If you are registered to vote in your state, please be sure to check your current voter registration status at the secretary of state’s site for your state. I just checked mine in CA and it is not finding me, even though I received a ballot and voted in the primary earlier this year. I've been registered under my current name, etc., for over 20 years. I've written to the indicated offices to find out what's goin on.
The same thing happened to me in San Francisco because I put in the last dour digits of mu SSN, but I didn’t put in my drivers license number. I also voted in the primary. Once I put both numbers in, I got my voters registration confirmation. You are probably still in the system, but it is requiring more info to find you. But, yes! Check to make sure you are still registered because electronic ballots have just gone out. Mail in ballots are probably on their way soon!!
I put in both my CA drivers license number and the last four digits of my SSN, as requested. Tried 4 different times, checking the numbers I typed carefully. This was at https://voterstatus.sos.ca.gov/ All four times it came up as "We may need more information to find your record" and gave me addresses to write to. When I checked my spouse's info, it came up right away.
That’s really weird. If you have a couple of hours to waste, is it worth it to go in person to the county clerk’s office, or wherever the voter reg is handled? What possible other information could they need other than those numbers? Did you change email addresses since the primary? Or jobs? The amount of surveillance data they have to match is probably more than we know. I am sorry that the voter system is glitching, and I hope you get it worked out so you can vote🤞
I don’t understand why the fierce response is “We’ll try for April instead!” Suing on first amendment grounds or having the event anyway and daring them to go all Erdogan and break it up seem like the next move…
Right. I’m in no position to advise them, but letting a governmental body get away with a possible 1st Amendment violation seems likely to encourage the behavior. At least put them on the record as to their pretext for denial and force them to defend it.
My daughter went to a great Parkour gym in Southlake. They accepted her for who she was. We now live in Washington. This is just one more thing from the ignorant pricks in Texas.
Just for context, I wouldn’t call Southlake “just outside the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex”—which may imply it’s a small town with old-fashioned sensibilities. Southlake is an affluent city squarely within the very populous metropolitan area of DFW (their high school football team plays in an almost $20MM 11,000 seat stadium).
Not that this is acceptable in any town, but it’s shocking (yet, at the same time, not surprising) it’s happening there.
Once again, a city council in Texas has denied a permit for an LGBTQ+ gathering intended simply to celebrate and come together—without, apparently, providing a clear explanation for the decision.
If these officials believe denying a permit will make the LGBTQ+ community disappear, they have badly misunderstood the people they are dealing with. This community is not going anywhere. If anything, actions like this can strengthen the determination to demand transparency, challenge discrimination, and hold elected officials accountable for their decisions.
City councils should remember something very important: LGBTQ+ people are members of their communities, they have families and allies, and they vote. They deserve the same respect, rights, and freedom to gather and celebrate as everyone else.
You cannot silence a community simply by denying it a permit. You only give that community another reason to stand up and be heard.
Given the pervasive environment that exists in Texas, Pride Kel-So is demonstrating true courage. You don't have to be clairvoyant to see that their gathering is going to have a very vocal counter-demonstration by the christian nationalists and the other bigots. Defiance in the face of such odds reflects the same courage shown by the Warsaw uprising. I pray that there is not a similar end. Any of us who have the where with all to be in the area during this event, should make every effort to attend and to show true solidarity.
This is really terrible. I’m so proud of the organizers for staying loud, pushing back and planning other LGBTQ+ events.
If you are registered to vote in your state, please be sure to check your current voter registration status at the secretary of state’s site for your state. I just checked mine in CA and it is not finding me, even though I received a ballot and voted in the primary earlier this year. I've been registered under my current name, etc., for over 20 years. I've written to the indicated offices to find out what's goin on.
The same thing happened to me in San Francisco because I put in the last dour digits of mu SSN, but I didn’t put in my drivers license number. I also voted in the primary. Once I put both numbers in, I got my voters registration confirmation. You are probably still in the system, but it is requiring more info to find you. But, yes! Check to make sure you are still registered because electronic ballots have just gone out. Mail in ballots are probably on their way soon!!
I put in both my CA drivers license number and the last four digits of my SSN, as requested. Tried 4 different times, checking the numbers I typed carefully. This was at https://voterstatus.sos.ca.gov/ All four times it came up as "We may need more information to find your record" and gave me addresses to write to. When I checked my spouse's info, it came up right away.
That’s really weird. If you have a couple of hours to waste, is it worth it to go in person to the county clerk’s office, or wherever the voter reg is handled? What possible other information could they need other than those numbers? Did you change email addresses since the primary? Or jobs? The amount of surveillance data they have to match is probably more than we know. I am sorry that the voter system is glitching, and I hope you get it worked out so you can vote🤞
"The amount of surveillance data they have to match is probably more than we know."
For sure.
Anyone whose paper trail includes a change of gender is findable.
I've been waiting for something like this to happen. Looks like they may finally be catching up.
I will contact Transgender Law Center to see if they know anything.
I don’t understand why the fierce response is “We’ll try for April instead!” Suing on first amendment grounds or having the event anyway and daring them to go all Erdogan and break it up seem like the next move…
Right. I’m in no position to advise them, but letting a governmental body get away with a possible 1st Amendment violation seems likely to encourage the behavior. At least put them on the record as to their pretext for denial and force them to defend it.
My daughter went to a great Parkour gym in Southlake. They accepted her for who she was. We now live in Washington. This is just one more thing from the ignorant pricks in Texas.
Just for context, I wouldn’t call Southlake “just outside the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex”—which may imply it’s a small town with old-fashioned sensibilities. Southlake is an affluent city squarely within the very populous metropolitan area of DFW (their high school football team plays in an almost $20MM 11,000 seat stadium).
Not that this is acceptable in any town, but it’s shocking (yet, at the same time, not surprising) it’s happening there.
Once again, a city council in Texas has denied a permit for an LGBTQ+ gathering intended simply to celebrate and come together—without, apparently, providing a clear explanation for the decision.
If these officials believe denying a permit will make the LGBTQ+ community disappear, they have badly misunderstood the people they are dealing with. This community is not going anywhere. If anything, actions like this can strengthen the determination to demand transparency, challenge discrimination, and hold elected officials accountable for their decisions.
City councils should remember something very important: LGBTQ+ people are members of their communities, they have families and allies, and they vote. They deserve the same respect, rights, and freedom to gather and celebrate as everyone else.
You cannot silence a community simply by denying it a permit. You only give that community another reason to stand up and be heard.
“We’re Not Going Away” <-- More power to them!
Thank you for the reporting, Baum.
It would be nice if they reconsidered the “Everything’s bigger in Texas!“ trope, particularly when it comes to their bigotry and LGBT+phobia.
It would also be nice if pigs could fly. Anyone wanna bet which happens first?
Given the pervasive environment that exists in Texas, Pride Kel-So is demonstrating true courage. You don't have to be clairvoyant to see that their gathering is going to have a very vocal counter-demonstration by the christian nationalists and the other bigots. Defiance in the face of such odds reflects the same courage shown by the Warsaw uprising. I pray that there is not a similar end. Any of us who have the where with all to be in the area during this event, should make every effort to attend and to show true solidarity.
Go Pride Kel-So!
Throw this free speech stuff right back at the haters or cowards on the town council of Southlake, Texas.
And, if they don't budge, sue their lily yeller butts.