Liberty In Peril

                                                                                              formerly,

                                                                                       The Llano Ledger

Voting Rights 3                                              4-1-16  ©2016 All Rights Reserved

The President juxtaposed to the Governor of Texas is indeed a gift that keeps on giving.  Readers will recall a recent PolitiFact Texas truth test.  The President at South By Southwest made the statement:  "The folks who are currently governing the good state of Texas aren't interested in having more people participate."  Indeed, they aren't.  In response, the Governor remarked voter fraud was "rampant."  PolitiFact ruled this assertion false.  "Pants on fire!"  Indeed, there is virtually none.

The Governor also remarked: "To the contrary of the president's comment, the ... fact is, despite our voter registration laws, we had the highest level of turnout than ever before in the primary that occurred just a few weeks before he made that comment."

PolitiFact found:

Our ruling
Abbott said Texas "had the highest level of turnout than ever before in the primary" in 2016.

We don't know if Abbott was focusing on raw counts of primary voters or if he was fixed on the 19 percent share of registered voters participating in the Republican primary.

By both of these metrics, the 2016 turnout set Texas records.

However, percentage turnout across both primaries was previously higher in several years, including 2008, 1988, and 1972.  This Governor's statement also failed to acknowledge that Texas remains among the nation's lowest-turnout states.

On balance, we rate this claim Half True.

They're certainly being generous, kindly to the son of a bitch prevaricator in Austin.  Know what it truly is?  In plain language?  Disingenuous, self-serving bullshit on the part of the Governor.  The PolitiFact Texas material above also does not address how much higher voter turnout could and/or might have been had minorities, the elderly, and others not been deliberately disenfranchised by Republican national socialists determined to crush votes for anyone other than the GOP.  Voter ID.  Indeed, a Grand Old Party desperately out of control.  Having succumbed to national socialism.

Tim Chorney, Publisher
Liberty In Peril

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