Well, the entirety of Harris County's voting equipment - every single e-slate and the machines that assign codes to voters - were destroyed in a fire yesterday. Ten thousand pieces of equipment worth $30 million. The genius Republicans in charge of protecting the vote had all of their election assets stored in one place, and it's all been reduced to ashes . . .and we start early voting on Oct. 18 - seven weeks away.
Chief elections officer Beverly Kaufman is already squawking about reducing the number of polling locations on election day. You can read more about the here and here (click2houston which is an especially interesting read), but I have to tell you, I find it very disturbing that Harris County is where a huge bulk of Bill White's votes are going to come from and here we probably have an arsonist trying to burn up that vote.
This just adds to the egregious situation in Harris County of Republicans trying to suppress votes by rejecting voter registration ballots over the pickiest reasons and having personal for profit schemes being run right out of the elections office.
We have been wondering what Rick Perry had up his sleeve to shut down Bill White's vote. Whee! I don't think anyone could have predicted this.
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