Texas Supreme Court halts counties from issuing mail-in ballots to voters afraid of virus

[applegrove]

Texas Supreme Court halts counties from issuing mail-in ballots to voters afraid of virus

By Chris Boyette and Kelly Mena, CNN

Updated 11:54 PM ET, Fri May 15, 2020

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/15/politics/texas-supreme-court-mail-in-ballots/index.html

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(CNN)The Texas Supreme Court issued a stay Friday evening to keep county election officials from allowing voters who are afraid of catching coronavirus to vote by mail.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton asked the court to step in Wednesday, arguing that election officials are "misapplying" the state's "disability" requirement for absentee mail-in voting amid the pandemic.

Paxton, a Republican, filed a petition for Dallas, Cameron, El Paso, Harris and Travis counties.

The court will hear the case on May 20 as the next state election fast approaches.

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[sakabatou]

1. Voter disenfranchisement!

[abqtommy]

2. I figure that Texans could split their present land area into at least 5 states. If they wanted to,

that is...

[struggle4progress]

3. I don't want Texas to have ten senators

[abqtommy]

5. I hadn't thought of that. That might be a bad thing. Maybe just consider my previous post a

launching point for a discussion of secession in general. We need as many plans available as we can get...

[struggle4progress]

6. I'm a Yankee who has spent years of my life in the South, including some in Texas

I'm not any kind of secessionist

[abqtommy]

7. That's fine. I'm not proseletyzing. It's just that the things we've tried so far: investigation,

impeachment and all doesn't seem to be working...

[struggle4progress]

8. Bottom-up grassroots organizing works. Hoping media will cover Democrats doesn't work.

Neither does simply posting opinions online

[abqtommy]

10. Posting opinions online helps me to understand what my opinions are and to evolve

as I see necessary...

[struggle4progress]

11. Of course, sites like this can help prepare you for grass-works organizing -- but in the end,

there's no substitute for the hard grass-roots work

[cayugafalls]

4. Fucker. Pardon my language.

Ken Paxton is a fuckwit.

[flying_wahini]

9. Yes he is.

[struggle4progress]

12. ELECTION CODE. TITLE 7. EARLY VOTING. SUBTITLE A. EARLY VOTING.

CHAPTER 82. ELIGIBILITY FOR EARLY VOTING ...

Sec. 82.002. DISABILITY. (a) A qualified voter is eligible for early voting by mail if the voter has a sickness or physical condition that prevents the voter from appearing at the polling place on election day without a likelihood of needing personal assistance or of injuring the voter's health ...

https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/EL/htm/EL.82.htm

Paxton: How does dying from a pandemic disease injure your health?

[applegrove]

13. Exactly. Great research. nt

[Hermit-The-Prog]

14. a question ...

Sec. 82.003. AGE. A qualified voter is eligible for early voting by mail if the voter is 65 years of age or older on election day.

How is the above not discriminatory? If those age 65 or older can easily get a mail-in ballot, why can't everyone?