Texas Democrats ask Supreme Court to expand access to mail voting
he Texas Democratic Party on Tuesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to expand access of mail-in ballots to all voters in the state, including those afraid of contracting the coronavirus.
Texas GOP officials have sought to limit the use of absentee ballots, claiming they are vulnerable to fraud. Currently, Texas allows absentee voting only for voters who are out of state, have a disability or are over age 65.
A federal appeals panel sided with the state earlier this month, saying that it was up to the state, not the courts, to determine how to administer voting during a pandemic.
The Texas Democratic Party, which filed the original lawsuit challenging state law, on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to intervene and allow an earlier ruling by a U.S. district judge to remain in effect so that any Texan can vote by mail to avoid the possibility of infection during the pandemic.
Democrats also asked the Supreme Court to hear the case, arguing that Texas’s current vote-by-mail restrictions violate the 26th Amendment, which prohibits voting laws that discriminate on the basis of age.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/texas-democrats-ask-supreme-court-to-expand-access-to-mail-voting/2020/06/16/0cfc0734-af84-11ea-856d-5054296735e5_story.html
= new reply since forum marked as read
