Early voting has started for the May 6th election. I'll have to do it this weekend but it's still hard to find any information on candidates in local elections. School board elections are supposed to be nonpartisan, but how do you find out who's a transphobic nutjob trying to ban books and censor history? Only a few candidates have websites, and/or answer questions for the League of Women Voters' guide, so it's hard to actually know how they will act on the school board. It seems like Patriot Mobile is the rightwing PAC funding shitty candidates, but I can't find any listing for the election I actually vote in.
I don't want to elect a rightwing lunatic to a City Council position either. At the very least, I want to vote out anybody who voted against a bus system and who proudly brings this up at every election. "If we had voted for the bus, then we wouldn't have this, and this.." It's not something to be proud of, you idiot. So we didn't get the bus then; what's stopping us from trying to get a bus deal now? Is it you, you fucking idiot?
Meanwhile a longtime election administrator in Tarrant County has resigned due to the Republican judge undermining him and alleging voter fraud. If the election system was so corrupt, then why did you accept the results of your own damn election, huh? *sigh* Texas politics is so disheartening, but we gotta keep fighting.
Edited to Add a news link that came too late for early voting, which is not helpful at all for voters.
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