This is incredible. Second-most powerful politician in Texas sent a deceptive mass mailer giving bad voter registration information to the public, putting their votes at risk texastribune.org/2022/02/17/tex… 
New Texas voting laws are already creating confusion about vote-by-mail, leading to 25-40% of ballots being rejected in some counties. Elected officials should be helping to reduce this confusion. Patrick is making it worse. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-to-think…
Dan Patrick pushed Trump's fraud narrative. Which has reduced trust in elections. Patrick has used that distrust to then justify misleading voters into sending their request for ballots to *the wrong office.* Absolute contempt for the public.
Currently, the Texas Secretary of State is both:
a) arguing that it is illegal for an election official to encourage people to vote-by-mail
b) changing its own practices to minimize the damage being caused by a fellow party member deceiving members of the public.
a) arguing that it is illegal for an election official to encourage people to vote-by-mail
b) changing its own practices to minimize the damage being caused by a fellow party member deceiving members of the public.
Even setting aside the deception, the idea that state-wide (read Republican) elected officials can encourage people to vote-by-mail, but local (in some cases, Democrats) cannot seems obviously bad.
Some of the voting law changes in TX are targeted at kneecapping Dems. But in this case vote-by-mail is mostly limited to older voters who lean Republican, as will anyone likely to respond to Patrick's partisan mailer.
They will hurt their own voters to own the libs.
They will hurt their own voters to own the libs.
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