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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnd in Texas they have this...........read the first paragraph....in the letter ...
here is "the" letter..............
https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/images/admin/2020/Press/4.14.20%20Letter%20to%20Rep.%20Klick.pdf?utm_content=&utm_medium=email&utm_name=&utm_source=govdelivery&utm_term=
Texas AG threatens to criminally sanction any group that tells voters to apply for a mail-in ballot to avoid COVID-19
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/texas-ag-threatens-to-criminally-sanction-any-group-that-tells-voters-to-apply-for-a-mail-in-ballot-to-avoid-covid-19/
His hat must be really wound tight................maybe he should go and wait in line like everyone else...........or does he have another standard and he gets to vote in his office and hand it to someone.........
Maybe the ACLU should jump in on this, which they have already done................I would gladly send them some more money to just do this...............again if need be..............
dhol82
(9,352 posts)LonePirate
(13,408 posts)dhol82
(9,352 posts)Sounds like waffle words otherwise.
ananda
(28,837 posts)ACLU should get in on this.
Gothmog
(144,945 posts)turbinetree
(24,685 posts)Gothmog
(144,945 posts)uponit7771
(90,304 posts)Gothmog
(144,945 posts)The hearing was on zoom and this was an issue discussed. The judge indicated that he would rule in favor of the Texas Democratic Party and the ACLU
Link to tweet
TexasTowelie
(111,976 posts)RKP5637
(67,089 posts)pwb
(11,252 posts)Criminally? Is that like being arrested?
yonder
(9,657 posts)northoftheborder
(7,569 posts)I've always known what an insanely extremist he is....but this takes the cake...
LonePirate
(13,408 posts)Absentee and mail ballots for everyone statewide, if permitted in November, could certainly elect Biden, defeat Cornyn and probably flip the TX House on top of electing several more Congressional Dems.
mercuryblues
(14,525 posts)Staph
(6,251 posts)Even in West Virginia, our Republican Secretary of State recommends that everyone vote via absentee ballot, and he put the instructions for choosing the correct reason on the his state website.
https://sos.wv.gov/about/Pages/Covid-19.aspx
Gothmog
(144,945 posts)randr
(12,409 posts)should be considered a felony
IllinoisBirdWatcher
(2,315 posts)Treatment may be as easy as changing lifestyle or as complex as requiring medication and/or counseling.
Any citizen can have anxiety disorder. Making voters choose between excercising their right to vote or risking their life to a pandemic disease is a clear "sickness" or "disability" regardless of the babbling from the Texas Attorney General.
Gothmog
(144,945 posts)Glen is interesting
We won first step today on the vote by mail lawsuit. Judge will enter order in next days. It will be appealed of course.
To those. Who commented asking me to wear a maskit was on Zoom.
The court still requires a coat and tie. Thanks for all the comments on my post on how hot I looked (hot is defined by the reader). I will admit I was pant less.
And the cold AG attorney got her comeuppance when she seriously and snarkingly asked you arent a medical doctor are you? First know I hadnt testified about anything medical.
So my response was No. But neither is The Governor or the Attorney General. She objected that was non-responsive. I dont get lawyers. I was quite proud of that response.
Maybe I should have just called the AG a right wing ignorant ass. Since he issued a threat in a letter to Elections Committee Chair Klick that persons telling folks they can vote by mail using what the judge ruled today can be prosecuted
I dont think I react well to government oppression. So stick it Kenny Paxton, courtyard bully. You dont scare me
Crunchy Frog
(26,578 posts)Gothmog
(144,945 posts)This makes me smile https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/17/politics/texas-voting-by-mail-disability-coronavirus/index.html
District Judge Tim Sulak, in a ruling filed Friday in Travis County, issued a temporary injunction that eases the definition of "disability" in Texas' vote-by-mail provision, making it apply to all registered voters who fear for their health in casting ballots in person for the state's upcoming elections.
Texas' election code defines "disability" as "a sickness or physical condition that prevents the voter from appearing at the polling place on election day without a likelihood of needing personal assistance or of injuring the voter's health." Voters who meet this definition and wish to vote by mail must submit applications.
Sulak acknowledged during a court hearing on Wednesday that he expects an appeal from the state attorney's office, which has issued guidance that fear of Covid-19 does not qualify as a disability.
"Moreover the evidence shows that voters and these Plaintiffs ... are reasonable that voting in person while the virus that causes Covid-19 is still in general circulation presents a likelihood of injuring their health, and any voters without established immunity meet the plain language definition of disability thereby entitling them to a mailed ballot," the order read.
In late March, Gov. Greg Abbott postponed dozens of election runoffs statewide for party nominations to congressional and local offices, set for May 26, until July 14. The new date was made to coincide with a competitive special election for a Texas state Senate seat. In issuing the delay, Abbott didn't weigh in on whether to expand mail-in voting access.