Texas Scorecard by Erin Anderson June 11, 2020
Democrats admit defeat in state court, but Texas continues to fight their push for universal vote-by-mail in federal court.Texas Democrats have abandoned one of their two lawsuits aimed at forcing the state to allow everyone to vote by mail, a process ripe for fraud and abuse, after the Texas Supreme Court dealt a blow to their key argument. The state is still fighting a second Democrat vote-by-mail lawsuit in federal court.
On Wednesday, the Texas Democrat Party and allies including the League of Women Voters dropped their original suit, filed in state court, claiming that county election officials should disregard state voting laws and accept every mail-ballot application marked “disability†for the remainder of 2020, and possibly beyond.
Under Texas law, only voters who are 65 or older, disabled, in jail, or outside their home county during an election are eligible to vote by mail.
Democrats argued fear of contracting the coronavirus at the polls should qualify all voters to claim they are disabled and request a mail ballot.
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