There are 37 states with online voter registration. Texas, of course, is not one of them.

Voter registration cards in Texas arrive looking like a bushel basket of wire coat hangers because most voter registration happen in the summer and people sweat all over the cards. You mostly can’t read the handwriting on them and it takes a magician, a priest, and a Magic 8 Ball to decipher them.

But our legislature doesn’t want to change. Change hurts. It’s not good.

Ever since I can remember, our buddy Glen Maxey has gone to the legislature to lobby for online voting. Hell, even our secretary of state supports it and he’s appointed by the Governor. Every year, the County Clerk in Harris County (think Houston) rejects it because he can’t send an email without a teenager sitting beside him holding his hand and four phone calls to Bill Gates. So, we don’t get online voter registration.

However, there is hope. Texas allows people to renew their licenses online, but doesn’t allow them to register to vote at the same time. Last week, U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia told the state to fix that.

I am certain that our state attorney general will appeal it because he spends more money needlessly than Scott Pruitt.

But it’s a glimmer of hope to pull people screaming into these new-fangled fads.