Texas Scorecard By Erin Anderson June 25, 2020
Texas Democrats lost their challenge to a new state law that ends “straight-ticket†voting starting in the 2020 general election.Democrats lost another attempt to change Texas voting laws by using lawsuits instead of the legislature.
On Tuesday, a federal district court dismissed a suit filed by the Texas Democrat Party and other Democrats that sought to block a new state law eliminating “straight-ticket†voting.
Straight-ticket or “straight-party†voting allows voters to select all of a party’s candidates on the ballot with one mark. November 2020 will be the first Texas election without that option.
Democrats argued that House Bill 25, passed by the Texas Legislature in 2017 and set to take effect this September, will “confuse†minority voters who “on average have lower educational attainments,†among other claims.
“According to Plaintiffs, the enforcement of HB 25 will cause longer lines at polling-places, increased roll-off at polling-places, voter confusion at polling-places, and less turnout from Democratic-party voters at polling-places,†U.S. District Court Judge Marina Garcia Marmolejo
wrote in her dismissal.
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