Texans forced to vote in person with virus outbreak among the worst in the world

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By Associated Press -July 14, 2020 10:15 AM

Republican Gov. Greg Abbott did not include polling places in his recent statewide mask order.

As Texas struggles to contain a raging coronavirus outbreak, voters on Tuesday were set to head out to polls for runoff elections that include choosing a Democratic nominee in a U.S. Senate race that offers the party another chance to break through in America's biggest red state.

Texas has become one of the world's virus hot zones and is in far worse shape now than when the runoff was postponed in March. Last week was the deadliest of the pandemic for Texas, and Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has warned that the infection numbers will likely get even worse.

Abbott did not include polling places in his recent statewide mask order, and unlike many states, Texas has fought efforts to expand mail-in balloting during the pandemic. More than 1 million ballots were cast in early voting — higher than most primary runoffs in recent years, but only a fraction of the state's 16 million registered voters.

The election will settle primary battles that include Donald Trump's former doctor, Ronny Jackson, trying to win the Republican nomination for a rural congressional seat. But the biggest race is for who Democrats will pick as their Senate nominee to face Republican incumbent John Cornyn, who isn't as threatened as several GOP senators in battleground states, but is confronting new signs of vulnerability in rapidly changing Texas.

https://americanindependent.com/texas-senate-runoff-coronavirus-mj-hegar-royce-west-john-cornyn-2020-election-covid-19/

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

1. Is their calculus that "the libs." will be more likely to die?.... nt

[Budi]

2. I wish Tx would circulate a state wide "petition to resign" for Abbot.

Not that he actually would, but just to see the numbers, would be a signal of encouragment for the 2022 election to run our strongest Democrat to govern this fine State.

It's time to end the crushing Republican rule in this State.