Reply #18: Here's the problem with that

[MajorChode]

Your last sentence is the biggest hurdle, especially when you consider that once you get outside the major metropolitan areas in Texas, most people get their "information" from talk radio, the freepersphere, and those moronic chain emails that those dipshits pass back and forth. Occasionally I have to drive through those areas, and I really don't want to end up like Cameron Todd Willingham. Now maybe if they had a little maze you have to go through in order to get their ballot, or perhaps a little puzzle with pegs and holes, or just something to weed out those who are 2 standard deviations or more on the left side of the bell curve, you might have something. But so long as local churches can teach anencephalic fucksticks to color in the arrow on the "vote straight line Republican" line, I'm not really comfortable with the system the way it is. I've met some of the sheriffs and constables in rural areas of Texas, and they are so fucking stupid it's downright scary. If you are any sort of a minority or they find out you are politically to the left of the John Birch Society, you'd better make damn sure they never accuse you of any sort of crime.