, and a senior citizen to boot, I’m not a likely target for voter suppression. Here in Travis County we finally have new voting machines that create a paper record. Good riddance to the ones that were flipping votes to Ted Cruz when someone voted a straight Democratic ticket. I don’t know if other counties have gotten rid of their same machines.

What good news about new registrations here. Perhaps in the next 11+ months we can register another 2.5 million people. Having Texas go blue would be oh so sweet!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

15. Still have old eSlate machines in McLennan county Texas.

You dial your choice in and hit enter. Antiquated as hell. That they switched votes to Cruz was investigated and deemed user error. The county bought in 2005 with Help America Vote funding. But no money now. Surprise surprise.

[Tarheel_Dem]

14. Is there any breakdown by party affiliation? n/t

[FakeNoose]

16. Texas is going to go BLUE next year

I'm feeling it! Go Texas Democrats - get out the vote and make it turn blue!

[Zaphod42]

23. Yes!

Hopefully, all these newly registered voters will follow thru on their duty to actually VOTE!

[Farmer-Rick]

19. The only way for Dems to win is to overwhelm the Russian/GOP cheat machine with massive turnout

And it looks like we are going to do just that.

W'ell vote the massive orange traitor out of our white house.

[Hortensis]

21. :) This IS wonderful, but many will vote Republican...

Others will not vote at all because they can't vote Republican and won't vote Democrat.

Remember, just like liberalism, conservatism is both hardwired into our personalities and an environmental/nurture product. That goes for everyone, including young people and minorities.

On the happy side, we should net significantly more votes than the climate-denying Russian Asset Party.

[Odawg]

22. Just saying

If you think the repubs don't have a sleazy plan for voter suppression you haven't been paying attention.