Online voter registration is what's increasingly the norm nationally, and it's more cost-effective than the paper system we currently have in place. Just think about it. Why aren't we already doing this as it would dramatically cut administrative costs to implement? Your guess is certainly the right answer. It supports voter suppression, helping to preserve the incumbencies of those in power.

As I've said before, Texas is not a red state. It's an oppressed one. This, too, will change, but as this piece shows, it's still an uphill climb.

-Angela Valenzuela

Why Texas doesn't have online voter registration

Claudia Ortega Hogue, of the League of Women Voters, hands out voter registration 

applications to Nasib Kaur, left, and her son, Bobby Gill, following a Naturalization Ceremony at 

the M.O. Campbell Center on Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2016, in Houston. 

Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle