Is Texas Really a Red State?

I find it hard to consider that the election went smoothly here in Texas for the Republicans. Just because  there was a good political outcome outside of Texas doesn’t mean they didn’t continue to slime their way to “victory” through fraud in several states that are considered Red.

The problem here in Texas and else where, Democrats and the media continue to claim that the election went “better than expected” and it went “relatively smoothly.” But in areas where there were problems it is being reported as “isolated problems;” and my favorite there were “just a few glitches,” “minor issues,” and “no major problems.” Now that the Democrats control both the House and the Senate, will the Democrats continue to champion election reform considering new voting machines failed from coast to coast.
Here is a list of problems in 20 Texas counties that have already been reported in the media of the problems that occurred during the elections.

The flaws of each voting system used through out Texas and the country have  exposed repeatedly by folks like Mark Crispin Miller, Bev Harris, Brad Friedman, Clint Curtis, Lynn Landes, Earl Katz and Bruce O’Dell. If that is not good enough, they also have been exposed through many academic studies like, NYU’s Brennan Center for Justice, Princeton’s Center for IT Policy, and a group of computer scientists at Johns Hopkins, Rice and Stanford universities. Even the US Government Accountability Office has put their two cents in. What more will it take to have people look into this matter? Are you waiting for it to be broadcast on your local news, you can forget it. Research conducted by the Media and Democracy Coalition (MDC) in twelve states – California, Texas, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Florida, Ohio, Washington, Oregon, Arkansas, Virginia, Montana, and Maine – found that in “every one of those states, most citizens already live in highly concentrated media markets with few choices for news and views.”

More media mergers in these highly concentrated markets will reduce already insufficient local news coverage and eliminate diverse voices and viewpoints and, in every case, exceed US Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission Merger Guidelines.  Yet these mergers would be approved by the FCC under its proposed new rules with “no questions asked.”

If polling places all across the largest state in the nation ran out of paper ballots and the voting machines didn’t work, are these really considered “isolated problems”?

If voting machines of every brand switched people’s votes or lost their votes in several counties, can we really say there were “no major problems?”

What if Texas was really a Blue state, how would we ever know if nobody ever looks into it.

Election integrity issues can no longer be considered as conspiracy theory or a thing of the past. The refusal to talk about election fraud by top Democrats in and out of Texas can only be explained that they cannot, will not, wrap their minds around the implications of what is happening now, and what will keep on happening until we are willing to face the issue. By refusing to speak about the growing danger of such fraud, it makes it hard for people to conceive that fraud can ever occur. It is up to us, not as party members, or as liberals, moderates and conservatives, but as Americans to do that vital work by spreading the word what is happening. Isn’t our democracy still worth fighting for?