Dear Lite Guv Who Laughs At Other People's Concerns....

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick laughs at Texans’ fear to vote in person during a pandemichttps://t.co/S9gX5znhI3

— Raw Story (@RawStory) May 23, 2020

“This idea that we want to give you a disability claim because I am afraid to go vote — if you are under 65 — is laughable,” Patrick said. “You have more chance of being in a serious auto accident if you are under 65 on the way to vote than you do from catching the virus and dying from it on the way to voting. This is the greatest scam ever.”

I'll be 65 in June, old enough under Texas law to vote by mail for absolutely no other reason.

According to Dan Patrick, if I did that now (vote by mail) because I was afraid of the coronavirus (I am), I'd be committing fraud or stealing an election.  That, or the risk of dying in an automobile accident after my next birthday rises so precipitously the state should look out for me at that point.  But they won't take away my driver's license.  Go figure.

If I vote by mail in November, no voter fraud.  Why is that?

Is there a fundamental difference in the way I vote between now and November?  Are voters under 65 inherently fraudulent in their voting, but over 65 the fraud suddenly drops away?

I really want to understand the difference, because I don't see it.

“There is no reason — capital N, capital O — no reason that anyone under 65 should be able to say I am afraid to go vote,” Patrick, a Republican, said in an interview with Fox News. “Have they been to a grocery store? Have they been to Walmart? Have they been to Lowe’s? Have they been to Home Depot? Have they been anywhere? Have they been afraid to go out of their house? This is a scam by the Democrats to steal the election.”

Yes I've been to the grocery store and to Lowe's.  I don't stand in lines in either place.  I saw a line outside Costco yesterday, people waiting to get in because old people like me get first dibs between 9 and 10.  Most of these people were much younger than that.  I've seen such lines at stores recently.  I don't stand in them.  I'm afraid.  I've also seen such lines at my polling place.  I won't stand in them now. I'm afraid.  I'm a Democrat, and I'm not trying to steal anything.  I'm trying to stay alive.

(I also don't see 254 county clerks investigating mail in ballot requests for fraud because the request is based on inability to get the polling place due to infirmity.  This ain't insurance fraud, and they don't have the manpower.  The scam is not trying to vote; the scam is scaring people away from voting.)