Coronavirus-related mail voting is off again in Texas, as state Supreme Court weighs in

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Source: Dallas Morning News

AUSTIN — The Texas Supreme Court late Friday overruled an appeals court’s order that had allowed election officials across the state to temporarily give mail ballots to people who are afraid of being infected with the coronavirus.

Attorney General Ken Paxton said the court accepted his argument that mail ballots should not be granted to voters who fear catching COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus. He said the Supreme Court’s order stops the distribution of mail ballots under those conditions until his appeal is heard.

“I am pleased that today the Texas Supreme Court confirmed that my office may continue to prosecute voter fraud and issue guidance on mail-in ballots" while an appeal plays out, Paxton said in a statement.

Read more: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/public-health/2020/05/15/texas-supreme-court-puts-mail-ballots-for-those-who-fear-covid-19-on-hold/

[Auggie]

1. THIS is voter fraud

[jaxexpat]

2. GOP's got it covered both ways. It's easy to confound the confused.

If you vote in person (which may be the ONLY way to be sure you have a half assed probability of having your vote counted) you might get Covid-19 from other voters or the doddering old farts manning the polls trying to discern signature matches (sorry, I had that happen).

If you count on voting by mail, they might just shut down the USPS (I know that's illegal but some mail carriers probably won't work with a cut in pay).

Or the delay, because it takes so long to open those envelopes and to keep them in an organized pile and do this for probably a month. The papers on my desk move themselves into the trash bin over the course of a month (I don't know how this happens but it does). All while the media is horse racing and second guessing and predetermining, all while the count is still going on, some trying to suggest to the electorate that if such and such candidate didn't do the way they thought then maybe there is something shady happening and people getting nervous because everybody knows this is the last shot the peaceful transfer of power within a democratic framework actually has in the western hemisphere. And all while Trump is making shit up, threatening stuff and Aunt Nancy is trying to maintain something akin to universal sanity. And this for at least a MONTH.

I know I'm looking forward to that.

[Omaha Steve]

3. After a review by forum hosts....LOCKING

Over 20 hours old when posted. By James Barragán 8:11 PM on May 15, 2020

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