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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFederal judge says all Texas voters can apply to vote by mail during pandemic
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A federal judge on Tuesday opened a path for a massive expansion in absentee voting in Texas by ordering that all state voters regardless of age qualify for a mail-in ballot during the coronavirus pandemic.
Days after two hour preliminary injunction hearing in San Antonio, U.S. District Judge Fred Biery agreed with individual Texas voters and the Texas Democratic Party that voters would face irreparable harm if existing age eligibility rules for voting by mail remain in place for elections held while the coronavirus remains in wide circulation. Under his order, which will surely be appealed, voters under the age of 65 who would ordinarily not qualify for a mail-in ballot would now be eligible.
In the federal lawsuit, the Texas Democrats argued that holding traditional elections under the circumstances brought on by the coronavirus pandemic would impose unconstitutional and illegal burdens on voters unless state law was clarified to expand who can qualify to vote by mail.
They focused, in part, on the states eligibility rules that limit absentee voting based on age to those who are 65 or older. They argued that rule violated the U.S. Constitution because it would impose additional burdens on voters who are younger than 65 during the pandemic, and Biery agreed.
Days after two hour preliminary injunction hearing in San Antonio, U.S. District Judge Fred Biery agreed with individual Texas voters and the Texas Democratic Party that voters would face irreparable harm if existing age eligibility rules for voting by mail remain in place for elections held while the coronavirus remains in wide circulation. Under his order, which will surely be appealed, voters under the age of 65 who would ordinarily not qualify for a mail-in ballot would now be eligible.
In the federal lawsuit, the Texas Democrats argued that holding traditional elections under the circumstances brought on by the coronavirus pandemic would impose unconstitutional and illegal burdens on voters unless state law was clarified to expand who can qualify to vote by mail.
They focused, in part, on the states eligibility rules that limit absentee voting based on age to those who are 65 or older. They argued that rule violated the U.S. Constitution because it would impose additional burdens on voters who are younger than 65 during the pandemic, and Biery agreed.
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Federal judge says all Texas voters can apply to vote by mail during pandemic (Original Post)
Gothmog
May 2020
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outasync
(41 posts)1. Is voting by mail safe ...not to be paranoid but
Longtime Trump ally and fundraiser Louis DeJoy will serve as the new postmaster general for the US Postal Service, the USPS Board of Governors announced Wednesday.
ElementaryPenguin
(7,800 posts)3. OMG!!! Not sure how I missed that.
We are SOOOOO screwed!!!
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)4. I imagine her orders are two fold...oversee the the demise of the USPS....
but not before some serious voter rat f**king
mcar
(42,331 posts)5. You can hand deliver your VBM ballot to the Elections office in your community
Or to the polling place on election day.
I, too, fear for the USPS, but there are alternatives.
Gothmog
(145,231 posts)6. In red counties there is a chance that ballot may be rejected due to signature mismatch
I am worried about signature mismatch. Under the Texas election code the party who got the most votes for governor gets to control the county ballot board and the ballot board may reject ballot by mails due to signature mismatches. The Texas Civil rights Project is suing on this issue
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I may do curbside voting this cycle. Each voting location is required to provide curbside voting where the election official bring a machine called a dow out to the car
still_one
(92,190 posts)9. That is a valid concern
still_one
(92,190 posts)8. and just how would this post master general do that?
Cha
(297,224 posts)2. Hope it stays!