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网上选民登记：行政优势
大多数州（39 个州加上哥伦比亚特区）现在都为公民提供在线登记投票的机会。从州的角度来看，提供这一机会非常有意义：它使选民名册更加准确和最新，比过时的纸质方法更便宜，选举官员更容易管理，并且可以安全地完成，从而增强了人们对我们选举系统的信心。人们普遍认为，在线选民登记 (OVR) 仍然是一项无党派改革，对选民没有好处……
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比尔·惠特克：对麦克伦南县投票中心的批评忽视了许多变量和优势
“如果投票站的排队很长，而附近投票站的排队较短，那么我们的志愿者投票监督员将接受培训，在选民到达投票站时、选民排队之前向他们提供这些信息，”Common Cause Texas 执行董事安东尼·古铁雷斯 (Anthony Gutierrez) 在与哈里斯县选举官员会面后表示。“我们还将在选举前开展一项公众意识活动，鼓励德克萨斯州民众提前投票，或者，如果他们符合条件，可以通过邮寄方式投票。我们还将鼓励人们填写样本……
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Dallas County’s Super Tuesday Redo Stems From Philosophical Differences in Elections
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‘Absolutely Unconscionable’: Hourslong Lines to Vote in Texas on Super Tuesday ‘Point to a Bigger Systemic Problem’
"Long lines in any single county can happen for any number of reasons but multi-hour wait times all over the state point to a bigger systemic problem," Common Cause Texas executive director Anthony Gutierrez said in a statement Wednesday. "That problem, to put it bluntly, is that the people in power in state government have no interest in making it easier for Texans to vote."
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Five Reasons Election Day Lines Were So Long in Texas
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Young black and Latino voters spent hours waiting to vote in Texas and the state can’t even say how it will fix the problem before November
According to the study, Dallas County had the most poll location closures, 74. The county has a population that is 41% Latino and 22% percent African American, according to the study. Travis County, Harris County, Brazoria County, and Nueces County — all locations with high levels of people who identify as minorities — rounded out the top of the list of locations where polling locations were cut by officials. It wasn't just Texas. Arizona and Georgia also closed hundreds of polling locations.
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Texans Forced to Wait to Vote on Super Tuesday
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Why Did It Take So Long to Vote in Texas and California?
In some cities, purchases of new voting machines slowed the balloting as voters labored to apply the new technology to the state’s notoriously long ballot. “All over the state, we saw a lot of late openings attributed to technology issues,” said Anthony Gutierrez, the executive director of Common Cause Texas, which helped run a hotline that flagged voting problems. “People were used to voting on the same machine for two decades, and there was going to be some training time required.”
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Long lines at some voting sites have many Texans waiting in frustration to cast ballots
Anthony Gutierrez, executive director of the watchdog group Common Cause Texas, laid the overarching blame on state policymakers.
"I would frankly chalk up most of the issues we’re seeing (on Election Day) to Texas being a state that doesn’t prioritize voting," he said. "Problems like the Secretary of State website crashing and the widespread voting technology issues could have been easily avoided if the state allocated resources towards election infrastructure.”
"I would frankly chalk up most of the issues we’re seeing (on Election Day) to Texas being a state that doesn’t prioritize voting," he said. "Problems like the Secretary of State website crashing and the widespread voting technology issues could have been easily avoided if the state allocated resources towards election infrastructure.”
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Long Lines, Broken Machines Causing Frustration For Some Voters in Dallas, Tarrant Counties
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In person early voting rose for Democrats, dropped for Republicans from 2016
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德克萨斯州共同事业要求投票德克萨斯州 PAC 停止在竞选邮件上使用共同事业徽标
德克萨斯州共同事业组织执行董事安东尼·古铁雷斯的声明
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Vote Texas PAC’s Unauthorized Use of Common Cause’s Logo on Political Ad
