Texas, which was heading to the primaries on Tuesday, became the first state in the country to successfully test their election integrity laws. The testing grounds for electoral integrity yielded some interesting results, despite the protestations of the progressive left.
RedState’s Brad Slager reports:
There are a few results from the Texas primaries that the media is not interested in covering. Hispanics are rising in three of the House’s primary races. More were also found in state races like Janie Lopez, House District 37. While these positive indicators of minorities’ emergence are encouraging, it is not a good sign for the media. Therefore, the coverage on the matter becomes much more muted.
It was a great day for democracy, but one MSNBC guest was convinced she had suffered the dreaded Voter Suppression™ and joined host Zerlina Maxwell to tell her tale of woe.
Maxwell opened her segment with concern about some of the rejected ballots in Texas. Maxwell seems to believe that this is due to foul play and not the result she intended, which was to stop ineligible voters from casting their votes. She sees it as a failure, but that is the point.
She was joined by Texas journalist Richelle Carey, who was Very Concerned™ after her vote was rejected in the Tuesday primaries.
Today I went to Texas’ primary election. I lost my voter registration. I don’t know why or when. It’s not surprising to me. What I am…is angry. You shouldn’t find voting difficult, confusing or frustrating when you turn up at the polling location.
— Richelle Carey (@RichelleCarey) March 1, 2022
The details intrigued me. I’ve been doing this job long enough to know there’s always more to the story. The interview began with the Texas journalist expressing confusion and shock that she wasn’t “allowed” to vote. Her registration had been mysteriously canceled, even though she’d voted regularly via absentee ballot when she lived abroad in the Middle East.
“I’ve voted in various states [I’ve lived in]…and most recently even when I was living out of the country.”
The truth of this interview is only revealed at the very end. Ms. Carey did not realize she needed to reregister in Texas as an international voter upon her return. What seems strange about that isn’t that voters are expected to re-confirm their state residency and voting status once they return home, but that it hasn’t been the law in Texas all along.
It makes complete sense. I’ve lived in six states over the years and whenever I have moved I’ve been required to update my voter registration and change my residency information. Is it possible for voter rolls not to remain up-to date? Why wouldn’t we expect the same thing from someone moving home from another country?
The leade is certainly here by Ms. Carey. As Brad Slager pointed out, the results of the primary don’t really fit into the “Jim Crow on steroids” narrative the President and his cheerleaders in the media have been touting for the last year. All that was left out, of course. They must now cling onto ignorance of the law and hope that people will not read their headlines and go on to discover Carey, and all others can vote just fine as long as they update their addresses like adults.
Her vote can only be suppressed by her.
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