The 5th Circuit reinstated Texas' process for rejecting absentee ballots with signature match issues [View all]

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Daniel Jacobson
@Dan_F_Jacobson
This is a stunning opinion. The court holds that voters have *no due process rights at all* when their ballots are rejected, and therefore voters don't need to be given a chance to cure alleged signature mismatches. Their mail ballots can just be tossed out.

Zoe Tillman
@ZoeTillman
New: The 5th Circuit reinstated Texas' process for rejecting absentee ballots with signature match issues — the panel halted an injunction that would have stopped ballots from being tossed unless officials adopted a more robust notice/cure process https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7245123/10-19-20-Richardson-v-Texas-5th-Circuit-Opinion.pdf