Vote-by-mail spurred controversy, fraud charges and maybe the Capitol riot -- now it may become

[yellowdogintexas]

29. In even years, Democrats receive ballot requests from the Texas Democratic Party in January

which we can return at any time during the year should we decide to use it.

Of course, only over 65, disabled and prior mail in voters receive them. Since Texans do not have party choice on our registration we have to take pot luck on voters, but we usually figure out who the Republicans are by their primary voting history and they will not get ballot applications in the future.

After TDP started doing this, our voting numbers improved. When our county commissioners voted to allow voters to go to any precinct in the county on election day to vote regardless of where they live, the percentages increased again. Having 300+ voting locations on Election Day that are equitally scattered across the county is great! There are four locations within 10 minutes from our house. It is a big help to the Election Judges too.

We still have early voting (50 locations) and our elections office had a great plan already in place for our one drop off location when folks started dropping off their absentee ballots rather than mail them.

All of the high population counties are now using this format as well as about half of the remaining counties. Harris (Houston) had 700 in person voting locations for Election Day. Voters love it because they do not have to rush to get home to vote.