EVERYTHING IS BIGGER AND HARDER TO INSTITUTE THROUGH DEMOCRATIC PROCESSES IN TEXAS

The Democratic Party in Texas is suing two of the state's public officials in an effort to rollback draconian voting "rights" laws that, if enforced, would result in stupid, excessive penalties for doing very normal things.

Parts of the law criminalize such dastardly deeds as:

carrying someone else's filled out ballot to a mailbox;

WHAM!

posessing someone else's blank ballot;

SOCKO!

assisting someone with an absentee ballot, if they haven't asked for help;

BLAMSKI!

also, the New York Times reports:

One plaintiff, Gloria Meeks, a 69-year-old Fort Worth woman who said she was being investigated for helping elderly and disabled voters cast ballots, provided a sworn statement saying two state investigators “peeped into my bathroom window not once but twice while I was in my bathroom drying off from my bath.”

The laws, enacted in 2003, were designed to prevent and punish fraudulent voting. To be absolutely fair though, it is likely that Attorney General Greg Abbott and Secretary of State Roger Williams, the targets of the suit, think that non-white voters are fraudulent.

Texas is going to be a place to watch in the coming months, due to the upstart candidacy of Kinky Friedman, a cigar smoking, Jewish cowboy whose campaign slogan is "Why the hell not?" and who just might be the next governor.