The Brief: Top Texas News for Nov. 2, 2012
The Big Conversation:
As early voting wraps up and Election Day approaches, new revelations about the state's attempted dead-voter purge have surfaced.
Errors plagued the state's recent purge, in which election officials repeatedly matched the names of many living Texans to those of dead people throughout the country, the Houston Chronicle's Lise Olsen reports today.
Demographic data also shows that Hispanics and blacks were more likely to be matched with dead voters.
The controversy started this fall when hundreds of voters, mostly in Harris and Travis County, began complaining that they'd received letters asking them to ...
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Scott Chase via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Unfortunately, we all know folks like those in the video.
gypsy314 ne
texas should make sure the dead can not vote so Greg should do what he needs to do to fix the issue. If voters are alive then submit a new register to vote whats up unless they plan on cheating then I say throw the book at them put there sorry a''s in jail for along time.
Meme Me
"Demographic data also shows that Hispanics and blacks were more likely to be matched with dead voters."
How could that be true when there is no racial information listed on the voters registration?
Stop playing the race card!
It's high time we cleaned up the voter rolls and purged those names who are deceased, etc.
Reda Cavender
Okay all you dead people, deceased voters, expired citizens, don't vote. Case closed. Problem solved. In other words...doesn't Texas have enough trouble with living people.
sssdddd
We got you southerners figured out. Pining for a return of Jim Crow era is obvious. Why did notoriously a***ole Abbot fold at the first hint of lawsuit? Why? Because the a***oles of Texas would have obviously lost in front of our CONSTITUTION. You know the downtrodden, that Rick Perry's book called for a return to separate bathrooms for blacks and hispanics.
Yes we are a watching and sitting on arsenals of Fort Riley, Edward AFB, Gulf Aircraft carriers, Tinker AFB, Dover AFB and Camp LeJune and other 'peacemaking' organizations ready to respond if Texas makes any treasonous secession moves.... Lee was granted clemency for his surrender, any future combatants should not be treated in so gentlemanly manner. The fabled, impotent Texas Rangers will not last in the face of our onslaught more than three days.
So whistle Dixie, we will be listening with joy to every note. Dixie is our heritage too, yes we speak southern too.
sssdddd
What are you Abbott?
Rick Perry threatened Ben Bernanke with a whipping?
What specifically are you threatening International Election monitors with? With the 'come at your own risk' statements?
What are you KKK/
sssdddd
Oh there was a typo esteemed Mr. Abbott.
What are you KKK?