Here’s the whole section you’re selectively quoting

How does party affiliation work in Texas? In Texas, there are several main ways for a voter to affiliate with a party: by being accepted to vote in a party’s primary election, by taking the required oath at a party precinct convention, or by taking a party oath of affiliation generally (§§162.003, 162.006, 162.007). A voter’s affiliation with a party automatically expires at the end of each calendar year, which is December 31. (§162.010). A voter who has affiliated themselves with a party is ineligible to participate in the party affairs of another party during the same calendar year. (§§162.012, 162.013)

Emphasis added to show that there is no persistent, year-over-year affiliation (I emphasize this word because there is no party registration in Texas)

And the only way you can vote in a primary is to register with them

I have never registered with a party. There is no field for party affiliation in the online voter registration form

https://vrapp.sos.state.tx.us/index.asp

And the registration certificate doesn’t include a party affiliation

https://www.votetexas.gov/register-to-vote/voter-registration-certificate.html

And a Non-potato quality picture

https://disabilityrightstx.org/en/handout/understanding-your-texas-voter-registration-certificate/

you can do it on the spot if you want, but once you do it, that’s it

Every primary election I’ve participated in the official who checks you in just asked which primary you want to vote in. And since voter registration in Texas does not track party affiliation you’re going to have a rough time convincing me this counts as registering with the party.

The spam you’re getting is simply because it’s public record whether you voted in any election, including which primary you voted in. But it’s not the same as other states recording your party affiliation as part of your voter registration, which Texas flat out does not do.

Texas doesn’t have party affiliation on your voter registration and we have open primaries.

https://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/laws/advisory2020-05.shtml

Third parties in the US will never be a reality without election reform. That in turn will have to be preceded by high voter turnout to push state legislatures more progressive.

Can someone eggsplain this?

Sorry.

“Your device has been rooted and therefore cannot be supported.”

Lemmy doesn’t have a feature to follow users, last I checked.

My wife’s aunt died from Cirrhosis of the liver and “so much blood” is exactly what my wife said she saw.

I still use “baby steps onto …” all the time. And “is this some radical new …?” too, but not nearly as much.

Yeah Leo was the protagonist here.

the American GOP is seemingly Zionist and antisemitic at the same time

They’re Evangelic pro-Rapture Zionists, not pro-Jewish security Zionists.

That many SJ’s seems too deliberate! It must be deeper than that! #Hooters

Is LMFHSJSJSJD a thing? Laughing my ducking hooters …

Google seems to have my back on this one.

I feel like you should have posted an article link, or some other supporting evidence.

PS - I have no idea who this is or who you are, my response is not driven by any bias for or against either of you.

The unsubscribe and resubscribe trick hadn’t worked for me at that time

Interesting. It didn’t always work the first time (which could mean unsub/sub/refresh like 10 times in a row), but coming back every few hours to try again I don’t think it ever took more than a day to get it resolved for me.

There are no moderator features in Liftoff.

https://lemmy.world/comment/1046271
https://github.com/liftoff-app/liftoff/issues/366

Open a channel to the Crystaline Entity.

Personal Record is correct. Gains bro.

He wanted an excuse to go after Saddam Hussein, who had reportedly put together and assassination attempt on Bush Sr during a trip to Kuwait. Bush Jr was also surrounded by the PNAC crowd, who had published (before getting into the white house) goals to have a permanent US military presence in theiddle east to secure oil interests, and that they would likely need some catalyzing event to garner public support in the US.

😂 I mean I think I can infer two things from this post. It has a pretty strongly positive score lending me to believe tens of other people find it irritating too. Basically everyone who has actually responded to me have never used any apps in landscape mode on a tablet (at least not any that isn’t fundamentally a video player that forces landscape) and are borderline apoplectic to hear that other people who actually like like fit-to-width display options in applications that display primarily text.

I will say this, at least Liftoff actually let’s me scroll the content from those dead spaces on the side. There was one app where even that didn’t work.

I’d be fine with a multi-column UI. Like maybe a collapsible feed view, with the post/comment filling the screen when the feed view is collapsed. I understand the usefulness of negative space. But Liftoff looks like the developer just forgot that tablets exist and set an arbitrary limit that is reasonable on phones. Holding my phone in front of my tablet with both in landscape, it’s maybe a half centimeter wider on either side on the tablet vs the phone.