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TexasTowelie

(111,288 posts)
Thu Jun 25, 2020, 01:32 AM Jun 2020

Federal court tosses suit brought by Texas Democrats seeking to revive straight-ticket voting

by Alexa Ura, Texas Tribune


A federal judge on Wednesday threw out Democrats’ effort to reinstate the straight-ticket voting option in Texas.

Siding with the state, U.S. District Judge Marina Garcia Marmolejo found that Democrats lacked standing to challenge Texas Republicans’ decision to kill straight-ticket voting ahead of the November general election. The judge dismissed the federal lawsuit after ruling that Democrats’ claims of the electoral fallout that could come from eliminating straight-ticket voting were too speculative.

The Texas Democratic Party — joined by the chair of the Webb County Democratic Party and the Democratic campaign arms of the U.S. Senate and House — filed the lawsuit in March on the heels of Super Tuesday voting that left some Texans waiting for hours to cast their ballots.

They claimed the elimination of straight-ticket voting is unconstitutional and intentionally discriminatory because the longer lines and waiting times it is expected to cause would be disproportionately felt at polling places that serve Hispanic and Black voters.

Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2020/06/24/texas-straight-ticket-voting-lawsuit/
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Federal court tosses suit brought by Texas Democrats seeking to revive straight-ticket voting (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jun 2020 OP
More suppression tactics. cayugafalls Jun 2020 #1
I never straight voted MagickMuffin Jun 2020 #2

MagickMuffin

(15,888 posts)
2. I never straight voted
Thu Jun 25, 2020, 09:00 PM
Jun 2020

I prefer to fill in every box for my candidates. It doesn't really take that long, but I can understand when we now have less polling locations to vote at.

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