If You’re a Texan, Remember That We Do Not Have Same-Day Voter Registration
The deadline to register is October 7; check your status now
Against all odds, it has now been 23 days since I wrote a rant for Blow Your Stack. As fate would have it, almost the same number of days had passed between rants when I last wrote about today’s subject two years ago, a subject of enormous importance: voter registration in Texas. That 2022 piece was triggered when my youngest daughter called to say that she had checked her voter registration status (like every responsible citizen of the Republic should) and discovered that she was no longer registered.
This was odd, because once you register to vote in Texas, it renews every two years automatically; you only need to register again if you have moved and need to change your address. I initially assumed it was a computer glitch and told her to call her county clerk, which she did; they had no record of her either. It’s true that the only governmental agency that never loses information about you is the IRS (unless they owe you money), but I started to wonder if there might be more to it.
At the time, my daughter was a 21-year-old female who has publicly supported liberal causes, previously voted in a Democratic primary, lives in a county that has moved from deep red to…
