Recent news has created massive confusion across Texas because 1.2 million registered Texas voters have been placed on the voter “suspense” list.
When voters see headlines like this, many people assume that their registration has been cancelled or that they can no longer cast a ballot. This confusion is extremely dangerous, and it plays in Greg Abbott’s favor.
I want to be clear about what this news means. Being on the voter suspense list does not mean your voter registration has been purged. It simply means that local officials need an updated address before October 5th – the voter registration deadline here in Texas.
Abbott and Republicans know that confusion can discourage people from the polls. And they do these deliberate tactics so that people are discouraged from showing up, because they know that the stakes of this race couldn’t be higher.
And Abbott also knows that when Texans turn out, his time in office is up. That’s why we can’t allow a single eligible voter to be sidelined by confusion or bureaucratic red tape.
This is what fascism does.
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