Texas Progressives give an election day peek under the hood

Now that the act of voting is done, and you can see how well I did on my final pre-Election Day prognostications on Monday, while we wait for election season final playout, let's dive in, with plenty of election-related punditry but lots of other items as well, from regional items through state and national to global. Actually, we're going to splitoff non-election stuff to wait until later this week.

Dallas

Schutze weighs in on elected Black leaders giving former chief U. Renee Hall a pass on the protests handling.

Texas politics

Young Texans went to any length to get their votes counted. Harris County helped with a day of 24-hour early voting in person. The increase in turnout and in blueish area registered voters — did it help?

Steve Salyer had his faith in humanity restored by working at a drive-through voting location. 

Peter Holley meets a few of the people who voted after midnight in Harris County. 

John Coby calls out the Harris County GOP for hosting a super-spreader event.

Unable to win with the state Supremes, Steve Hotze and his fellow Rethuglicans tried federal court on trying to throw out drive-through ballots in Harris County. (They failed and we presume will fail at the appellate level.)

Related to all of this, Off the Kuff summarized the record breaking early voting in Harris County.

Beyond Harris County Rethuglicans' vote suppression efforts? A heaping helping of paranoia that election judges would spike their coffee with laxatives. No, really.