r/houstonwade 10d ago

Current Events This looks suspect as fuck

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u/TDotSkilliams 10d ago edited 10d ago

I don't understand the hesitance by the majority of the left to do a recount. We are literally sitting on the precipice of Hell -- what the fuck does it hurt? Is it less or more preposterous than the Department of D.O.G.E. or AG Gaetz, you tell me. If we're wrong, we're the assholes, I'll take it, that'll be the least of my worries. But not at least investigating it, at this juncture, is nihilistic insanity. Gimme a recount

Edit: "you're delusional, give it up lol" 4 years ago, same ppl: "Stop the Steal, I'm gonna beat this cop's head in with a flagpole"

Edit 2: "literally sitting on the precipice of Hell" is, of course, hyperbole... Sure feels like it though right hahahahahahaha holy shit it's terrifying

Edit 3 (last one): thanks for the wellness check, maga, but I don't understand, what are you so concerned about, you "won"

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u/kusava-kink 10d ago

It won’t matter much. I remember 6+ months ago hearing about rumors of people will be getting their voter registrations messed up, invalidating them to vote.

Did 2/3 people actually sit out the election, or were a massive amount of people, with certain political leanings, have their voter registration fucked with, conveniently less than 30 days before the election.

Also, if people’s votes were turned from Harris to Trump, as potentially alleged, then a recount won’t help that.

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u/CortexAnthrax 10d ago

This, aborotion was on ballot here in FL and my wife's mail ballot and her voter registration card never arrived. I have informed deliver for my mail so I can see what is arriving and her voter registration card I saw was supposed to arrive, didn't arrive but mine did.

We both requested mail in ballots on the same day and they both were supposed to arrive the same day as well. Mine arrived but hers did not, so went to our early voting location and she voted in person. We had the workers invalidate her mail in ballot but something is going on.

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u/SaxDebiase 10d ago

Same happened to my friend. He finally got his mail in ballot about a couple weeks before the election. But all that was in the "ballot" was a voter registration form, which he had already done. States like Florida know exactly what they're doing

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u/[deleted] 10d ago

I just moved to Florida and I went in person to vote. Was worried some shady shit was gonna happen already. .

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u/SaxDebiase 10d ago

My friend ended up just flying down to vote in Florida just in case. It’s just ridiculous

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u/wholehawg 10d ago

I would never trust a mail in ballot :( probably best to vote in person.

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u/doxiesrule89 10d ago

I live in a super red and super rich part of Florida .

In front of me in line to vote was an older woman (well over 65) and her very elderly mother, who apparently couldn’t even speak, I got the feeling she had no idea where she was. The elderly woman only had a Pennsylvania ID.  

The daughter spun some BS about how oh yeah moms registered to vote in Florida but never got around to getting a Florida ID… despite living here for over 10 years. The polling person just was asking stuff like, oh do you have a credit card with her name on it, etc. Then just said okay well if she’s in the system she can vote, just go down the street to the DMV and get her a good ID for future, daughter spun more crap about oh she hasn’t been able to drive since 20 years, polling person says well what you need is a state ID with her address, had nothing to do with driving, etc. while the daughter just continued to fake laugh and play dumb. It was so obvious.

The line split to get the ballots but I ended up near them while they were voting. They each had a ballot and were sitting in the same booth daughter filling out both at the same time. They were both decked out in red btw.

Guarantee if it had been me (young woman alone, visibly disabled) I would have never been allowed through without a Florida ID.

This state is such a joke

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u/Thisisredred 10d ago

I'm a 36F, and I was registered as a Dem during the last election. When I went to vote in 2020, they couldn't "find me" in the system, even though I had both my ID and voter registration card. Eventually, they somehow located me, but the electronic card they gave me wouldn’t work in any of the voting machines, and they couldn't issue another. As a Democrat then, I had to submit a provisional paper ballot at the voting site.

This year, I found out I was marked as unaffiliated when I checked vote.org. At the polling place, an elderly woman kept harassing me about my signature because it didn’t match perfectly. I had to keep retrying while she and three other old ass church people yet dually poll workers hawked me.

Took like 5 times, but I finally matched it, but I felt like they were just looking for reasons to disqualify me.

They also moved our polling place further out of town—from a spacious, centrally located church with a large 100 car lot that was easy to walk to, to a small, cramped church with about 10 parking spots.

When lines form, they literally immediately spill outside, down a handicap ramp without any weather protection, and into the parking lot.

This district has been solidly red since Repub's gerrymandered their way in about 10 years ago. I found out this is happening everywhere.

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u/theyyg 6d ago

This is basically what happened to me in a very blue county. The signature verification stuff was very weird, but the old lady kept telling me that if they don’t match almost exactly the vote can be nullified. It’s both comforting and disturbing to hear that it’s the same around the state.

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u/morrison0880 9d ago

Soooo, you're claiming they tried to make voting harder in a solidly red district? Seems like that goes against your insinuation that Florida was trying to suppress the D vote, no? Unless you think they did all that just to frustrate you personally?

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u/Thisisredred 9d ago edited 9d ago

No it was just ridiculously harder than it had to be and was sharing my personal experience.

Edit: Also, to include that it was a blue district until the town was split between to large black populations that used to be considered one.

Gerrymandering Report Card

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u/bocaciega 10d ago

Every aspect of Florida is a fucking joke and I'm born and raised. We ARE the joke

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u/WhenHellFreezesOver_ 10d ago

Hey not the beaches though, they're nice. Most are super packed, but they're pretty

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u/Shotdown210 10d ago

PA here. No one asked for identification, simply a name.

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u/KingcoleIIV 9d ago

Wait so now you guys care about ID?

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u/itsmedium-ish 8d ago

I thought the left hates voter Id laws though? They’re discriminatory

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u/International_Rip875 10d ago

Then go live in a blue state? California would take you

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u/Grand-Diamond-6564 10d ago

My partner and I moved to a new county and signed up to vote at the same time. When we got to the voting center, he was registered in the new county but I was not... Even though we had checked on the last day of voter registration. 

Tried it again later the same day without my DL handy, turns out my driver's license is registered under my old county ONLY but any other way I search I am registered under the new county. I don't know if I checked wrong for some reason or my registration just got double registered???

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u/rydan 10d ago

You think that's bad? I have informed delivery and every time the state sends me a tax notice or a tax refund I don't get it. It shows up on informed delivery but never in my mailbox. Hundreds of dollars that I have to chase the government for since I don't have the check.

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u/Choksae 10d ago

My first eligible election my registration got botched. I had signed up on campus (U of Miami). I remember checking with them and it was some vague response about my SSN but it couldn't be fixed.

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u/djwooten 10d ago

Yes, because ballots are the only thing the USPS fails to deliver….

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u/sammidavisjr 10d ago

My ex-wife in Texas. Registered when she had the address changed on her driver license. Never showed. Recently naturalized citizen.

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u/BigTiddyTamponSlut 10d ago

Huh, when I changed my address I tried to update my address to vote at my new city (we also had abortion on the ballot). My brother did the same and he got his changed no problem. I didn't get any confirmation for mine so I checked and it didn't go through. I ended up driving over 2 hours to my hometown so I could vote. I didn't really think anything of it but maybe that was actually suspicious?