Texas Guv Sued For Move To Severely Limit Mail Ballot Drop-Off Locations

[Gothmog]

Chad Dunn has filed a lawsuit on this act of voter suppression
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/abbott-sued-ballot-drop-off-locations

The lawsuit, filed Thursday evening, alleges that the new policy — which was announced the day before several drop-off locations were scheduled to open — is a violation of the Constitution’s 14th Amendment and the Voting Rights Act.

“The impact of this eleventh-hour decisions is momentous, targets Texas’ most vulnerable voters—older voters, and voters with disabilities—and results in wild variations in access to absentee voting drop-off locations depending on the county a voter resides in,” the lawsuit said. “It also results in predictable disproportionate impacts on minority communities that already hit hardest by the COVID-19 crisis.”

County election officials from Harris County, Travis County, Fort Bend County and El Paso County are also named as defendants in the suit, as is Texas Secretary of State Ruth Hughs.

The lawsuit notes that counties like Travis and Harris — which have populations larger than some U.S. states and also sprawling geographies — had planned to offer several locations for absentee voters to drop off their ballots.

[patricia92243]

1. How soon can they expect an answer?

[hlthe2b]

2. One assumes they asked for immediate injunctive relief--if so, relatively quickly (on the injunction