Bexar County tends to lean Democratic, which is becoming a very alarming problem for the Republican Party in Texas. Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing Bexar County over a new voter outreach program in hopes of completely halting the plan. The voter outreach initiative that Bexar County wants to enact would send out voter registration materials to eligible but unregistered Bexar County residents in an effort to boost voter registration numbers.
Paxton’s reasoning for wanting to get rid of this plan is that this program
allegedly sends out voter registration materials to potentially ineligible voters, causing them to commit a crime by registering to vote. The private contractor that will be responsible for sending out these materials, has outlined that they use statistics from governmental departments to ensure they do exactly the opposite of what Paxton is alleging. Paxton knows that the county’s intentions are not to register ineligible voters, but to get more Bexar County residents registered, and that is the scary part for him. In 2020, the majority of Bexar County precincts voted for President Biden.
Paxton is not afraid to perpetuate the non-issue of non-citizens voting, even more if it
means that more voter suppression will take place and less votes will go to the Democratic Party.
The percentage at which non-citizens vote is little to nothing, and should not be given merit
when looking to completely shut down a local governmental plan to aid and empower the voice of the people of Bexar County. The Republican Party likes to fearmonger and focus on the 1% of
isolated incidents as a go ahead to cause destruction to important social programs that are constructed to purely and unbiasedly aid the people of this country.
Without harmless initiatives like this, people’s voices are harder to hear. How can someone be so decidedly against a program such as this, that is outlined to only aid the population of 1,495,295 Bexar County residents get registered to vote while not even garnishing support for either presidential candidate? Well, it is easy when he does not actually care about the democratic process, but more so that his favored candidate’s odds look better in the long run, even if it means sinking the people lower and lower.
