{"id":214,"date":"2022-11-08T20:44:15","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T20:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/texas\/press-releases\/texans-turn-out-to-vote-despite-confusion-at-the-polls\/"},"modified":"2022-11-08T20:44:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T20:44:15","slug":"texans-turn-out-to-vote-despite-confusion-at-the-polls","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/texas\/press\/texans-turn-out-to-vote-despite-confusion-at-the-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Texans Turn Out to Vote, Despite Confusion at the Polls"},"template":"","class_list":["post-214","press","type-press","status-publish","hentry","press_type-press-release"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"Common Cause Texas\u2019 Election Protection Program helped thousands of Texas voters overcome obstacles on Election Day","featured_image":"","press_type":153,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":7803}"],"related_issues":[117,406],"related_work":false,"location":52},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><i>Common Cause Texas\u2019 Election Protection Program helped thousands of Texas voters overcome obstacles on Election Day<\/i><\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<b>AUSTIN, TX<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 After two counties had to extend polling site hours due to systemic problems throughout the day, polls will soon be closing in Texas. As always, Common Cause Texas and Election Protection Coalition partners have been monitoring problems, assisting voters, and identifying systemic issues that need to be addressed by state leaders.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Common Cause Texas deployed hundreds of our nonpartisan volunteers throughout the state to assist voters in making their voices heard on Election Day, with nearly 3,000 Texans making calls to the 866-OUR-VOTE hotline. The top issues our Election Protection program addressed throughout the voting period were:\u00a0<\/span>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Polling sites opening late or not being fully operational throughout Election Day in Harris and Bell Counties, necessitating an extension of polling site hours<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Widespread technology issues<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Election workers wearing partisan attire intended to intimidate and dissuade voters<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Poll watchers intending to intimidate voters by taking notes behind the check-in station as voters presented their identification<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Intimidation and suppression tactics in places like Dallas, Galveston, and Montgomery<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Statement from Katya Ehresman, Voting Rights Program Manager for Common Cause Texas:\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe want to emphasize that all incidents of problems we identified on Election Day were rectified, election officials were responsive, and our nonpartisan Election Protection program\u2019s extensive, on-the-ground operation was essential to documenting and addressing these issues.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What we saw being reported most frequently today was confusion from voters about their eligibility, where to vote, when to vote, or how to navigate changes to the vote-by-mail process.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To be clear, confusion is a product of living in a state that refuses to invest time and money into robust public education on our election process. It is absolutely intentional to leave voters on their own to navigate this state\u2019s convoluted and unnecessarily challenging voting rules.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We also saw serious issues, like election workers and poll watchers engaging in aggressive intimidation tactics that were clearly rooted in the Big Lie misinformation surrounding our election.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the spite of these challenges, we saw high levels of persistence and voter enthusiasm flourish across the state. If official reports show strong voter turnout, it is a credit to our Election Protection efforts and Texans\u2019 dedication to our democracy, despite partisan state leaders' attempts to undermine it.\u201d<\/span>"}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Texans Turn Out to Vote, Despite Confusion at the Polls - Common Cause Texas<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/texas\/press-releases\/texans-turn-out-to-vote-despite-confusion-at-the-polls\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Texans Turn Out to Vote, Despite Confusion at the Polls\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/texas\/press\/texans-turn-out-to-vote-despite-confusion-at-the-polls\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Common Cause Texas\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/texas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/common-cause-share-image.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/texas\/press-releases\/texans-turn-out-to-vote-despite-confusion-at-the-polls\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/texas\/press-releases\/texans-turn-out-to-vote-despite-confusion-at-the-polls\/\",\"name\":\"Texans Turn Out to Vote, Despite Confusion at the Polls - 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