Texas Scorecard by Erin Anderson April 23, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court denied Democrats’ request to hear arguments against the state’s age limit for using mail-in ballots.Texas Democrats lost another attempt to overturn the state’s election law that limits no-excuse mail-in voting to voters who are 65 years of age or older.
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court denied Democrats’ request to hear arguments intended to force Texas and other states to accept universal voting by mail.
Lower courts have rejected their claims multiple times.
Under Texas law, only voters 65 or older, disabled, in jail, or outside their home county during an election are eligible to vote by mail.
The Texas Democrat Party filed a lawsuit in early 2020 seeking to make voting by mail universal, using fears about the COVID-19 outbreak as an excuse to push their preferred policies.
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