38 electoral votes
Current Texas polls
Current Texas early vote totals
From the AP: Eyes turn to Texas as early voting surge surpasses 2016
Texas has already cast nearly 7 million votes, more than anywhere in America, and Glen Murdoch couldn’t get his ballot in fast enough after becoming a U.S. citizen this summer.
“I was champing at the bit,” said Murdoch, who moved to Austin from Australia shortly after President Donald Trump took office, and cast a ballot last week to vote him out.
It’s a rush to the polls in Texas like seldom seen before.
Ten days before Election Day, Texans have already cast as many early votes as they did in 2016 and are nearly 80% of the way toward hitting the total — both early and on Election Day — counted four years ago. The voting bonanza has some Democrats optimistic that decades of low turnout and undisputed Republican dominance may soon be a thing of the past.
It’s OVER 7.2 million now, with more to come!
Btw, check out Awesome Kossack dvogel0308’s diary, Winning Texas by the Numbers.
The Biden-Harris campaign has an AMAZING site called BLUE VOTE. It has TONS of voting information on it. Go check it out!!
2016:
Counties that Clinton carried: Bexar (San Antonio), Brooks, Cameron, Culberson, Dallas (with 60%), El Paso (with 68.5%), Fort Bend, Frio, Harris (Houston, with 54%), Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Jim Wells, Kenedy, Kleberg, La Salle, Maverick, Presidio, Reeves, Starr, Travis (Austin, with 65.8%), Val Verde, Webb, Willacy, Zapata, Zavala.
Counties where Clinton was within 10: Brewster, Hays (difference of .9%), Jefferson (difference of .5%), Nueces (difference of 1.5%), Tarrant (Ft. Worth), Williamson
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Where can you find organizations that will help us win Texas?
and check out Beto’s Twitter for the latest developments.
There are more than 16,000,000 registered voters in Texas, and 21,000,000 people of voting age. How do we get ‘em out to vote Democratic?
Here’s a big list of Texas Progressive Organizations.
Here’s the Texas Progressive Action Network.
Here’s the Texas Freedom Network.
If you want to help in Texas, try The Texas Organizing Project. If you’d like to go an additional route, there’s The Texas Democratic Party.
Flip the Texas House
Here is a big list of Texas progressive organizations from ActLocal.
Here’s the Dallas County Democratic Party.
Here’s the Harris County Democratic Party. (Houston)
Here’s Texas Democratic Women.
Here’s Turn Rural Texas Blue. (From Kossack sane)
Here is the largest Latino Democratic organization in Texas, Jolt. Note: One in three eligible voters in Texas are Latino!
SwingLeft Texas
Indivisible
Movement Voter Project
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Voting in Texas
Vote on Election Day
Voters registered in Texas can look up where to vote on Texas's site.
Vote early
Texas voters can also vote before Election Day. The early voting period runs from Tuesday, October 13, 2020 to Friday, October 30, 2020, but dates and hours may vary based on where you live.
What to bring
- You will be asked to show photo ID to vote in Texas. Acceptable forms include: Texas driver's license issued by the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS); Texas election ID certificate; Texas personal ID card; Texas handgun license; US military ID with photo; US citizenship certificate with photograph (doesn't need to be current); or a US passport. Forms must be current or expired less than four years. For voters aged 70 or older, the acceptable form of photo identification may be expired for any length of time if the identification is otherwise valid.
- Voters without ID: If you don't have ID and cannot obtain one due to a reasonable impediment, you'll need to sign a sworn statement that there is a reason why you don't have any of the accepted IDs, and present one of the following: certified birth certificate; valid voter registration certificate; or a current utility bill, government check, bank statement or paycheck, or government document with your name and an address. If you meet these requirements and are eligible to vote, you may vote in the election.
- If you don't have ID and do not have a reasonable impediment to obtaining one or did not bring ID to the polling place, you may cast a provisional ballot. In order to have the provisional ballot counted, you will be required to visit the voter registrar's office within six (6) calendar days of the date of the election to either present one of the forms of photo ID or submit a temporary affidavit, or, if applicable, qualify for the disability exemption, in the presence of the county voter registrar while attesting to the fact that you do not have any of the required photo IDs.
Absentee ballot deadlines
Request: Received by Oct. 23
Return by mail: Postmarked by Nov. 3 by 7:00 p.m. and received no later than Nov. 4 by 5:00 p.m.
Texas is up for grabs! You know what I say? LET’S GRAB IT!