The Brief: Top Texas News for Sept. 11, 2012

by David Muto
September 11, 2012
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The Big Conversation:

As redistricting and voter ID await further court action, a smaller (but bleaker) round of voting drama has erupted in Harris County.

As the Houston Chronicle reports, about 9,000 Harris County residents have recently received letters saying their voter registration could be canceled — because they're listed as possibly dead.

The letters, which some voters received this weekend, ask the recipients to verify that they are alive or face removal from voter rolls.

The names of the possibly deceased came from the Texas secretary of state via the Social Security Administration, which provides data that the ...

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Comments (13)

September 11, 2012 @ 7:01 a.m.

Carolyn Qualls via Texas Tribune on Facebook

getting to close to Nov to be legal
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September 11, 2012 @ 7:22 a.m.

Karen Spivey-Cummings via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Doesn't see to bother the GOP if things are legal anymore.
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September 11, 2012 @ 7:23 a.m.

Karen Spivey-Cummings via Texas Tribune on Facebook

*seem*
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September 11, 2012 @ 7:38 a.m.

Charisse Kelly via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Here we go...
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September 11, 2012 @ 7:51 a.m.

Karen Spivey-Cummings via Texas Tribune on Facebook

I'm tired of the GOP BS.
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September 11, 2012 @ 8:36 a.m.

Suzanne Galjour via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Seems like I'm living in Louisisana
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September 11, 2012 @ 8:50 a.m.

Michael Stevens via Texas Tribune on Facebook

The "dead voters " put LBJ in office ....
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September 11, 2012 @ 8:57 a.m.

Seth Webb via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Makes me wonder what is the voting proclivity of these so called "possibly dead". Are they all democrats, independents, or disaffected republicans who don't support the establishment candidates?
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September 11, 2012 @ 10:16 a.m.

Jill Hubley via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Seems it will be the first time the number of votes will be lower than the voter turn out. Dirty pool.
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September 11, 2012 @ 10:20 a.m.

Michael Tex Duncan via Texas Tribune on Facebook

That will possibly be a surprise to them.
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September 11, 2012 @ 3:31 p.m.

Mary Muna via Texas Tribune on Facebook

at least they are checking. Anyone can respond they are still alive and no one is using their info to vote proxy for dead folks
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September 11, 2012 @ 3:34 p.m.

Adele Roberson

Stealing elections is getting more difficult every year. Democrats are vigilant these days.
The Republican True the Vote came to Houston a month or so ago to ostensibly " assist voters" and "help with traffic" . (ha, ha) They held seminars with Houston "volunteers" ..( Ha Ha)
Some of these people came fifteen hundred miles to show Houston Volunteers what a voting booth looks like. Such kindness. Such democracy. I weep to think about this.
They came in hundred thousand dollar busses from all over the country. In the Chronicle report they said one bus stopped in Sugar Land, Texas to conference with that felon we all know as Bob Delay.
Getting advice from Bob Delay. Lessons in criminality, corruption, voter suppression and fraud.... how about that? From a Master.
September 13, 2012 @ 10:24 a.m.

gypsy314 ne

Leave it to democrats the dead will awake in time to vote for Obama and democrats right along with a few million illegal aliens. I see a great battle coming soon.