AUSTIN, Texas. (AP) - A state judge has ruled that Harris County can move forward with plans to send all registered voters a mail-in ballot application for the November general election.
Meanwhile, a federal appeals court dealt a blow to vote-by-mail advocates in Texas.
A push by the state’s Democrats and some voters to allow mail balloting during the coronavirus pandemic had been upheld by a federal district judge.
But a divided three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated that ruling late Thursday.
The panel rejected an argument that the vote-by-mail statute in Texas discriminates on the basis of age.
“Allowing universal mail-in ballots, which are particularly vulnerable to fraud, would only lead to greater election fraud and disenfranchise lawful voters,” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said.
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