Texas AG asks Supreme Court to order election officials to reject mail ballots

[brooklynite]

Dallas Morning News

Attorney General Ken Paxton on Wednesday asked the Texas Supreme Court to order election officials in several counties to reject mail ballot applications from people who fear catching the coronavirus during in-person voting.

The motion specifically mentioned election officials in Dallas, Cameron, El Paso, Harris and Travis counties.

“Each misapplication of Texas election law damages the integrity of our elections and increases the risk of voter fraud. In-person voting is the surest way to prevent voter fraud and guarantee that every voter is who they claim to be and has a fair opportunity to cast their vote,” Paxton said in a statement. “It is unfortunate that certain county election officials have refused to perform their duties and have instead unlawfully gone beyond the Legislature’s determination of who is eligible to vote by mail. My office will continue to defend the integrity of Texas’s election laws.”

[madaboutharry]

1. These republicans are loathsome.

The only thing that is a fraud are themselves.

[bronxiteforever]

2. Grandma Oughta Perish (GOP) n/t

[Frustratedlady]

3. It always sends up a flag for me when they protest vote by mail. What are they scared of?

It's as though they've already used Vote by Mail in some criminal way and are afraid the Democrats will figure their method out and use it against them.

Though Protesteth Too Much comes to mind.

[Desert grandma]

4. My husband's nephew is on the Texas SC

My husband was raised in a conservative Republican family in El Paso and his siblings are still conservative Republicans. My husband is the outlier becoming a Democratic voter after marrying me in NM in 1974. He voted for Reagan, and I voted for Carter in 1980. That was the only time in our 46 year long marriage that he voted for a Republican for President. His siblings, on the other hand, have remained tried and true evangelical Republicans. His sister and family live in Houston, and she is the mother of the Texas SC justice, who is a very smart Yale educated lawyer who is as conservative and brainwashed as they are. It is hard for me to wrap my head around how intelligent people can profess to be "Christian" while supporting policies which are diametrically opposed to the biblical tenet, "We are our brother's Keeper.". I am so tempted to write to him to explain the point of view that VOTERS SHOULD BE ENCOURAGED TO VOTE IN A DEMOCRACY! This campaign against voting by mail is only a voter suppression technique. Voter fraud is historically almost non existent. I feel like asking him, "What are people who oppose this right to vote by mail, afraid of?????"