Texas Voter ID Open Thread for Election Observations

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Wednesday November 05, 2014 · 5:37 AM PST

2014/11/05 · 05:37

I'm a Texas Election Judge in the shrinking blue dot that is Austin, Travis County. Right on the border with very conservative Williamson County, our Precinct gets a lot of lost voters and many voters who move within the City of Austin, but unknowingly changing counties from Travis to Williamson county and vice-versa. In Texas, that's a deal breaker.

But yesterday was also the first time that I observed casualties of the currently unconstitutional (but still enforced) Texas Voter ID law. Here's my list. If you are an election official in Texas or have first hand knowledge of other casualties in Texas, please list below.

If your State also has Voter ID in place, feel free to weigh in. Note the State in your comments. Thanks,

mikeconwell

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Monday May 24, 2010 · 1:21 AM PDT

2010/05/24 · 01:21

I began the Right Wing Violence map shortly after the signing of the 2010 Health Care Reform act when the threatening behavior of protesters at the Capitol began to be reflected around the country.** The first incident reported on March 18th was the remark by House Minority Leader John Boehrner that a fellow Ohio congressman would be a 'dead man' if he didn't vote a certain way. This was followed by spittle, epithets and threats from protesters towards Congressmen and women as they headed to the Capitol building to vote.

Well after too much coffee on the drive back from San Antonio, I sat down to catch up and update the map with a terrible story from West Memphis, Arkansas where two police officers were killed during a traffic stop.

mikeconwell

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Wednesday March 24, 2010 · 1:02 PM PDT

2010/03/24 · 13:02

I'm beginning to document incidents of Right Wing violence beginning March 15th, 2010 during the HCR debate. Later, an accompanying map include incidents going back to the 2008 Democratic National convention.

Addresses are generalized to city centers to reduce the impact on victims (ie no home and addresses)

I'll do my best to add a timeline feature as well. For now, dates are included in title in yyyymmdd format.

Legend:
Yellow - Threats, verbal assault and hate language
Pink - Vandalism
Red - Physical violence or actions taken that directly would cause physical violence

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Friday November 20, 2009 · 10:16 AM PST

2009/11/20 · 10:16

Credit where credit is due. CafePress decides to pull vendor produced Psalm 109:8 products after all. Give them some time to work out the kinks. As we saw two days ago, when they initially pulled product, it still appeared in the catalog for a few hours, but you couldn't actually place an order for an item.

Thanks to all of y'all who worked on this. See prior blogs here, here, here and here.

mikeconwell

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Thursday November 19, 2009 · 11:17 AM PST

2009/11/19 · 11:17

(Update - Title formerly: "Death to the President - And make $$" which was more accurate, but troubling to folks)

This is a short diary, but just received a response from www.CafePress.com that they are reinstating "Pray for Obama - Psalm 109:8" products featured on their vendor sites.

As documented in yesterdays excellent but disturbing diary, Trawling for assassins vendors at Cafe Press are pushing a biblical passage that on it's own seams harmless, but when read calls for the death of Obama.

From the King James version at BibleGateway

⁸ Let his days be few; and let another take his office.
⁹Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

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Tuesday August 18, 2009 · 1:19 PM PDT

2009/08/18 · 13:19

Gun wielding protestors serve as a distraction and an additional drain upon already strained Secret Service resources. Once someone shows up with an AR-15 or a pistol on his thigh, at least one law enforcement officer is dedicated solely towards keeping an eye on that person. With as many as a dozen individuals openly carrying weapons, even while it's completely legal, it draws the attention of security personnel to manage those weapon carrying individuals.

mikeconwell

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Friday February 01, 2008 · 1:07 PM PST

2008/02/01 · 13:07

There’s a subdivision in the back of our neighborhood where the lot sizes are bigger, the houses are more prestigious and the cars in the driveway are slightly more expensive. My friend lives there.

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