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BG Reads Weekend Edition (11.3.2024)
BG Reads Weekend Edition (11.3.2024)
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WEEKEND NEWS
Dan Patrick debunks claims about Texas voting machines switching votes (Texas Tribune)
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick publicly debunked claims that voting machines in the state are changing the selections voters make.
Republican National Committee Co-Chair Lara Trump, whose father-in-law is GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, posted on social media that Texas had looked into claims about voting machines in Tarrant County switching voters' selections and the "error has been corrected with the voting machines."
But Patrick, who is also a Republican, quickly corrected the national party leader on social media. The lieutenant governor said fewer than 10 people out of the nearly 7 million Texans who had already cast ballots across the state claimed that their selections were changed, but officials could not confirm a single instance of that happening.
"There were actually no errors to correct once we investigated those few cases," Patrick wrote on X… 🟪 (LINK TO FULL STORY)
The Elusive Voters Who Could Make or Break the Electionn (Wall Street Journal)
The Trump and Harris campaigns are racing to reach undecided voters in the final weekend of the presidential election. But their main focus isn’t the voters undecided on which candidate to back. Instead, they are doing more to target those who are undecided on whether to vote at all.
Most occasional voters—those who sometimes cast ballots and sometimes skip elections—lean toward one candidate or the other, and the campaigns see them as a vital source of untapped support. They account for more than one-quarter of the voter pool, strategists say, though estimates vary. By contrast, Wall Street Journal polling finds that only 3% of registered voters are truly undecided on a choice of candidate.
“I feel very strongly that there’s a much smaller number of undecided voters than there are people deciding whether to vote,” said Bill McInturff, a veteran Republican pollster who has worked with GOP groups this year. Which GOP- and Democratic-leaning groups turn out most will affect the election outcome more than will the voters “who are still agonizing over Trump or Harris,” he said.
That is why MAGA Inc., the main super PAC supporting Donald Trump, in early October started targeting ads on streaming-TV services to nearly 3.5 million battleground-state voters who it believes tilt toward the former president but have spotty voting records. That is on top of a longer-term program of putting ads in front of about 4 million voters who are registered or likely Republicans but have skipped the last three presidential elections.
Priorities USA, a leading Democratic super PAC, is trying to increase the social pressure on infrequent voters who lean toward Kamala Harris, about 11% of all voters in its estimation, in an attempt to get them to commit to participating this year. “Your voting history is public…so your friends, family and the barista you like could know whether you show up to the polls—or not,” a narrator says in one of its ads, which features a young woman placing her coffee order. It cautions: “Avoid the embarrassment.”… 🟪 (LINK TO FULL STORY)
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