{"id":42940,"date":"2020-05-29T22:01:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T22:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42940"},"modified":"2020-05-29T22:01:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T22:01:01","slug":"growing-fonder-of-vote-by-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42940","title":{"rendered":"Growing fonder of vote by mail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I am not King of the World, but if I held that title, I would mandate that we all vote on Election Day, in person, in the privacy of a polling booth.<\/p>\n

However, since I cannot do that, I am left to deal with the real world. Reality<\/em> at this moment rests in a pandemic that threatens the health of voters who want to cast their ballots for president of the United States. They fear that voting in person would expose them to COVID-19. So they want to cast their ballots by mail.<\/p>\n

I do, too.<\/p>\n

Thus, I am baffled, flabbergasted and confused by the opposition to vote by mail by Texas’ top elected officials. Gov. Greg Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Attorney General Ken Paxton have formed a troika that opposes vote by mail.<\/p>\n

Why? They contend it invites rampant voter fraud. They parrot Donald Trump. They’re all Republicans. They are launching a sickening end-around game that seeks to suppress voter turnout.<\/p>\n

The Texas Tribune also reports<\/a> — and this is rich, man! — that all three of them (four if you count Trump) have cast ballots by mail in the past. They have done so out of convenience, I reckon. The TT reports that Paxton regularly votes in person in his Collin County precinct, but has voted by mail. Same for Patrick and, yes, for Abbott.<\/p>\n

So what’s the real problem here? Is it voter fraud as they contend? I think not!<\/p>\n

I am not necessarily a fan of all-mail voting. You know that already. However I prefer it by a wide margin over not voting at all.<\/em> I am one Texas resident who has a concern about potential exposure to a possible killer virus.<\/p>\n

I also want Greg Abbott, Dan Patrick and Ken Paxton to stop hiding behind a phony excuse as justification for refusing to allow as many Texans as possible to cast ballots for the next president.<\/p>\n

Rampant voter fraud does not exist. Nor will it<\/em> exist if we develop a secure system of voting by mail.<\/p>\n\n

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