The "second one of these" what?
Did you do "the most minute minute of researching"?
Apparently not, since you added nothing.
My source is here;
Learn more about Texas's Partisan primaries, partisan voter registration statistics, current voter totals, political parties, and more from the Independent Voter Project.
independentvoterproject.org
In Texas, a voter’s affiliation with a party automatically expires at the end of each calendar year, which is December 31.
More info;
Texas is an open partisan primary state, which means it does not have to register voters by party affiliation. When voters go to the polls in the primary, they can freely choose between a Republican and a Democratic ballot.
ivn.us
Texas is an open partisan primary state, which means it does not have to register voters by party affiliation. When voters go to the polls in the primary, they can freely choose between a Republican and a Democratic ballot.
What many Texans don’t know is when they vote in a party’s primary, their party choice is recorded in their voter file.
In other words, while they may not register with a party, the state treats them as a registered Republican or a registered Democrat or an independent voter depending on how they vote in taxpayer-funded elections.
Further, research groups use this data — along with other datapoints like participation in local elections – to determine what voter registration in Texas really looks like.
With so much attention on the 2025 redistricting fight in Texas, the Independent Voter Project has received several inquiries into the registration numbers it has recorded on its popular state-by-state primary map.
This makes sense – voters want to know what an accurate reflection of the Texas electorate looks like in the midst of a contentious redistricting fight.
However, the thing that surprises many people is that current figures show Democrats outnumber Republicans in Texas. This may seem strange considering how much control Republicans have in the state.
Total Registered Voters: 17,485,702
- Democrats: 8,133,683 (46.52%)
- Republicans: 6,601,189 (37.75%)
- Unaffiliated: 2,750,830 (15.73%)
Now, was there a point to your little diatribe?
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