.rossramsey: 'If state lawmakers wanted everybody to vote, they’d make it easy for everybody to vote.'
. Two more allow it only during early voting, and one more — Virginia — will have a new same-day registration law in force later this year.
Voting by mail was a particular concern of Texas lawmakers during last year’s legislative sessions. In 2020, Harris County officials Lawmakers knocked down other voter-friendly ideas from earlier elections, like 24/7 voting that let people vote around the clock during the state’s early voting period, and drive-thru voting that made casting a ballot as easy as picking up a burger and a shake.stunk: 82.5% of the state’s registered voters did not show up for either the Democratic or Republican primary. You can’t blame complex and punitive voting laws for the evident apathy in those numbers. But the laws don’t help.
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