South Texas Republican Voters Not allowed to Vote Republican at Polling Places, Given Democrat Ballots Instead

Starr County, Texas, including the cities of Rio Grande City and Roma in south Texas along the Texas/Mexico border, is refusing to allow Republicans to vote at polling places, and even trying to give them a Democrat Ballot to vote with instead!

I was contacted by a Hispanic family trying to vote in Rio Grande City, TX late last week. Four different family members had gone to vote at their polling places. They unfortunately found that the county elections administration has not even supplied polling places with Republican ballots. The only place that someone can vote Republican is at the County Courthouse, instead of all the polling places where the County supplies democrat ballots for voting.

It gets worse. When these Republican voters went to vote at their polling place and asked for a Republican ballot, they were not told to go to the County Courthouse, but rather they were given a Democrat ballot and told just to vote with the Democrat ballot and the election officials told them all that Trump and everyone else will be on the November ballot.

This is shocking corruption and severe voting rights violations. This is nothing less than a scheme to alter or interfere with fair and free elections.

While it might have been a county party decision to not have voting anywhere other than the county courthouse, the problem is the Republican voters showing up to the polling places are NOT being told to go to the courthouse for a consolidated election to vote; they are just given a Democrat ballot and said just vote Democrat and wait for the November election to vote for Trump and other Republicans. That is wrong and illegal and something should be done about it

This 2020 Presidential election cycle has already been marred by election scandals. The Iowa Democrat Caucus saw the results being delayed and recounted due to irregularities and technology glitches. It is hard to imagine that in Texas, a county can suppress and interfere with voting like what has occurred this election in Starr County, TX.

South Texas has a long history of government and political corruption. One of my first articles ever written was a breaking story about a battle on the border near Roma, TX where gunfire and explosions were heard throughout the night. (VIDEO) Breaking News! Massive Battle Across Texas Mexico Border - Machine Guns and Explosions - Morning of April 21, 2011

Important New Date Changes and Filing Period for Texas Elections to Accommodate for Move Act

Important New Date Changes and Filing Period for Texas Elections to Accommodate for Move Act

By, David Bellow 


http://www.texasgopvote.com/2012-elections/important-new-date-changes-and-filing-period-texas-elections-accommodate-move-ac-003108 

Same Primary Election Date but all other dates modified

Texas faced a bit of a dilemma in the Texas Legislative Session this past year. The Move Act requires States to send out ballots to troops overseas at least 45 days before an election. And while many of the liberal northeast States requested and were granted waivers from the requirement to make sure troops get their ballots, Texas wanted to make sure that troops got their ballots mailed in accordance with the Move Act. This meant Texas had to either move their primary election date back to a later date or move the candidate filing period deadline to a sooner date.

There was significant pushback to the idea of having to move the Texas Primary Election back to a later date and make Texas even less significant in the presidential primary election.

Instead of moving the primary election to a later date, Texas instead passed SB 100 which will keep the Texas Primary Election date the same but change all the other dates, including moving the candidate filing deadline to an earlier date and moving a primary runoff election to a later date.

Below is the summary of the major, important changes to the Texas Election Calendar:

Summary
Deadline to File as a Candidate = Second Monday in December (Dec. 12, 2011)
Ballot Drawing = Third Tuesday in December
Primary Election Date = First Tuesday in March (March 6th, 2012)
Primary Run off = Fourth Tuesday in May (May 22, 2012)
Local & General = First Tuesday in November (November 6, 2012)

Here is a more detailed Texas Election Calendar.

Thanks to Skipper Wallace of the Texas Republican County Chairmen’s Association for providing the summary of the New Texas Election Schedule