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Texas Supreme Court: Voters dont qualify for mail-in ballots due to lack of COVID immunity
By Tessa Weinberg
May 27, 2020 06:59 PM , Updated 30 minutes ago
The Texas Supreme Court ruled Wednesday afternoon that a lack of immunity to the novel coronavirus does not make a voter eligible for a mail-in ballot under Texas law.
Attorney General Ken Paxton had asked the states highest civil court to weigh in on the issue to prevent local election officials in some of Texas largest counties from processing mail-in ballots for voters who cite the disability category and normally would not qualify.
While the court agreed with Paxton that a lack of immunity to the virus alone would not qualify a voter for a mail-in ballot, they declined to order local election officials to investigate mail-in ballot applications they have received and said there is no evidence election officials have processed faulty ones.
Read more here: https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article243039891.html
still_one
(92,454 posts)Ilsa
(61,707 posts)and epidemiologists now? No one knows who is immune, or if immunity would last more than a few months. Everyone should assume they are not immune.
Tx should change mail-in voting law to permit it without an excuse.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)I would even agree that the legislature SHOULD do that, but here, the Court acted appropriately and stayed out of the fightleaving it to the legislature.
Or, so it appears to me.
-Laelth
panader0
(25,816 posts)I hope they are swamped with requests for mail-in ballots, with all manner of reasons
for disability. "I have bad knees and cannot stand for long." "I get mentally stressed in crowds."
"My mom needs constant care and I can't leave her." Etc., etc.
Vogon_Glory
(9,133 posts)The Republican jurists may
find that theyve made this election might be between certain Evangelicals and people who really loathe this administration and are willing to risk their lives and health to throw it out of power.