Bill Would Count Prisoners Differently in Redistricting
Although inmates in Texas prisons are not able to vote, a long battle has been waged over whether they should count as residents for the purpose of redistricting.
State Rep. Eric Johnson, D-Dallas, filed a bill Thursday, HB 684, that would change the way prison inmates are counted when the state creates representative districts. State Rep. Harold Dutton, D-Houston, filed a similar bill, HB 329. He has been filing versions of the bill since 2001.
Both want to ensure that prison inmates are counted for the purposes of redistricting at their last residential address, as opposed to the prisons where ...
Comments (4)
Christine Lund
The House Research Committee should adjourn and disband if they think even one life is unimportant and shouldn't be counted just because someone is in prison. There must be some political reasoning behind trying to disenfranchise someone from being alive and counted. What makes people use such skullduggery to gain an advantage, to get more of something they shouldn't? What kind of people are we entrusting our government to, if they try things like this?
elissa fuchs
The HRC committee should immediately work to pass:E-VOTE:One Man, One Vote, One Social Security Number. We internet file tax returns and bank with SS#'s. We get our Lone Star, Medicaid, EBT etc with SS#'s. Low information representatives like Johnson, Dutton, Strauss, etc. need to spend every second securing Texas's ability to create jobs, and cut spending on failed programs like Headstart so inmates and everyone else can get jobs and stay off welfare. This can only be achieved by insuring Honest and Fair voting via voting with SS#.
This article mentions New York & California without mentioning that these 2 states are bankrupt due to democrat enacted policies. Texas should never follow anything that Cuomo or Brown or Obama have assaulted on the citizenry. Obamacare?
Dale Curry
@Elissa Fuchs - Not that your comment had much to do with the article at hand, but really Ms. Fuchs,, you need to start checking your "facts" before you start repeating things that are not true. Respectfully your description of Representative Johnson, Dutton, Strauss as "low information " was Incoherent. Furthermore, describing as "bankrupt" is plain rhetoric and is not reflective of reality. You might want to look at the aggregate wealth of all 3 before commenting. Both New York and California wealth accumulation are significantly greater than Texas's. Gross Domestic Product are significantly greater as well. Admittedly, they have faced significant challenges. Challenges largely brought on from banking deregulation and an all too cozy Bush Administration/Wall Street.
Lastly, this State has been run by republicans for 20 years. Just when is your side going to "man-up" on their abject failure. Failing schools, the largest uninsured population in the nation, not to mention the repeated corruption and other scandals just to name a few.
And despite a great deal of lies, rhetoric, and hysterical drama from the right, Obamacare is the law of the land. And while you might choose to embrace the crap spewing forth at fox, I suggest you look for yourself. Frankly, nothing the right has said has been remotely true. From death panels to cost, to 'Government takeover of Heath-care to socialized medicine'; it has been one lie after another.
elissa fuchs
@Dale Curry-Your right. New York, Conn.(blue states) aren't bankrupt--They just can't pay their bills! Unsustainable spending, unfunded pensions, crumbling infrastucture. Cuomo screaming for $60 billion for Sandy relief because the morons running New York spent their rainy day fund. Chris Dodd and the boys and girls pushing The Community Reinvestment Act caused the sub-prime melt-down 2008. Housing industry in the toilet. The only thing New York and Ct produce are state & gov't workers. I know because I fled the Northeast.
Polling places rife with fraud including the ability of Judges to keep polling places open hours and days after an election is why we need intenet voting using our social security numbers.Every rep. should be pushing for e-voting.
Obamacare- read the Reid bill: sections 3403 &2021-empowers Medicare to deny treatment based on cost. Medicare refuses medical claims more than twice the rate of private insurers.
Section 6301-creates the CER panel which will ration care within state exchanges.
US preventative Task force was responsible for advising women under 50 NOT to have a mammogram. Recently they tried to stop men from obtaining PSA screening based on age.
When the government practices medicine doctors respond to gov't regulation instead of patients symptoms. I oppose Obamacare because of facts.