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The Texas Democratic Party started its vote by mail program in 2014 in part to combat the Texas voter id law and in part to erase the large advantage that the Texas GOP has on voice by mail. In my county, the GOP usually had a 10 to 1 advantage in vote by mail. In 2010, it cost my county $13,000 to mail 16,000 vote by mail applications out and we got ten times the number of vote by mail ballots back due to this. The TDP mailed about 115,000 vote by mail applications in 2014
The TDP got the cost of the program down and this cycle my county spent $6,000 and the TDP and others raised money to pay for calls in counties where there is no local Democratic Party or the county party is too poor to pay for these mailings. Approximately 375,000 applications were mailed for the primary process.
Right now in my county, we have more democratic primary vote by mail ballots in than the republicans.
Texas will turn blue but it is going to take some hard work.
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