I'll start responding to these one by one.
1 - Is it possible for an election to be rigged? Could it be possible that elections aren't online in order to prevent the tech nerds from hacking the elections and rigging the election? For those states that do offer online voting, have they ever been hacked?
2 - the plural executive and bureaucracy in Texas. If you could explain and review again how it works?
3 - how does Texas court system work?
4 - There are more than five thousands local government in Texas. All of them are elected by the people and each member of these local governments have to seek for election and reelection every 2- 4 or six years. Why commissioners, judges etc have to be elected instead of appointed by the Texas governor. Wouldn't it be easy and cheaper for those member of the government to be appointed by the Texas governor?
5 - Why do a bunch of flawed people (politicians) get to to control a system (made by flawed people) that control a bunch of people (citizens) who are also flawed?
6 - Why is the patronage system not restricted or frowned upon since it is only about connections rather than qualifications? I am aware that Texas uses both the merit-based civil service system and patronage, but why do something that disregards other people's qualifications and focuses solely on who they voted for? Wouldn't that defeat the purpose of working hard in a career that is involved in politics because at the end of the day the patronage system is still there?
7 - Why is the judicial branch the strongest and how?
8 - This isn’t really related just a personal question. So, I would like to be more politically involved and do my part as a citizen. So my question is, what’s a good website to learn which party i side with and how I would chose my vote?
9 - I read in the textbook that Texas prisons can have prisoners produce items, but only for government organizations. So, does that mean things like the desks at the college were also produced in prisons?
