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DHS previews an 'unprecedented fraud crackdown'; a Texas county's real move: cutting polling sites.

“They keep the word 'fraud' in the headline and the polling place off the map — that's the whole scam right there. You don't need to steal an election if you can just make it a longer walk. Watch which counties get 'efficient' right before a vote, that's the tell.”
Sal
“This has nothing to do with access — it's about modernizing infrastructure and consolidating underused precincts, which happens to reduce the total number of locations, sure, but that's a resource allocation decision, not a — I mean, okay, fewer locations is fewer locations, but the fraud crackdown is a completely separate initiative.”
Chip

The receipts

Plan to cut number of polling sites in a major Texas county Officials are closing polling sites before the midterms
ABC Newsmainstream§

Plans in one of Texas’ largest counties to use dozens fewer polling location than previous years is drawing protests from Democrats who say the reductions could create confusion in the November midterm elections

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