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Texans react to mailer for Trump, call it voter intimidation (www.mysanantonio.com)

submitted 5 months ago by Five@slrpnk.net to c/texas@lemmy.world

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[-] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 83 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

“Your voting record is public… Your neighbors are watching and will know

Fucking NO. This is not acceptable. This isn’t advertising, it isn’t campaigning, it’s un-American intimidation.

Super late edit: anti-American -> un-American

[-] Jallu@sopuli.xyz 15 points 5 months ago

Is it true, though, the voting record being public?

[-] Dubiousx99@lemmy.world 61 points 5 months ago

Yes. The fact that you vote or not, is a matter of public record. How you vote is not a matter of public record.

[-] Jallu@sopuli.xyz 19 points 5 months ago

Thanks for the clarification.

I'm from Finland, where even the idea of knowing who voted or not is totally absurd.

[-] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago

I hope you’re joking. The privacy of how one votes is foundational. It’s how you feel safe voting against the government in a democracy. The perceived lack of it has been a conservative lying point fighting mail in ballots. This is a worse example. Far worse.

[-] Jallu@sopuli.xyz 8 points 5 months ago

I wasn't joking, just wondering if that it could be true.

I'm from Finland, where even the idea is totally absurd.

[-] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

Ah, please accept my apologies then.

I’m a Canadian, but we are quite familiar with US civics by nature of neighbourly love and media saturation. We also share an absolute respect for the sanctity of one’s vote, or at least did.

My reaction to your question was to assume you were a US citizen who was under the impression that the threat in the OP - that one’s vote against Trump would be known by the Republican Party - was legitimate. This compounded my anger at the already ludicrous example of fascism and/or authoritarianism in the OP in seeing someone victim to it. Missing the civil basics whose absence is part of why we are in this… situation.

Apologies again for the wrong assumption. The world is terrifying right now.

[-] Jallu@sopuli.xyz 6 points 5 months ago

No worries at all. Maybe to begin with I should have said I'm not from the US.

I understand your point and agree with you. There's something going on with the democratic platform in the US, something which should frighten us all.

Top that with everything else going on in the world, it is really terrifying like you said.

[-] bornjett@mastodon.social 11 points 5 months ago

You can see if they voted, not how:

https://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/laws/address-confidentiality.shtml

[-] Jallu@sopuli.xyz 5 points 5 months ago

Thanks for the clarification.

I'm from Finland, where even the idea of knowing who voted or not is totally absurd.

[-] pop@lemmy.ml -2 points 5 months ago

un-American

Ha! Intimidation is holy grail of the USA. Read up on your history, boy.

[-] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 42 points 5 months ago

This is so fucking funny to me.

Hell yeah theyre going to put it on your PERMANENT RECORD. Jesus.

[-] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago

Right alongside the entry that shows I threw a paper airplane at Mrs. Fitzgerald in 4th grade? I'm just shaking in my boots, I tell you.

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 27 points 5 months ago

Although this is quite the norm for fashist regimes like the one that the GOP wants to build with Führer Trump.

[-] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 months ago

This reminds me of how in 2004 I was a college student in New Hampshire and I got a pamphlet that had a warning that it was illegal for college students from out-of-state to vote there (which isn't true) on one side and an ad for G. W. Bush on the other.