Ken Paxton’s Office Sues Over Efforts to Get People of Color to Vote
newrepublic.com
The Republican attorney general—and Senate candidate—is upset as Texas’s biggest county shatters early voting records.

Paxton’s lawsuit claims that a get-out-the-vote advertisement campaign from Harris County’s office essentially constitutes reverse racism because it encouraged Black and Latino voters (groups with historically lower access to elections) to vote. Harris County is Texas’s most diverse county, notably housing Houston.

    • boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      4 days ago

      Technically what they mean by that is racism against white people. You can’t simply call it racism because depending on who you ask, you can’t actually be racist against white people.

      But if there are already a lot of white people voting and black and latino voters have lower turnout, I fail to see how that would even qualify as reverse racism.

      • lobut@lemmy.caEnglish
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        4 days ago

        Oh, I’m a foreigner too but I follow US politics too much. ACORN was an organization that helped people register to vote.

        When Obama was running … people were calling him a terrorist. So it was called a terrorist organization and then accused Obama or using it to produce widespread voter fraud. Then Breitbart did some piece that was edited to make them look even worse. Long story short … it was harassed and then financially collapsed.

  • AreaKode@riskeratspizza.comEnglish
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    4 days ago

    A lot of 1st world countries mandate that all citizens vote.

    MAGAts sue for trying to convince registered voters to vote…

    • DougPiranha42@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 days ago

      I was surprised by your comment because I only knew about Australia. It’s 21 countries, but not all enforce it:

      Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Egypt, Fiji, Greece, Honduras, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Mexico, Nauru, North Korea, Paraguay, Peru, Samoa, Singapore, Thailand, Turkey, Uruguay

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_voting

      Mexico looks a bit off there with compulsory voting and 52% turnout… but several countries have 90% or more turnout:

      Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Luxembourg, Nauru, North Korea, Samoa, Singapore, Uruguay

      (I feel like north korea doesn’t really count though, and Nauru has 12k residents total)

      • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish
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        3 days ago

        North Koreans don’t have to actually vote. Dear Leader is happy to handle that for them. Trump would like to implement a similar system in America.

        • rainbow_trout@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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          3 days ago

          Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote.

          - Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guard!