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RandySF

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Tue Oct 13, 2020, 10:19 PM Oct 2020

Texas counties can offer only one drop-off ballot location, federal appeals court rules, upholding G

Texas counties may collect mail-in ballots at only one location, a federal appeals court ruled late Monday, once again upholding an order from Gov. Greg Abbott that restricts voting options.

Abbott in July acted to lengthen the early voting period and allow voters to deliver completed absentee ballots in person for longer than the normal period. But after large Democratic counties including Harris and Travis established several sites where voters could deliver their ballots, Abbott ordered Oct. 1 that they would be limited to one.

A number of civil rights groups sued in at least four lawsuits, calling the order an act of voter suppression that would disproportionately impact low-income voters, voters with disabilities, older voters and voters of color in Democratic counties. A federal judge on Friday sided with those groups, blocking Texas from enforcing the ruling.

But a three-judge panel on the conservative U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily halted that ruling on Saturday and on Monday gave a more formal word on the matter in a written opinion.






https://www.texastribune.org/2020/10/13/texas-election-ballot-drop-off/

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Texas counties can offer only one drop-off ballot location, federal appeals court rules, upholding G (Original Post) RandySF Oct 2020 OP
Assholes. May they rot in hell. triron Oct 2020 #1
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