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Texas governor limits election drop boxes to one per county in sprawling state

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  1. J.R.

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    A federal judge issued an order Friday night barring enforcement of Gov. Greg Abbott’s Oct. 1 proclamation that limited counties to one mail-in ballot drop-off location.

    U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman said Abbott’s order placed an unacceptable burden on the voting rights of elderly and disabled Texans, who are most likely to request a mail-in ballot and to hand deliver those ballots early to ensure that they are counted.

    These voters are also particularly vulnerable to COVID-19, the judge said.

    “By limiting ballot return centers to one per county, older and disabled voters living in Texas’s largest and most populous counties must travel further distances to more crowded ballot return centers where they would be at an increased risk of being infected by the coronavirus in order to exercise their right to vote and have it counted,” Pitman wrote.

    “By forcing absentee voters to risk infection with a deadly disease to return their ballots in person or disenfranchisement if the (Postal Service) is unable to deliver their ballots in time, the October 1 Order imposes a burden on an already vulnerable voting population,” he said.
     
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    Suck it Abbott!

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  4. AleksandarN

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    Good **** Abbott

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  5. Ziggy

    Ziggy QUEEN ANON

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    Naaaah, simply reversing it isn't sufficient punishment. Treason. Deport him.
     
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    Seriously people like him need to be arrested for infringing on voting rights.
     
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    Make him stand within 6 feet of trump
     
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    Xerobull ...and I'm all out of bubblegum

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    Burn



    (see, he can’t stand, he’s in a wheelchair)
     
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    Now AG Paxton is appealing the decision to the Fifth Circuit...which less than two weeks ago made a decision on straight-ticket balloting saying it was too close in time to the election to change the laws:

    http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/20/20-40643-CV0.pdf

    Pretty clear and unambiguous from this that Paxton’s appeal should be denied, as Abbott’s change occurred even closer in time than this.
     
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    I agree with you, but don’t bet on the 5th Circuit Judges to stay consistent.
     
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    This is the epitome of"changing the rules when they don't like it"

    Where's the concern troll monkeys who are belly aching at the prospect of Dems packing the courts?
     
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    So, as I understand it...Paxton filed an emergency appeal to the 5th Circuit...tonight they issued a temporary injunction upholding Abbot's decree.

    So...stay tuned.
     
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    Got em coach!
     
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    Nice find.

    The jerk is one of my all time favorites it's amazing how nobody talks about it anymore.

     
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    Ok?
     
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    Sincere question. Is this rightful justification of an armed revolution that our founders would support? This is blatant black and white voter supression.
     
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  18. bobrek

    bobrek Politics belong in the D & D

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    First movie we bought on VHS back in 1980. $89.95. We used some of our wedding money
     
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    Holy ****!

    90 dollars in 1980?

    You all really did like that movie.

    But then a VCR cost about a 1000 dollars then.
     
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    You guys were happy for a little while. Remember the good times
     
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