Wednesday, October 7, 2020

Washington Post cartoon contrasts rural-urban voting opportunities in Texas

 Here it is:


This cartoon focuses--not inappropriately--on relative population size to suggest it'll be easier for rural folks to vote in Texas than it will be for urban folks.  What this overlooks is another important aspect of what is happening in Texas.  Limiting each county to one ballot drop-off location is also bad for rural voters who live in counties that cover more land area (what I sometimes call "material distance").  That includes many in West Texas, as is visible from this map. And voters there are also less likely than metropolitan voters to have access to public transportation to get to that single drop-off location.

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