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You are so dangerous.</p> <ul class="actions clearfix"> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150715115311/https://www.facebook.com/texastribune/posts/10153214843815837"><span>+</span> Reply</a></li> </ul> </div> <div style="clear: both;"></div> </li> <li> <div class="comment_author_image"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150715115311/http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003886986414"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150715115311im_/http://graph.facebook.com/100003886986414/picture?type=square"/> </a> </div> <div class="comment_body"> <div class="comment_time"> May 12 @ 10:51 a.m. </div> <p class="byline"> <span class="author"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150715115311/http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003886986414">Mark Denman</a> </span> via <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150715115311/https://www.facebook.com/texastribune/posts/10153214843815837">Texas Tribune on Facebook</a> </p> <p class="comment">At my college we get booted out if we are found to sign the attendance sheet for someone else.<br/>How do they possibly have oversight on this at all? There can't possibly be a way to enforce or find the violation of the rules to protect against 'ghost voting.'</p> <ul class="actions clearfix"> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150715115311/https://www.facebook.com/texastribune/posts/10153214843815837"><span>+</span> Reply</a></li> </ul> </div> <div style="clear: both;"></div> </li> <li> <div class="comment_author_image"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150715115311/http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1364755199"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150715115311im_/http://graph.facebook.com/1364755199/picture?type=square"/> </a> </div> <div class="comment_body"> <div class="comment_time"> May 12 @ 11:02 a.m. </div> <p class="byline"> <span class="author"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150715115311/http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1364755199">Pat Wente</a> </span> via <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150715115311/https://www.facebook.com/texastribune/posts/10153214843815837">Texas Tribune on Facebook</a> </p> <p class="comment">I can't bear to watch this train wreck.</p> <ul class="actions clearfix"> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150715115311/https://www.facebook.com/texastribune/posts/10153214843815837"><span>+</span> Reply</a></li> </ul> </div> <div style="clear: both;"></div> </li> <li> <div class="comment_author_image"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150715115311/http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000198812804"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150715115311im_/http://graph.facebook.com/100000198812804/picture?type=square"/> </a> </div> <div class="comment_body"> <div class="comment_time"> May 12 @ 2:46 p.m. </div> <p class="byline"> <span class="author"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150715115311/http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000198812804">Adam Lane</a> </span> via <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150715115311/https://www.facebook.com/texastribune/posts/10153214843815837">Texas Tribune on Facebook</a> </p> <p class="comment">Keeping the liberal agenda away another few years I trust</p> <ul class="actions clearfix"> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150715115311/https://www.facebook.com/texastribune/posts/10153214843815837"><span>+</span> Reply</a></li> </ul> </div> <div style="clear: both;"></div> </li> <li> <div class="comment_author_image"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150715115311/http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1771015458"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150715115311im_/http://graph.facebook.com/1771015458/picture?type=square"/> </a> </div> <div class="comment_body"> <div class="comment_time"> May 12 @ 2:53 p.m. </div> <p class="byline"> <span class="author"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150715115311/http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1771015458">Marty Jamieson</a> </span> via <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150715115311/https://www.facebook.com/texastribune/posts/10153214843815837">Texas Tribune on Facebook</a> </p> <p class="comment">Mr. chairman: is that illegal voting???<br/>I call for an internal ethics violation investigation....</p> <ul class="actions clearfix"> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150715115311/https://www.facebook.com/texastribune/posts/10153214843815837"><span>+</span> Reply</a></li> </ul> </div> <div style="clear: both;"></div> </li> <li> <div class="comment_author_image"> </div> <div class="comment_body"> <div class="comment_time"> May 12 @ 8:54 p.m. </div> <p class="byline"> <span class="author"> William Ardis </span> </p> <p class="comment">See they are just helping the others to vote correctly. That is why they needed voterID, because people wouldn't vote the way they wanted. Conservatives really don't like us peons voting because we can't be trusted to do the right thing (as an example see Denton and fracking, conservatives are still having to clean that one up so voters don't get uppity again and propose rules to protect themselves). </p> </div> <div style="clear: both;"></div> </li> <li> <div class="comment_author_image"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150715115311/http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1563520742"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150715115311im_/http://graph.facebook.com/1563520742/picture?type=square"/> </a> </div> <div class="comment_body"> <div class="comment_time"> May 13 @ 9:46 a.m. </div> <p class="byline"> <span class="author"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150715115311/http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1563520742">Ken Wing</a> </span> via <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150715115311/https://www.facebook.com/texastribune/posts/10153214843815837">Texas Tribune on Facebook</a> </p> <p class="comment">Unbelievable. .. what a shame!! They get paid to do a job, it cant b that hard to show up and do your job!!!</p> <ul class="actions clearfix"> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150715115311/https://www.facebook.com/texastribune/posts/10153214843815837"><span>+</span> Reply</a></li> </ul> </div> <div style="clear: both;"></div> </li> <li> <div class="comment_author_image"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150715115311/http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=828465430"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150715115311im_/http://graph.facebook.com/828465430/picture?type=square"/> </a> </div> <div class="comment_body"> <div class="comment_time"> May 13 @ 12:49 p.m. </div> <p class="byline"> <span class="author"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150715115311/http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=828465430">Brian Rapp</a> </span> via <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150715115311/https://www.facebook.com/texastribune/posts/10153214843815837">Texas Tribune on Facebook</a> </p> <p class="comment">Does anyone film democratic state legislatures like this? Anyone have a video of Obama casting a vote against a law that would protect babies born as a result of a failed abortion? Always looking out for the little guy, right?</p> <ul class="actions clearfix"> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150715115311/https://www.facebook.com/texastribune/posts/10153214843815837"><span>+</span> Reply</a></li> </ul> </div> <div style="clear: both;"></div> </li> <li> <div class="comment_author_image"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150715115311/http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1803205877"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150715115311im_/http://graph.facebook.com/1803205877/picture?type=square"/> </a> </div> <div class="comment_body"> <div class="comment_time"> May 13 @ 2:52 p.m. </div> <p class="byline"> <span class="author"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150715115311/http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1803205877">Lloyd Sargent</a> </span> via <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150715115311/https://www.facebook.com/texastribune/posts/10153214843815837">Texas Tribune on Facebook</a> </p> <p class="comment">As they work hard trying to decide which group to discriminate against next...</p> <ul class="actions clearfix"> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150715115311/https://www.facebook.com/texastribune/posts/10153214843815837"><span>+</span> Reply</a></li> </ul> </div> <div style="clear: both;"></div> </li> <li> <div class="comment_author_image"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150715115311/http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003537500337"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150715115311im_/http://graph.facebook.com/100003537500337/picture?type=square"/> </a> </div> <div class="comment_body"> <div class="comment_time"> May 13 @ 5:39 p.m. </div> <p class="byline"> <span class="author"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150715115311/http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003537500337">Vickie Edmondson</a> </span> via <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150715115311/https://www.facebook.com/texastribune/posts/10153214843815837">Texas Tribune on Facebook</a> </p> <p 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