#primary day

Hundreds of voters were turned away from Dallas County polls before noon Tuesday when they arrived at their typical voting sites but were rerouted to their assigned polling place due to a switch prompted by the county Republican Party.

Not sure what kind of primary your state has? 🤔 We’ve got you.

This is some bullshit.

Fortunately my state does not have many big internal races this year; I’d rather this happen in the primary now, so we can be better prepared in November.

Today, Tuesday June 12th, is primary day in Maine, Nevada, Virginia, North Dakota, and South Carolina! If you have any questions about voting, give the Voter Protection Hotline a call: (833)336-VOTE (833.336.8683)

‘What happened in Texas is a warning’: advocates say Republicans suppressed votes in the primaries

Adria R Walker

In Dallas and Williamson counties, voters faced long lines, extended wait times and confusion about voting location

On Tuesday, Texas held its Democratic and Republican primaries ahead of the upcoming November midterms. Democratic voters chose between Jasmine Crockett, the anti-Trump firebrand congresswoman, and James Talarico, the populist state representative, in an election that attracted national attention. Crockett conceded the race and endorsed Talarico on Wednesday, but only after claiming late on election night that she wasn’t ready to concede because of a voting issue in Dallas.

“We don’t have any of the results because there was a lot of confusion today,” Crockett told supporters at her election-night party: “We were able to keep the polls open, but I can tell you now that people have been disenfranchised.” Crockett received 45.6% of the vote, compared to Talarico’s 53.1%.

Voters in Dallas and Williamson counties faced challenges due to a change in voting location. Voting rights advocates say that the difficulties in voting amount to voter suppression – and they raise concerns about how smoothly the November midterms will go. (Republican candidates, Texas attorney general Ken Paxton, and the incumbent senator John Cornyn will face-off in a run-off on 26 May.)

Denisse Molina, who worked as a poll monitor with the Texas Civil Rights Project in Williamson county, said that she saw several voters go into one precinct only to be routed elsewhere. In one large voting site, Democratic and Republican voters were lost as to where they were supposed to go because of a lack of adequate signage.

At another site, a leasing office at an apartment complex, Molina said there were only three voting machines available despite people from 13 precincts being routed to that location. About 200 people waited in line for hours – so long that voters began to leave.