Texas Supreme Court rules major county can't mail ballot applications to all voters
By Justine Coleman - 10/07/20 12:16 PM EDT
The Texas Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that its most populous county cannot mail ballot applications to all registered voters.
The all-Republican Supreme Court said the elections administrator of Harris County, which includes Houston, cannot go through with a plan to mail ballot applications to all 2.4 million registered voters in the county, the Texas Tribune reported.
The justices ruled against County Clerk Chris Hollins’s efforts to expand voting options during the coronavirus pandemic, saying that sending applications by mail would overstep his authority.
“We conclude that the Election Code does not authorize the mailing proposed by the Harris County Clerk,†the court wrote in an opinion obtained by the Tribune.
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