Editorial: Vote twice, the legal way — starting with the Texas primaries.
Jason Fochtman, Staff photographer / Houston Chronicle
Tomorrow, 186 years later, Texans are voting — at least, we hope they are. Election officials tell us that early-voting numbers were down across the state.than in a general election. The usual reasons include lack of interest, few compelling issues, few compelling candidates. Sure, maybe some Texans who haven’t made it to the polls yet are still planning to go on Election Day. But it’s also true,
What worries us is the possibility that even more voters than usual stayed away from the polls because they were either stymied or intimidated by the nationwide campaign Republicans have waged to make it more difficult to vote. In Texas and elsewhere, new, nitpicking voter identification requirements, stricter rules regarding voter assistance and other measures allegedly implemented to combat voter fraud appear to be naked attempts to make sure that only the “right people” vote.
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