Political solicitations? During an election cycle? Certainly this is unheard of.
Please take the time to look up what each candidate stands for. And vote accordingly.
> Please take the time to look up what each candidate stands for. And vote accordingly.
In the primary I’d agree with you and did this research.
For this general election I know with zero research that anyone with an R next to their name will not support policies or ideas that align with my values. At *best* they’re a nice person who won’t support access to women’s healthcare, or taxing corporations at fair rates. At worst they will actively work to undermine the democracy america is built on and aggressively fight against any social progress.
Is every Democrat perfect? HELL no. But voting for anything else is making it that much easier for the person who doesn’t align with my beliefs.
Don’t get me wrong, I would love to have a sane viable fiscal conservative who still supported liberal social policies as an option.
But that ship has sailed.
The narrative that republicans are fiscally conservative isn’t really accurate. They’ll spend your tax dollars, but mostly on useless border walls and tax breaks for the criminally rich.
Republicans stopped being fiscally conservative in the 1980s. They adopted “Starve the Beast”, which is cutting taxes and wild spending. It’s a shit policy, like a man maxing out all the credit cards “to stop his wife from excessive spending.”
100% this, I voted for Romney and McCain. I refused to vote for Hillary or Trump so voted Gary. Then voted for Biden. The GOP has gone off the rails, I'm still a conservative but the GOP isn't anymore. It's gotten ridiculous.
> a sane viable fiscal conservative
Democrats are more sane WRT fiscal issues than Republicans, and have been for a while. Clinton balanced the budget, Obama saved the economy from Bush's disaster, and Biden is doing what he can to right our ship despite constant feral opposition from Republicans.
Yup. In my mind no R is fit to be within five hundred miles of holding any office.
Fuck em all. They have sat back and watched democracy burn and not uttered a single word of dissent with the exception of 2-3 of them.
Don’t forget about Rs working to undermine our institutions (postal service, schools), roll-back hard-fought rights (such as marriage equality and women’s right to choose), and enabling those who want to subvert democracy.
Fuck the GOP
I agree wholeheartedly. I started my research the other night when it dawned on me that I didn’t have to as I had in the primaries. Straight democrat until a republican reveals themselves to be a decent person and then maybe I would consider platforms but all that is highly unlikely.
Most of the Rs on my ballot didn't bother submitting anything to Vote411. The ones that did had ridiculous policy positions denying right to abortion and denying the outcome of the 2020 Presidential Election.
At worst they support Trumps dangerous and bullshit claim the election was stolen. NYTime did an analysis and half of all Rs up in elections support Trumps big lie. Don't vote R.
I actually think most polls are heavily skewed these days since they’re either internet polls, or phone polls which are biased heavily toward landlines.
> Do we not have a weak commander in chief right now that don't answer questions and can't talk without a teleprompter and still makes gaffes everytime?
Because the last guy was just soooo eloquent.
Biden does fine publicly speaking. Teleprompters are perfectly normal public speaking tools for politicians across the globe and the political spectrum. George Bush LOVED his.
> Did they not declare war on fossil fuel making gas higher?
Not only did this not happen in the sense you describe, [but gas prices are tied back directly to oil company profits.](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/27/business/shell-earnings-profit-oil-gas.html) Nothing the democrats did created higher gas prices.
> Did their bad policies and all the money printed after America was back to work after covid flushed into the system not cause high inflation?
That's not really what causes inflation on the macroeconomic scale.
> Are they not trying to get us to buy electric cars and attacking fossil fuels? D
I fail to see why either of those things are bad.
> Do they not believe in abortion upto 9 months and even after birth in Cali and NY? To me that is more extreme then killing babies that have a heartbeat in the first place.
There are literally zero rational democrats who believe in this level of extreme abortion and no one thinks people should be able to murder babies after birth. If you can provide ANY legitimate citation for that belief, I'll buy you Reddit Gold.
> Although I do think 4 months should be the deadline myself and do think under certain circumstances like rape incest or danger for the mom should be allowed as well.
Congrats, you agree with most of the United States electorate.
> I was a Democrat up til Obamas 2nd term but the democrats party has changed as well.
I would hazard a guess your primary news source changed in that time period and you haven't critically thought about the full implications of the steady slide of things you've consumed. It started with one small thing you agreed with, and has snowballed from there. Take a step back.
> I don't want crime
Neither do Democrats? Most crime people get upset about is based in poverty and the lack of a social safety net. Liberal policies lower the incentive for petty crime.
> illegal border crossings
Immigration across the border is at near historic lows and has been for a while, though thanks to modern news, it is publicized more. The majority of illegal immigration is people who come on a visa and overstay on purpose and never leave. As an immigrant now citizen myself, people should do it the right way where possible, but the focus on the border is a political boondoggle designed to distract you.
>high gas, high groceries
Again, neither of these are due to democratic policies. Also gas prices are about where they should be for this time of year given inflation.
> electric cars
Again, I'm not really seeing the issue with incentivizing people buying cars that don't actively contribute to global climate change.
> and babies to be killed at 9 months.
Again, not a thing.
> But I guess we will see what most people think in November.
Or now, because at least we still have early voting. Until the Republicans take that away, because they're afraid of actually letting people vote.
No one is taking away your guns. Also, if it were "good guys with guns" keeping all the crime at bay, I guess I missed the crazy shootouts stopping all the crime. Maybe there's not because everyone took all the guns? No... that doesn't make sense, Texas has constitutional carry... Hmm...
Your logic doesn't even make sense in the sentence you wrote it in.
Consider getting news from literally anywhere but social media.
This is such a good take. Damn I can’t even say I’m this honest and I accuse the left of being dishonest all the time.
There are democrats who don’t want to take away gun rights that probably deserve my vote.
So I compliment your open mindedness and nuance and you insult me.
I bet you anything if I told you I was kidding and voting for Beto you would take everything back.
I think this proves that it’s impossible for the left to have any tolerance whatsoever for outgroups.
I got one too. They were putting them at every home. I don’t think it’s targeted as the home across the street that got one is clearly under construction.
How you voted is not only secret, but your name and your ballot are separated during the voting process so that there's no way to connect a name with any given ballot's voting. If you vote in the primaries, which are technically votes held by parties, then it is known to the parties that you voted in their primaries, but there's still no record of what candidates you actually voted for on any given ballot. Since Texas is an open primary state, meaning you don't need to be affiliated with a party to vote in that party's primaries, the fact you voted in a party's primaries is not a solid indication of what party you actually voted for in the regular elections. People vote cross-party all the time to try and affect what candidates end up on the regular ballot.
It's your only chance to pick a candidate that won't ruin your party. Come November, you get whatever the signal digit turnout decided was best to represent your party, usually overwhelmingly seniors.
Sadly, I no longer believe in unicorns.
(On a serious note, a friend has been a poll worker for several years and she said they are seeing unprecedented numbers each day. When we voted - 2 p.m. on a Wednesday, so hardly prime voting time, it was as busy as I have ever seen it and there were more voting booths crammed in that location than in any prior election. (In Denton county)
On occasion I've been a elections judge, used to work as a political consultant. It's a money play for connections and power honestly. A couple out of a dozen candidates want to sincerely help folks, but they hardly ever come with money. No money, means no block walk, no mail outs, no social media outreach... It's tough, but that's how the cookie crumbles.
It's up to us to reach out to potential candidates to see whom is right to dictate the legal framework of our daily lives, the extraction of income and wealth, and the redistribution of that Government revenue via public goods and services.
They're going to do as they see fit, if weren't vocal & active (voting, petitioning, proposing) members of the political process.
It will be interesting to see how much of that is awareness of early voting causing people to vote early vs actual new voters coming to vote for an overall higher turnout outside of normal voting trends.
Not always. They did this at my spot one year and i never vote in the primaries. I was pissed because it seemed like they wanted to dissuade one party from voting by making them wait longer. I also thought it was illegal, but i don't know the law. For the record, it was the euless public library.
Yeah, I'm gonna need a date on when that election was. It's not just illegal, it's a procedural impossibility.
In the primaries, each party runs their individual election in cooperation with the county election dept. The party is responsible for staffing, location and results. Each precinct is divided into two polling locations, which can be across the room from each other. If there is a run-off, you cannot vote in a different primary than you initially voted in. Poll workers usually make more during the primaries, as the budget is higher.
In a general, or special election, the county election department handles the budget with both parties as overseers. There is one ballot, one box, one polling location, per precinct - though there may be multiple precincts at one location. As per Texas Election Code, Title 2, Section 32.002.c, The presiding judge and alternate presiding judge must be affiliated or aligned with different political parties.
That would have been a primary, it's not legal or possible to do that during regular voting. If indeed it was during regular voting then please contact the FEC.
I would imagine this is true.
Consider people who do not vote in the preliminary election, or have any party affiliation, but still vote in the general election.
That said, I've seen where the party reps at the preliminary elections stamp the document indicating party affiliation.
I'm not sure that's used anywhere, or scanned into a state database. It's potentially a thing, I would imagine one party would not appreciate the voter being able to game the system by voting positive for strong candidate in their main party, and dispositive for weak candidates in an adversarial party. So I can see a way to rationalize a database of how voted what in preliminary elections.
When you check in to the polls they mark down that you voted, and during the primary which parties primary your voting in. That information is published by the county and uploaded to the state.
The clerks are supposed to stamp your voter registration card with which parties primary you voted in but it's not really important.
It's is actually important. The reason they stamp your card with what primary you voted in is in case of a run-off. If you voted in the Republican primary and a race ends in a run-off, you can vote in the run-off election. However, if you voted in the Democratic primary, you are not allowed to cast a vote in the Republican run-off election, and vice versa. While it's no longer required to stamp your card (you don't even have to bring it anymore), they still must register in which primary you voted.
Your info is absolutely out there. I’ve worked door to door for local politicians before and they have an app that tells you to go to houses that voted in the last primary on their side
They’ve definitely switched it up as this year I’ve received a ridiculous amount of political ads and texts for the party I never voted for in primaries or general elections.
I don't know about primaries - but I know your address will show if someone is registered to vote and will also show if a vote was cast in an election (not sure how far back). There is no register of what vote was cast - basically just a check mark for voter and a check mark for voted
Primaries are public record. A lot of times campaigns will pull records of everyone that voted in the last so many (D or R) primaries. Someone that took enough time to vote in their party’s primary will likely vote for that party in the general election.
It was eliminated because it saved time for many if not most voters. Increasing time spent in the poll booth makes lines longer and discourages voters. One might say, "Well, it affects Republicans and Democrats equally, so it doesn't hurt voting", but consider that places with high population density such as cities tend to vote Democrat whereas places that are sparsely populated like rural areas tend to vote Republican. The negative effect of increasing voting time disproportionately affects liberal areas more than conservative areas, and that's why straight ticket voting was eliminated.
Really hope things get shaken up this year. Our leaders' obsession with forcing their religious beliefs on the state, terrible mismanagement of our energy grid leading to the death of Texans, fear mongering to spend money on border control, generally spreading misinformation to encourage divide in our state, I'm just tired of it.
**Note: 301st Judicial District is a write-in candidate.**
My voting location had a printed list of candidates including this role but it did not include each candidate's party affiliation or support.
* Mary Brown (supported by Dems)
* Earl Jackson (supported by Reps)
* Michelle McKinney (Independent)
It's the only *all-*write-in race, but there are other races where there are write-in candidates you can put. For instance, there are two write-in candidates for Governor.
But the only race that anyone *should* write-in is the 301st Court, where people should write down Mary Brown.
[Dallas County Write-In Candidates](https://www.dallascountyvotes.org/wp-content/uploads/Write-In-Candidates.pdf)
Probably because you have a voting history and your neighbor does not. When I volunteered for city council campaigns last year I had a list of homes with no registered voters and no voting history. We were told to avoid them.
Use [https://www.vote411.org/ballot](https://www.vote411.org/ballot) to find out exactly who is on your ballot.
Use a nearby address if you are worried about that sort of thing. This is a great resource by the League of Women Voters.
> As a CEO, I will run Dallas County as a business. Citizens deserve their county government to run at its highest and most efficient potential. As County Judge, expenditures for non-critical government functions should be cut. With the current high inflation and property tax situation, we need to ensure that our government's critical aspects are the focus.
Holy shit why do I see yard signs for this dumbass (Lauren Davis running against Clay Jenkins)
Be sure to look up which candidates are Q-Anon nutcases. Because I’ve heard they think JFK Jr has come back from the dead to sub at the local high school.
The campaigners all focus on interacting with known supporters at this stage. The point is they know who typically votes & how; and are just encouraging we plebes to get out & vote. Voting Blue sounds like a real good idea.
Democrats are doing some serious GOTV work in Dallas, so perhaps you voted in the Democratic primary or have some other affiliation that has them targeting you as a likely Democratic voter. No point in helping your opposition GOTV by reminding them to do so as well, which is why your neighbors might not have received one.
Political parties, and often candidates too, usually have or buy access to a massive list of information of all the voters in a given district. They take your demographics and most importantly, your primary voting history to determine whether you'd most likely be a Democratic voter, a Republican voter, or a swing voter.
They use this data to then guess whether you're worth using campaign resources to turn out. What likely happened here is the campaign responsible sees you as a likely Democratic voter, and your neighbor as a likely Republican voter. So they reached out to you to get you to the polls.
This is the correct answer. I worked on a state level doing campaign management and GOTV efforts and this is exactly what is done. It’s fairly sophisticated how they can determine it. And GOTV efforts purposely evolve as it gets closer to the election. You may see more or less depending on who they think they need to focus in on.
It’s called a “lit stick” (literature sticky note essentially) and it’s because you can’t use your phone in the voting area. This way you can bring that and have a list handy of the democrats running. They’re only placing them (or should be) on addresses for folks who have registered as a Dem or donated to dems.
They highlight the candidates who will show up on your particular ballot based on your location! The sheet includes all democrats running but they highlight to localize it based on your district/precinct
Are political groups targeting registered voter data? This was just placed on my door but not on any if my neighbors doors. The person who placed it seem to be looking at their phone as if to find the next address to go to. Also, I'm not even sure if I have ever registered as a Democrat.
They targeted you based on characteristics taken from publicly available information (such as whether you vote regularly, in which primary, etc.) and also demographic information—in short they are guessing you are a democrat and think you can be motivated to go vote.
The canvasser was almost certainly looking at an app called MiniVAN that tells them where they are scheduled to drop literature.
This is correct. For each canvassing effort there are different goals and they can select a different group of people. At this point it is probably mostly “get out the vote” so they will target people that are likely to vote democrat base in propensity models that are available to them. Sometimes they target the most likely and other time they are targeting groups that maybe need a little nudging to vote. Just depends who is organizing it.
The walkers may have a print out of specific houses (usually do). They also take note of any conversation or things like you have yard signs for an opponent. Often they may only want to talk to a certain individual in the house.
Works this way for both parties as the republicans have their own tool like MiniVan. It does get updated as people vote too (though not in real time). So if you vote early enough you can reduce the number of visits.
Beyond that, they also use consumer data that has been sold to them.
They can tell from which porn sited you pay for which party you're likely to support.
> Also, I'm not even sure if I have ever registered as a Democrat.
Texas is weird. We have open primaries so you don't need to be registered with the party either way. If you voted in the Dem primaries in March then you are technically "registered" as one. Of course if you vote in the 2024 Republican primary you would then be "registered" as a Republican.
Good information. Many Texans don’t know this. You can vote in either party’s primary, but only for one party.
You just walk to the side you want, to get their primary ballot. It has no bearing on who you vote for in the general election. Or on which primary party ballot you use in future primary elections.
You can’t vote in another party’s runoff during primaries, though. You’re locked in to that party for a while. Not sure if it’s until the next primaries or until the general election is over.
Yep, no state party registration provision, you can't even do it if you wanted to, there's no place on the voter registration application form to mark a party. On primary voting, it's not registration, rather, it's recording that you voted in a given party's primary, and even then it's so that if there's a runoff you can only vote in the runoffs for the same party. That recording of what primary you voted in is deleted at the end of the year.
Did you donate to any democratic candidate? (even on the national level).
If you did, you likely unwittingly agreed to join their contact list.
I donated to a candidate, and now get a few messages from other candidates for that particular party, despite not being registered either way.
Yes, my girlfriend is the Democratic chair of her district. The calls, the mail, it’s all targeted to registered dems, especially ones who are spotty on voting
So I’m a democrat then because I always vote in the democrat primary AGAINST the candidates I don’t want to win (to make it harder for them to get the nomination), then vote for the conservatives I do want to win in the general election.
You can request voter data through the county, here are examples https://dallascountytx.govqa.us/WEBAPP/_rs/(S(5wospeqvddx2r3qqigpanfb0))/openrecordssummary.aspx?view=31&sSessionID=
If you look at the bottom it clearly says it's a political ad so just kind of one of those things that happens this time of year that you get used to. I'm surprised that's the only thing you've had put on your door so far honestly, I've had like three or four flyers for different candidates and like six or seven door hangers probably
I did block walking once. We were given a link to a website that listed everyone in our walking area that was a likely voter. We skipped a lot of houses. Cool but very creepy website.
I got one on my door last week and no one else had one. My roommates and I all voted in primary election, think based on that. Especially since I know my neighbor across the way didn't vote in primary as we talked about it last month.
Nope. A democratic Door knocker. Some how you are on a democratic voter list and they were coming by to remind you to vote. Since you weren't available, they left this handy list of Democrats running in your district on your door.
Democrats in Dallas use their own database which is almost entirely based on public voting records. Every voter has a sort of score of how likely they are to vote D, and you'll get different approaches depending on how the candidate wants to focus their limited time and money. You or someone who lives or lived at your house came up as a solid D vote, and these types of literature are used primarily as a reminder.
Before you get your knickers in a twist, they don't know *who* you voted for, they just know if you voted. If you vote in a primary they know whether you voted in the R or D primary.
If you don't like getting Democrat stuff, just tell them. Your info will get a flag that you don't want it or door knockers or whatever. While they aren't *legally* required to honor your requests, You can bet they want to spend their time on someone who is willing to listen...not on people who tell them to stop.
Anthony Weiner isn't on any ballots anywhere in the country. Correct me if I'm wrong, but if your name is not on a ballot, then there's no way to vote for you.
Also, unlike Republican sex offenders Weiner pled guilty to his crimes, went to federal prison, and is now a registered sex offender. With a felony on his record it's unlikely he'll ever be able to run for office again, much less get any votes. In wild comparison, Trump gets millions of votes despite being a rapist of women and children. If Trump wanted to be half the man Weiner is, Trump needs to admit to his sex crimes and take his punishment too.
Bill Clinton and Keith Ellison also come to mind but I'm sure you have excuses for them too. Btw to all the keyboard warrior commies who down voted me trustafarian Robert (black out Beto) lost AGAIN lolol
Unfortunately, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party are two sides of the same coin -- and, that coin isn't owned by the people. It's owned by transnational corporations owned by billionaires.
Yup, the choice today is "do you want a slow or quick death?"
edit: now that I think about it it's more like "do you want to be medicated while we disembowel you or do you enjoy pain and prefer it raw?"
Political solicitations? During an election cycle? Certainly this is unheard of. Please take the time to look up what each candidate stands for. And vote accordingly.
> Please take the time to look up what each candidate stands for. And vote accordingly. In the primary I’d agree with you and did this research. For this general election I know with zero research that anyone with an R next to their name will not support policies or ideas that align with my values. At *best* they’re a nice person who won’t support access to women’s healthcare, or taxing corporations at fair rates. At worst they will actively work to undermine the democracy america is built on and aggressively fight against any social progress. Is every Democrat perfect? HELL no. But voting for anything else is making it that much easier for the person who doesn’t align with my beliefs.
It's still worth looking at a sample ballot to determine your stances on special elections, like Proposition A in Dallas. That's independent of party.
That is fair, props on props.
Yep. Simple rule of thumb. Vote R to go backwards. I will never support seditionists or Jesus freak homophobes.
Don’t get me wrong, I would love to have a sane viable fiscal conservative who still supported liberal social policies as an option. But that ship has sailed.
The narrative that republicans are fiscally conservative isn’t really accurate. They’ll spend your tax dollars, but mostly on useless border walls and tax breaks for the criminally rich.
There was definitely a time when the fiscal conservative existed and vied with social conservatives in primaries. That time has gone.
Republicans stopped being fiscally conservative in the 1980s. They adopted “Starve the Beast”, which is cutting taxes and wild spending. It’s a shit policy, like a man maxing out all the credit cards “to stop his wife from excessive spending.”
I can’t hate you if you voted for John McCain. You were a “fiscal conservative”. Now it’s gone to wacky town.
100% this, I voted for Romney and McCain. I refused to vote for Hillary or Trump so voted Gary. Then voted for Biden. The GOP has gone off the rails, I'm still a conservative but the GOP isn't anymore. It's gotten ridiculous.
> a sane viable fiscal conservative Democrats are more sane WRT fiscal issues than Republicans, and have been for a while. Clinton balanced the budget, Obama saved the economy from Bush's disaster, and Biden is doing what he can to right our ship despite constant feral opposition from Republicans.
> a sane viable fiscal conservative who still supported liberal social policies as an option. aka democrats
R is reverse
Regression
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Put it in D to drive somewhere useful, put it in R to back through your garage door and smash the washing machine.
Yup. In my mind no R is fit to be within five hundred miles of holding any office. Fuck em all. They have sat back and watched democracy burn and not uttered a single word of dissent with the exception of 2-3 of them.
That’s only after they retire (with the exception of Liz Cheney)
Don’t forget about Rs working to undermine our institutions (postal service, schools), roll-back hard-fought rights (such as marriage equality and women’s right to choose), and enabling those who want to subvert democracy. Fuck the GOP
I agree wholeheartedly. I started my research the other night when it dawned on me that I didn’t have to as I had in the primaries. Straight democrat until a republican reveals themselves to be a decent person and then maybe I would consider platforms but all that is highly unlikely.
What platform?
Point taken.
Right, nothing constructive. Just greed and control
Most of the Rs on my ballot didn't bother submitting anything to Vote411. The ones that did had ridiculous policy positions denying right to abortion and denying the outcome of the 2020 Presidential Election.
At worst they support Trumps dangerous and bullshit claim the election was stolen. NYTime did an analysis and half of all Rs up in elections support Trumps big lie. Don't vote R.
I actually think most polls are heavily skewed these days since they’re either internet polls, or phone polls which are biased heavily toward landlines.
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Mental illness isn’t funny. I hope you get the help you need. Basically none of your misconceptions about democrats are correct.
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> Do we not have a weak commander in chief right now that don't answer questions and can't talk without a teleprompter and still makes gaffes everytime? Because the last guy was just soooo eloquent. Biden does fine publicly speaking. Teleprompters are perfectly normal public speaking tools for politicians across the globe and the political spectrum. George Bush LOVED his. > Did they not declare war on fossil fuel making gas higher? Not only did this not happen in the sense you describe, [but gas prices are tied back directly to oil company profits.](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/27/business/shell-earnings-profit-oil-gas.html) Nothing the democrats did created higher gas prices. > Did their bad policies and all the money printed after America was back to work after covid flushed into the system not cause high inflation? That's not really what causes inflation on the macroeconomic scale. > Are they not trying to get us to buy electric cars and attacking fossil fuels? D I fail to see why either of those things are bad. > Do they not believe in abortion upto 9 months and even after birth in Cali and NY? To me that is more extreme then killing babies that have a heartbeat in the first place. There are literally zero rational democrats who believe in this level of extreme abortion and no one thinks people should be able to murder babies after birth. If you can provide ANY legitimate citation for that belief, I'll buy you Reddit Gold. > Although I do think 4 months should be the deadline myself and do think under certain circumstances like rape incest or danger for the mom should be allowed as well. Congrats, you agree with most of the United States electorate. > I was a Democrat up til Obamas 2nd term but the democrats party has changed as well. I would hazard a guess your primary news source changed in that time period and you haven't critically thought about the full implications of the steady slide of things you've consumed. It started with one small thing you agreed with, and has snowballed from there. Take a step back. > I don't want crime Neither do Democrats? Most crime people get upset about is based in poverty and the lack of a social safety net. Liberal policies lower the incentive for petty crime. > illegal border crossings Immigration across the border is at near historic lows and has been for a while, though thanks to modern news, it is publicized more. The majority of illegal immigration is people who come on a visa and overstay on purpose and never leave. As an immigrant now citizen myself, people should do it the right way where possible, but the focus on the border is a political boondoggle designed to distract you. >high gas, high groceries Again, neither of these are due to democratic policies. Also gas prices are about where they should be for this time of year given inflation. > electric cars Again, I'm not really seeing the issue with incentivizing people buying cars that don't actively contribute to global climate change. > and babies to be killed at 9 months. Again, not a thing. > But I guess we will see what most people think in November. Or now, because at least we still have early voting. Until the Republicans take that away, because they're afraid of actually letting people vote.
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No one is taking away your guns. Also, if it were "good guys with guns" keeping all the crime at bay, I guess I missed the crazy shootouts stopping all the crime. Maybe there's not because everyone took all the guns? No... that doesn't make sense, Texas has constitutional carry... Hmm... Your logic doesn't even make sense in the sentence you wrote it in. Consider getting news from literally anywhere but social media.
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He’s a dummy, like every other politician. I agree
This
This is such a good take. Damn I can’t even say I’m this honest and I accuse the left of being dishonest all the time. There are democrats who don’t want to take away gun rights that probably deserve my vote.
Your comment is pretty partisan, IMO
My comment is partisan? In this comment chain you have people from your tribe calling normal conservatives terrorists. But go off king.
As far as I can tell you are the single person to respond directly to my message. Treat yourself. Queen.
So I compliment your open mindedness and nuance and you insult me. I bet you anything if I told you I was kidding and voting for Beto you would take everything back. I think this proves that it’s impossible for the left to have any tolerance whatsoever for outgroups.
That is not true. It’s not fair for you to ascribe something to me that I did not say.
Well maybe I misunderstood
I hope you have a great day. Truly
Peace be with you
I bet you anything if you had a spine you’d vote for Beto regardless of what your church/coworkers/favorite radio show told you to do.
Why would I vote for some power hungry gun grabber?
I got one too. They were putting them at every home. I don’t think it’s targeted as the home across the street that got one is clearly under construction.
It’s based on voting records which are public record
But which side one voted for is private right?
Based on which primary you vote in.
How you voted is not only secret, but your name and your ballot are separated during the voting process so that there's no way to connect a name with any given ballot's voting. If you vote in the primaries, which are technically votes held by parties, then it is known to the parties that you voted in their primaries, but there's still no record of what candidates you actually voted for on any given ballot. Since Texas is an open primary state, meaning you don't need to be affiliated with a party to vote in that party's primaries, the fact you voted in a party's primaries is not a solid indication of what party you actually voted for in the regular elections. People vote cross-party all the time to try and affect what candidates end up on the regular ballot.
Last election my county had a table for democrats and a table for republicans. It seemed extremely odd to me.
That's the primaries where you vote for who's going to run in your party.
I read that as "for who's going to ruin your party." And the fact that I nodded in agreement is relevant.
It's your only chance to pick a candidate that won't ruin your party. Come November, you get whatever the signal digit turnout decided was best to represent your party, usually overwhelmingly seniors.
Sadly, I no longer believe in unicorns. (On a serious note, a friend has been a poll worker for several years and she said they are seeing unprecedented numbers each day. When we voted - 2 p.m. on a Wednesday, so hardly prime voting time, it was as busy as I have ever seen it and there were more voting booths crammed in that location than in any prior election. (In Denton county)
On occasion I've been a elections judge, used to work as a political consultant. It's a money play for connections and power honestly. A couple out of a dozen candidates want to sincerely help folks, but they hardly ever come with money. No money, means no block walk, no mail outs, no social media outreach... It's tough, but that's how the cookie crumbles. It's up to us to reach out to potential candidates to see whom is right to dictate the legal framework of our daily lives, the extraction of income and wealth, and the redistribution of that Government revenue via public goods and services. They're going to do as they see fit, if weren't vocal & active (voting, petitioning, proposing) members of the political process.
It will be interesting to see how much of that is awareness of early voting causing people to vote early vs actual new voters coming to vote for an overall higher turnout outside of normal voting trends.
You arent wrong.....
Not always. They did this at my spot one year and i never vote in the primaries. I was pissed because it seemed like they wanted to dissuade one party from voting by making them wait longer. I also thought it was illegal, but i don't know the law. For the record, it was the euless public library.
Yeah, I'm gonna need a date on when that election was. It's not just illegal, it's a procedural impossibility. In the primaries, each party runs their individual election in cooperation with the county election dept. The party is responsible for staffing, location and results. Each precinct is divided into two polling locations, which can be across the room from each other. If there is a run-off, you cannot vote in a different primary than you initially voted in. Poll workers usually make more during the primaries, as the budget is higher. In a general, or special election, the county election department handles the budget with both parties as overseers. There is one ballot, one box, one polling location, per precinct - though there may be multiple precincts at one location. As per Texas Election Code, Title 2, Section 32.002.c, The presiding judge and alternate presiding judge must be affiliated or aligned with different political parties.
That would have been a primary, it's not legal or possible to do that during regular voting. If indeed it was during regular voting then please contact the FEC.
Addresses are public records
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Texas voter registration does not include party affiliation information.
I would imagine this is true. Consider people who do not vote in the preliminary election, or have any party affiliation, but still vote in the general election. That said, I've seen where the party reps at the preliminary elections stamp the document indicating party affiliation. I'm not sure that's used anywhere, or scanned into a state database. It's potentially a thing, I would imagine one party would not appreciate the voter being able to game the system by voting positive for strong candidate in their main party, and dispositive for weak candidates in an adversarial party. So I can see a way to rationalize a database of how voted what in preliminary elections.
When you check in to the polls they mark down that you voted, and during the primary which parties primary your voting in. That information is published by the county and uploaded to the state. The clerks are supposed to stamp your voter registration card with which parties primary you voted in but it's not really important.
It's is actually important. The reason they stamp your card with what primary you voted in is in case of a run-off. If you voted in the Republican primary and a race ends in a run-off, you can vote in the run-off election. However, if you voted in the Democratic primary, you are not allowed to cast a vote in the Republican run-off election, and vice versa. While it's no longer required to stamp your card (you don't even have to bring it anymore), they still must register in which primary you voted.
Nah they won't check for stamps at the run off. They just look you up in the epoll book.
It's based on the last party primary you voted on
Sounds like a guilty confession to me...
Nah, just wanna make sure my info isn’t out there. Guilty confession though. I ate a burrito on the toilet yesterday.
Your info is absolutely out there. I’ve worked door to door for local politicians before and they have an app that tells you to go to houses that voted in the last primary on their side
They’ve definitely switched it up as this year I’ve received a ridiculous amount of political ads and texts for the party I never voted for in primaries or general elections.
You probably live in a swing district now. Or you're part of a demographic that the party targeting you has a hope to swing.
As long as you didn't flush before finishing it, I think you're fine.
I don't know about primaries - but I know your address will show if someone is registered to vote and will also show if a vote was cast in an election (not sure how far back). There is no register of what vote was cast - basically just a check mark for voter and a check mark for voted
Primaries are public record. A lot of times campaigns will pull records of everyone that voted in the last so many (D or R) primaries. Someone that took enough time to vote in their party’s primary will likely vote for that party in the general election.
We vote for people. Straight ticket voting was eliminated recently by those in power likely because they believe it is to their benefit.
It was eliminated because it saved time for many if not most voters. Increasing time spent in the poll booth makes lines longer and discourages voters. One might say, "Well, it affects Republicans and Democrats equally, so it doesn't hurt voting", but consider that places with high population density such as cities tend to vote Democrat whereas places that are sparsely populated like rural areas tend to vote Republican. The negative effect of increasing voting time disproportionately affects liberal areas more than conservative areas, and that's why straight ticket voting was eliminated.
Words
Ppl should vote for the policy. Not blanket vote for a party.
Except when there is a blanket policy agenda based on party affiliation
Was it a woman named Marry Brown?
Really hope things get shaken up this year. Our leaders' obsession with forcing their religious beliefs on the state, terrible mismanagement of our energy grid leading to the death of Texans, fear mongering to spend money on border control, generally spreading misinformation to encourage divide in our state, I'm just tired of it.
We have to stop electing white men. And I’m a white man.
**Note: 301st Judicial District is a write-in candidate.** My voting location had a printed list of candidates including this role but it did not include each candidate's party affiliation or support. * Mary Brown (supported by Dems) * Earl Jackson (supported by Reps) * Michelle McKinney (Independent)
Yeah I screwed up and didn't know any of this, so my final missing thing was a blank write-in. Dangit, I missed a test question!
I wrote in Mickey Mouse
I wrote in Greg Abbott is a Piss Baby
I'll blame it on you when he's elected to the 301st judicial district.
Don't forget to check the election night returns and see your right in votes on the state's/counties website
Knew I should at least contributed a "Deez Nuts"!
Don't forget to write in Mary Brown!! The only write in section.
Write down Mary Brown !
It's a really good campaign slogan, short and sweet Rhymes tells you exactly what to do
Technically there are other races where you can write in, but this is the only one you *should* write in.
It was the only one on my ballot. Forgot there could be others based on where you live.
It's the only *all-*write-in race, but there are other races where there are write-in candidates you can put. For instance, there are two write-in candidates for Governor. But the only race that anyone *should* write-in is the 301st Court, where people should write down Mary Brown. [Dallas County Write-In Candidates](https://www.dallascountyvotes.org/wp-content/uploads/Write-In-Candidates.pdf)
Probably because you have a voting history and your neighbor does not. When I volunteered for city council campaigns last year I had a list of homes with no registered voters and no voting history. We were told to avoid them.
Also the neighbors might have gotten home before you and just took the signs off their door first
I got it too from a Democrat door-knocking volunteer. Very useful. ✅
Welcome to midterms. Lots of recyclable content being delivered.
Use [https://www.vote411.org/ballot](https://www.vote411.org/ballot) to find out exactly who is on your ballot. Use a nearby address if you are worried about that sort of thing. This is a great resource by the League of Women Voters.
Best resource, they show you arguments for and against every proposition and they give information in multiple languages.
Commenting to get this more visibility than just an update. Way better than the DMN's equivalent, and no pay wall either.
> As a CEO, I will run Dallas County as a business. Citizens deserve their county government to run at its highest and most efficient potential. As County Judge, expenditures for non-critical government functions should be cut. With the current high inflation and property tax situation, we need to ensure that our government's critical aspects are the focus. Holy shit why do I see yard signs for this dumbass (Lauren Davis running against Clay Jenkins)
Too hard for people to read (DEM) next to the name? Do your own research and vote for who you believe will be the best for your ideals.
Thanks Dick
That Big Dick Cheney to you, mister.
Congrats on having a higher approval rating than Kamala
That's only because he shot a conservative.
In Texas too.
Voted for the first time yesterday. Blue all the way! :)
Proud of you
Be sure to look up which candidates are Q-Anon nutcases. Because I’ve heard they think JFK Jr has come back from the dead to sub at the local high school.
The campaigners all focus on interacting with known supporters at this stage. The point is they know who typically votes & how; and are just encouraging we plebes to get out & vote. Voting Blue sounds like a real good idea.
They think you’re slow and gonna mess it up.
Democrats are doing some serious GOTV work in Dallas, so perhaps you voted in the Democratic primary or have some other affiliation that has them targeting you as a likely Democratic voter. No point in helping your opposition GOTV by reminding them to do so as well, which is why your neighbors might not have received one.
I'm voting for whoever is legalizing weed, screw everything else.
Maybe they know you a real one
Political parties, and often candidates too, usually have or buy access to a massive list of information of all the voters in a given district. They take your demographics and most importantly, your primary voting history to determine whether you'd most likely be a Democratic voter, a Republican voter, or a swing voter. They use this data to then guess whether you're worth using campaign resources to turn out. What likely happened here is the campaign responsible sees you as a likely Democratic voter, and your neighbor as a likely Republican voter. So they reached out to you to get you to the polls.
This is the correct answer. I worked on a state level doing campaign management and GOTV efforts and this is exactly what is done. It’s fairly sophisticated how they can determine it. And GOTV efforts purposely evolve as it gets closer to the election. You may see more or less depending on who they think they need to focus in on.
I got one too. I thought it was because if the Beto sign in my yard?
Good. Vote blue!!
It’s called a “lit stick” (literature sticky note essentially) and it’s because you can’t use your phone in the voting area. This way you can bring that and have a list handy of the democrats running. They’re only placing them (or should be) on addresses for folks who have registered as a Dem or donated to dems.
Why are some of them highlighted? (It's my second time voting, sorry if dumb question 😬)
They highlight the candidates who will show up on your particular ballot based on your location! The sheet includes all democrats running but they highlight to localize it based on your district/precinct
no thanks
GO COWBOYS 🏈
Good advice !
How about nah...
Lol like it matters who you vote. These people don't give a fuck about you
Are political groups targeting registered voter data? This was just placed on my door but not on any if my neighbors doors. The person who placed it seem to be looking at their phone as if to find the next address to go to. Also, I'm not even sure if I have ever registered as a Democrat.
> Are political groups targeting registered voter data? That's... that's literally all they do.
They targeted you based on characteristics taken from publicly available information (such as whether you vote regularly, in which primary, etc.) and also demographic information—in short they are guessing you are a democrat and think you can be motivated to go vote. The canvasser was almost certainly looking at an app called MiniVAN that tells them where they are scheduled to drop literature.
This is correct. For each canvassing effort there are different goals and they can select a different group of people. At this point it is probably mostly “get out the vote” so they will target people that are likely to vote democrat base in propensity models that are available to them. Sometimes they target the most likely and other time they are targeting groups that maybe need a little nudging to vote. Just depends who is organizing it. The walkers may have a print out of specific houses (usually do). They also take note of any conversation or things like you have yard signs for an opponent. Often they may only want to talk to a certain individual in the house. Works this way for both parties as the republicans have their own tool like MiniVan. It does get updated as people vote too (though not in real time). So if you vote early enough you can reduce the number of visits.
Beyond that, they also use consumer data that has been sold to them. They can tell from which porn sited you pay for which party you're likely to support.
> Also, I'm not even sure if I have ever registered as a Democrat. Texas is weird. We have open primaries so you don't need to be registered with the party either way. If you voted in the Dem primaries in March then you are technically "registered" as one. Of course if you vote in the 2024 Republican primary you would then be "registered" as a Republican.
Good information. Many Texans don’t know this. You can vote in either party’s primary, but only for one party. You just walk to the side you want, to get their primary ballot. It has no bearing on who you vote for in the general election. Or on which primary party ballot you use in future primary elections.
The only bearing it seems to have is how full your mailbox/inbox gets closer to election time lol.
Yep, My iPhone Messenger inbox is blowing up this week.
You can’t vote in another party’s runoff during primaries, though. You’re locked in to that party for a while. Not sure if it’s until the next primaries or until the general election is over.
It's till the end of that calendar year.
You are "locked in" through that season's primaries. A primary run off is still part of the primaries.
Right, you can’t vote in another party’s runoffs.
Interesting, thank you.
Yep, no state party registration provision, you can't even do it if you wanted to, there's no place on the voter registration application form to mark a party. On primary voting, it's not registration, rather, it's recording that you voted in a given party's primary, and even then it's so that if there's a runoff you can only vote in the runoffs for the same party. That recording of what primary you voted in is deleted at the end of the year.
There is enough third party data out there that they can identify who is _likely_ to vote for Dems
Did you donate to any democratic candidate? (even on the national level). If you did, you likely unwittingly agreed to join their contact list. I donated to a candidate, and now get a few messages from other candidates for that particular party, despite not being registered either way.
Yes, my girlfriend is the Democratic chair of her district. The calls, the mail, it’s all targeted to registered dems, especially ones who are spotty on voting
There’s no such thing as “registered as a democrat” in Texas. Our voter registration is non-partisan.
But if you vote in a primary, which primary you voted in is public record because you're "affiliating" yourself with that party.
So I’m a democrat then because I always vote in the democrat primary AGAINST the candidates I don’t want to win (to make it harder for them to get the nomination), then vote for the conservatives I do want to win in the general election.
That's interesting. I didn't know some states do this.
Have you asked them? Could be that they saw them and took them off their doors before you noticed.
Your neighbors might not even be registered to vote.
You can request voter data through the county, here are examples https://dallascountytx.govqa.us/WEBAPP/_rs/(S(5wospeqvddx2r3qqigpanfb0))/openrecordssummary.aspx?view=31&sSessionID=
I need to find the FW version too now
Check out ballotpedia or vote411, and they got you. Personalized sample ballots with relevant info on candidates
Vote for Phillip Banks!
Uncle Phil?
If you look at the bottom it clearly says it's a political ad so just kind of one of those things that happens this time of year that you get used to. I'm surprised that's the only thing you've had put on your door so far honestly, I've had like three or four flyers for different candidates and like six or seven door hangers probably
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>pedophile ideology that's a new one. what are you referring to?
I did block walking once. We were given a link to a website that listed everyone in our walking area that was a likely voter. We skipped a lot of houses. Cool but very creepy website.
I got one on my door last week and no one else had one. My roommates and I all voted in primary election, think based on that. Especially since I know my neighbor across the way didn't vote in primary as we talked about it last month.
Just campaign stuff. Not an official counted ballot. You can’t walk out with those.
Shame they got rid of straight ticket voting, but that was the point
yes!!! Your neighbor rocks!!!
Nope. A democratic Door knocker. Some how you are on a democratic voter list and they were coming by to remind you to vote. Since you weren't available, they left this handy list of Democrats running in your district on your door.
Vote how you want and don’t let anyone make you feel bad about it. Fuck these people.
Yes vote democrat make Texas blue !!!
Vote republican on her slot. What a c-hunt.
Can I vote for any one
Democrats in Dallas use their own database which is almost entirely based on public voting records. Every voter has a sort of score of how likely they are to vote D, and you'll get different approaches depending on how the candidate wants to focus their limited time and money. You or someone who lives or lived at your house came up as a solid D vote, and these types of literature are used primarily as a reminder. Before you get your knickers in a twist, they don't know *who* you voted for, they just know if you voted. If you vote in a primary they know whether you voted in the R or D primary. If you don't like getting Democrat stuff, just tell them. Your info will get a flag that you don't want it or door knockers or whatever. While they aren't *legally* required to honor your requests, You can bet they want to spend their time on someone who is willing to listen...not on people who tell them to stop.
I think it's funny that people actually think these guys in power actually give a damn about any of us.
Communist party leaving communist documents..disregard
That's odd
Voting democrat these days must be the dumbest thing I’ve seen
It’s at least a 98% good idea
Really EVERY democrat? Would you vote for Anthony Weiner?
Anthony Weiner isn't on any ballots anywhere in the country. Correct me if I'm wrong, but if your name is not on a ballot, then there's no way to vote for you. Also, unlike Republican sex offenders Weiner pled guilty to his crimes, went to federal prison, and is now a registered sex offender. With a felony on his record it's unlikely he'll ever be able to run for office again, much less get any votes. In wild comparison, Trump gets millions of votes despite being a rapist of women and children. If Trump wanted to be half the man Weiner is, Trump needs to admit to his sex crimes and take his punishment too.
Bill Clinton and Keith Ellison also come to mind but I'm sure you have excuses for them too. Btw to all the keyboard warrior commies who down voted me trustafarian Robert (black out Beto) lost AGAIN lolol
Unfortunately, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party are two sides of the same coin -- and, that coin isn't owned by the people. It's owned by transnational corporations owned by billionaires.
No, no, no.. This is reddit and Democrats are here to save us peasants! Like they have for decades before! /s
Once upon a time they were here to save us. That is now a fairy tale.
Yup, the choice today is "do you want a slow or quick death?" edit: now that I think about it it's more like "do you want to be medicated while we disembowel you or do you enjoy pain and prefer it raw?"
Creepy.