How GOP voter suppression works in Texas

-you can vote with gun permit but not student ID

-no online voter registration

-must be deputized to register voters

-voters under 65 can’t use fear of covid to vote by mail

-only 1 place to drop ballots off in huge Dem counties

Texas closed 750 polling places after SCOTUS gutted Voting Rights Act, more than any other state

72% of closures came in 50 counties with fastest growth of Blacks & Latinos https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/03/texas-primary-lines/

Texas GOP playbook: make it as hard as possible to vote, even in pandemic, to prevent Dems & voters of color from taking power. It's now been adopted by Republican Party at all levels https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/06/coronavirus-voting-rights/

As Greg Abbott cuts number of mail ballot drop off locations from 12 to 1 in Harris County, which has 2.4 million registered voters & is larger than Rhode Island, remember that Mitch McConnell has been blocking legislation to restore Voting Rights Act for 300 days

Not surprisingly, Abbott's new order limiting mail drop off locations to 1 per county hits counties with large numbers of Democrats & voters of color the hardest https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/10/01/reduction-ballot-drop-off-sites-texas-will-disproportionately-affect-democratic-non-white-areas/

Harris County Texas is bigger than Rhode Island & has 5 times as many people

Rhode Island will have 41 drop boxes for mail voting this year across state & at 400 polling places on Election Day

Harris County has 1

82 year old Ralph Edelbach of Cypress TX wants to drop his mail ballot off because of USPS delays. When Harris County had 12 drop off locations he had to travel 16 miles to closest one. Now with 1 location he has to travel 36 MILES, 90 min drive. Insane https://campaignlegal.org/sites/default/files/2020-10/Dkt%201%20-%20Complaint.pdf