I just don't get it

Texas is fighting apathy, vicious gerrymandering, and voter suppression. I was a poll watcher and overheard a poll worker tell a new-to-Texas voter that "she was in for a treat" as he was checking her in. My mouth nearly fell open — this state is severely unfriendly to anyone who doesn't have perfect ID's, or something doesn't match. This state has so many restrictions in place — for example, there's NO reason we can't do same day voter registration but no, Texas made its deadline 30 days before. Texas could do online voter registration but NO — it has to be mailed, or handed in. There's no reason we can't have early voting through election day but no — Texas cuts it off the Friday before, so there's only 1 weekend to vote. Georgia gets 3 weeks of early voting — we get 12 days. Main-in ballots? Don't be silly — those are only for old people, disabled people (and by golly you have to prove that), military out-of-state, and "normal" people BUT ONLY ONCE A YEAR if you're out of state. Houston, during Covid and the 2020 election, mailed everyone in the county applications for mail-in ballots — in the next legislative session, Texas outlawed that, by saying people had to request them. It goes on and on.

Texas is more purple than people realize, but holy shit the cards are stacked against us.