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LiberalArkie

(15,713 posts) Sat Oct 31, 2020, 08:25 PM Oct 2020

One of the plaintiffs trying to throw out drive-thru votes in Harris County, Texas, is a COVID and Q

One of the plaintiffs trying to throw out drive-thru votes in Harris County, Texas, is a COVID and QAnon conspiracy theorist

Texas Republicans have petitioned a federal court to potentially throw out more than 100,000 ballots cast in drive-thru voting in Harris County, Texas. One of the plaintiffs is right-wing commentator Steven Hotze, a QAnon conspiracy theorist who has said that the coronavirus is “much ado about nothing” and speculated that the “deep state could have been the ones that orchestrated this whole viral problem with the virus.”

Hotze is a plaintiff along with Republican congressional candidate Wendell Champion, Texas State Rep. Steve Toth, and Republican judicial candidate Sharon Hemphill. Their petition, as summarized by the Statesman, claims “that drive-thru voting is an illegal expansion of curbside voting, which state law reserves for voters who have an illness or disability that could put them at risk if forced to enter a polling place.” That argument is bogus: The voting sites that accepted the ballots now being challenged were approved by Texas Secretary of State Ruth Hughs, who was appointed by Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, and the sites were set up in consultation with local Republican officials. And Texas Republicans waited until after more than 100,000 ballots were cast via drive-thru lanes to argue that those voting sites are contrary to Texas election laws.

Their petition is scheduled to be heard on November 2 before United States District Judge Andrew Scott Hanen.

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https://www.mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-and-suppression/one-plaintiffs-who-trying-throw-out-drive-thru-votes-harris-county