The state and the political parties need to be held accountable for failing to align voting centers with demand.
Voting is a democracy’s best expression of the power of the people to choose the elected officials who will represent them. A trip to the polls shouldn’t make a trip to the Department of Public Safety to renew a driver’s license seem like a breeze.
On Super Tuesday, thousands of voters endured brutally long lines at polling places in Texas’ largest cities. In Houston, ground zero for Election Day dysfunction, the last primary vote in the state was cast at 1:30 a.m. Wednesday by a man who stayed in line more than six hours to exercise his voting rights. Hervis Rogers was late for his second job on an overnight shift, but was determined not to be deterred. “The way it was set up, it was like it was set up for me to walk away,’’ he told reporters. “But I said I am not going to do that.”
