As if the Texas legislative Republican caucus needed reasons to suppress voter turnout in this state. Early indications from the state elections office tells us turnout for this year’s midterm primary election is going to typically abysmal.
As of this past Thursday, only 2.7% percent of eligible voters had cast their votes early.
Just so you know — as if you need reminding — we’re going to vote on a whole array of statewide offices. The governor’s contest is the main event. Texans so far are showing little interest in casting their votes in either party primary.
OK, just so you know: I am going to wait until Election Day to cast my votes. I detest early voting and since we will be around on March 1, we’ll vote on the day of the election.
I keep yapping about this every election cycle, so forgive me for repeating myself.
I am weary of reading about hideously low voter turnout in this state. We’re likely to have single-digit percentage turnouts in both party primaries. That’s ridiculous, as in the cause for ridicule. Do you get my drift? People around the world are dying for the chance to vote. We get the chance to cast our ballots to have a tangible voice in what our government should do on our behalf, and we look the other way.
We leave these decisions to the folks next door, or to the strangers at the grocery store, or the guy at the other end of the church pew.
That isn’t how representative democracy is supposed to work.
I do not want to get the government that the other guy chooses.
