Voting practices in Texas State Legislature

[twist871]

Now go out,and VOTE,you stupid deepshits...

[KLG701]

Democracy is so much fun ! You can vote, as much as you want !

[iOxYGeN90]

Lol 

[drandersw]

If they don't have time to press the button themselves then how do they have time to read the bills?

[Kenzofeis]

Strange sport, is it in the Olympics? Who won?

[199misko0]

And then they say: "USA most demokratical county" Kako patetično!

[TheLightBearer1969]

So much for democracy. This is almost as disgraceful as the corruption found in Third World countries. What's the point of voting for truants?

[sirvidia]

in britain you have to physically walk through one or another door and counted through a turnstile so you can't vote twice

[ixonixas]

LMAO xDDD 

[peterdarinklein]

@DCooper731 - I disagree with your reasoning as to why they couldn't possibly be stealing other member votes. It's like a mafia. What would happen to the Rat if they caused a stink? Constant examples of psychopathic behavior forces me to judge this display as criminal group think. And, I love how they get frantic while executing their "fellow Congressman's" wishes.

Does anyone here still believe that these crooks seek office because of the love in their heart?

[Shmooove]

The tickertape on the bottom at 3:06 : "Mutants Opened Fire On A Convoy Carrying US and Pakistani Military Officials"

[LunaticQuutamo]

@Shmooove haha, but if you look twice you see militants.

[Zimarooski]

whoa whoa whoa SERIOUSLY? 

[maryandthemoon]

BULLSH*T

[themainproblem]

This requires a mass firing.  Criminals in action.

[Seele1]

Yay! Texas!

[bnmiler]

wtf are we paying taxes for???? i have to work my tail off and god forbid i'm 10 minutes late!!! wtf????

[elibethobbit]

Christ. That's fricking ridiculous.

[MittWaffen]

Corruption for their own agendas, if one state does it; think about how many more..if not all.

Hell, I question my own country and how they vote if this is America....

[morkedager]

Welcome to the shithole known as America.

[seamonkeytrainer]

This is why I don't vote. It makes me sick that our country's laws are determined by the person with the fastest fingers. Ignorant pricks!!!

[permian11]

@seamonkeytrainer and you not voting sure is making a difference. way to be!

[Veishan]

Reason number #922,495 why I'm glad I don't live in Texas!

[InnerRise]

Oh my god is this real?!

[GoatseObama]

Texas the golden standard

[derubermax]

Inexplicably the entire news staff disappeared and were replaced the next day.

[johnnycashak]

It's like a voting rodeo. Yeeehaaw!!

[Shiztacular09]

Of course they're not "supposed" to do it.

But it looks to me they were actually voting the way the missing person would have anyway.

I love how we all act so appalled by this but I'm sure many of us have had people mark us present in lectures, meetings etc.

[onebadgungan]

@Shiztacular09 And you know this how?

[MeowTV2]

nice :)

[Kcorp2003]

lmao. Only better technology can solve this problem.

[DCooper731]

They aren't voting randomly for these other people. Clearly they have told deskmates, or house members that sit near them what their vote is so they can input it for them.

If these politicians were really stealing votes from other State Legislature members then they would have been reported long, long ago by the members from whom they are stealing votes.

And as the woman said, they can't find any kind of legal ramifications to this so it's clearly a common practice.

[ryngoksu]

@DCooper731 Actually they are voting across party lines. The rules clearly state that they are not allowed to vote for any member. This is called ghost voting. I do not see this as one person voting for another. I see it as one person silencing the voices of another district. The problem is not individual but structural considering the rules state that anyone caught casting a vote for another person shall be punished by the very body that is allowing them to vote for others.

[DCooper731]

@ryngoksu Voting across party lines is irrelevant here if you read what I said all the way through. If votes were actually being STOLEN, this would have been reported long ago.

Clearly these people are telling their fellow Congressmen to vote for them, in the manner in which they WOULD HAVE VOTED had they been there.

It's foolish to assume that this isn't the case because no congressman in their right mind would knowingly allow someone to steal a vote from them, career suicide.

[heartattackstroke]

@DCooper731 In my country, Canada, where MPs have to sometimes travel 3000 miles in order to sit down in The House, we could not get fair government any other way. Canada is just to big to expect a Memeber of The House [called an MP] to be everywhere at once. Texas is pretty big too. I bet Texas' House Members have to make choices too. Sometimes a Member has to go be near his or her constituants. I see nothing wrong with this. As long as the proxy vote is honest.

[olile711]

#LOL



[CreativeRehashi]

Go Texas.

[solidblood]

omg... this is really frightening 

[sandor139]

I wonder if those people are Reptile inside?

[jonisaok]

@sandor139 I wonder if your head is empty inside.

[SecularAmerican]

holy shit! jail time for everyone! get a ballsy sheriff and district attorney to go down there and literally CLEAN HOUSE. They'd be heroes!

[Stiverton]

Your Democracy at work.

[spacerumsfeld]

@Stiverton The United States isn't a democracy...it's a republic. What are you on about?

[NEXPAR]

At 2:50 this broad gets on my nerves. Go work for WalMart, they will make sure you get all your breaks.

[Shiztacular09]

@NEXPAR Its laughable really. She acts as if she didn't know what she was getting into when she ran for a fukkn elected position. Cry me a river