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by chasfm11
Mon Mar 14, 2022 8:37 am
Forum: General Legislative Discussions
Topic: Run-off election eligibility
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Re: Run-off election eligibility

LDB415 wrote: Sun Mar 13, 2022 8:31 pm
seph wrote: Sun Mar 13, 2022 3:06 pm I don't know if I want to go down that road of blocking people from voting in a primary runoff. The primaries are the most important battleground especially here in Texas.
I agree but on the other hand if someone doesn't care enough to vote in the primary why should they have the ability to alter the legitimate outcome of the runoff?
There is probably a better argument to be made that you should only vote in the primary for your registered party. In many parts of the State, the general election really decides nothing. The "opposition" numbers are so low that whoever the Republican candidate is wins. That is interesting because both the politicians and the opposition voters have figured out that dynamic. The Republican candidates take on a suspiciously non-Republican voting pattern after they are elected and the ranks of the Republican voters swell during the primaries as Democratic voters show up to influence the out comes. In one recent race, an upstart Conservative was running against an entrenched Rino. When the Rino determined via polls that he was going to lose, he enlisted Democratic party and BLM support. Anyone who believes that his win will result in full support for the Republican agenda is partaking of the "good stuff."

I can pretty much promise that efforts to limit the eligibility of voters based on their past voting patterns are going to be met with stiff resistance across the board. On a practical matter, I can say, as an official who worked the last election, that it is difficult enough to keep up with who is actually registered and who has requested a mail in ballot. I cannot imagine the administrative nightmare that would result if a voter showed up at the polls only to be turned away because they hadn't participated in the "qualifying" previous election.

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