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Bexar County could send letters to each household asking
1 Do you have anyone who recently turned 18?
2 Do you have anyone in your residence who recently moved?
3. Do you know how to check your voter registration? (Give instructions)
4. Do you or anyone in your residence need to update your registration? Then provide methods and make lots of forms available at county offices and libraries
5. Do you have any questions? Provide a hotline
6. If you are not registered or have never registered...provide info
AND to satisfy Paxton, put in big red letters, "Only US citizens can register to vote"
By beefing up the availability of applications, teaching voters how to check their registration, and providing a hotline would go a long way and would probably be more effective.
Instead, they are enlisting Civitech, which the Party has used. Their data is not very good. It targets supposedly "moved" voters or something. I used it in my neighborhood and well...It identified a house as having 10 unregistered voters. Problem is: I know the house. Maybe at one time the home was a rental and people moved away. The former renters are long gone, so mailing them a form won't do any good. (That's because their mail bounced or they have not responded to letters sent by the county)
In Paxton's petition, he is accusing Bexar County of noncompetitive bidding. (Which unfortunately, is true) There is another issue of possibly costing $7/voter. It sounds benign, but quotas and "buying" voters are illegal. I would need to look at the filing. Did Paxton deduce this? Or did Civitech outright state new voters would cost $7 each. It does cost to hire services, so I think a court may give this part a pass. But Civitech should have known better than to state something like this...
According to the County, CGS will mail out 210,000 applications in
hopes of getting 75,000 new registrants, resulting in a 3-4% upswing in votes cast in
the county.
25. The CEO of CGS, Jeremy Smith, (Smith) told the Bexar County
Commissioners Court that CGS would register these voters at an estimated cost of
about $7 per voter
The injunction may be stopped by a local judge, but it will be appealed to the all GOP state supreme court.
This could have been done so much better. Yes, it would have been more expensive to mail a letter to every residence.
It's also telling that our most progressive member on commissioners court abstained.
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