At Least Five Constitutional Lawsuits Have been Filed Against New Texas Law on Voting Procedures

Posted on by September 11, 2021

At least five lawsuits have been filed against the new Texas law on voting procedures. This ABA Journal article lists them. Four are in federal court and one is in state court. Thanks to Thomas Jones for the link.

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At Least Five Constitutional Lawsuits Have been Filed Against New Texas Law on Voting Procedures — 24 Comments

  1. What genius lawyer will detect before dooms day

    1/2 or less votes x 1/2 gerrymander areas = 1/4 or less CONTROL ??? — with monarch gang bosses.

    ALL States and many many local regimes.
    —-
    PR
    APPV
    TOTSOP

  2. I reviewed the new election laws in Texas. I didn’t really read anything unconstitutional about the new laws. It wants to eliminate drive-thru voting. Are you kidding me? Are people that lazy they can’t get out of a car to walk in and vote? Voters who want to vote by mail will have to provide a driver’s license or personal ID number, the last four digits of their Social Security number or a statement that they lack either of those forms of ID. Good! This prevents fraud. The measure provides protections for poll watchers, including allowing them to sit or stand close enough “to see and hear” election workers conducting their activities. And poll watchers cannot be “denied free movement” in a location where they are serving. That’s good! Every election jurisdiction in USA should do that unlike last time. SB 1 prohibits election officials or public officials from sending absentee ballot applications “to a person who did not request the application.” Once again, good! That’s the way its suppose to be. Voters who make a mistake — like forgetting to sign a mail ballot certificate or omitting residency information, or if their signature is questioned — may fix that defect to ensure their ballot counts. I think that’s considerate with good intentions.

  4. @BDLU,

    Texas has had curbside voting since at least 1905. The law at that time said that carriages could not drive up to the door of the polling place unless the person could not enter the polling place. In that case the ballot would be brought out to them.

    It still exists. If a voter can’t enter the polling place without risk to their health, a voting device will be brought out to them. But with drive-through voting they simply had clerks on roller skates skate out to the car and the device would be passed around to multiple persons in a car.

  5. @BDLU,

    The only time I’ve been aware of a poll watcher was one time a poll watcher from a teachers union wanted to know my name. My sister was an election clerk, and as I approached the check-in table, she said, “hi Jim!”, and began to look for my name in the voter roll. This alarmed the poll watcher who thought voters were being sneaked in.

    Before there was voter registration, a voter would announce their name so bystanders could verify the person lived in the environs.

    At one time in Texas, poll watchers were called supervisors (despite the name they were representatives of candidates, not the election officials). They were under oath, and required to report any irregularities to a grand jury. Over time the position has been weakened such that some election judges think are irritants.

  6. What State has the highest percent of NET LOOTERS ???

    CA, NY, ZZ ???

    — the worst financial net worth per legal resident ???

    CA, NY, ZZ ???

  9. “Shock me” that Big Daddy is not wrong, but Not.Even.Wrong.

    Demo Rep, where’s your lawsuit?

  10. He’s not wrong. It’s a good law. I’m proud of Texas. Their new abortion law is great too. We need both those laws in Florida and next door in Georgia.

  12. At one time there was a tax assessor/collector who instructed his employees to answer the phone, “Carl Smith’s office.” Since that office was in charge of vehicle registration, you would think you had misdialed. When you were making out the check, you were instructed to make it out to Carl Smith. If you held out long enough they would tell you the name of the agency.

    The absentee application had a return of “Lionel Hollins”. That may have been to hide the fact it was from a government entity. Lionel Hollins was the county clerk at the time. The office of county clerk was on the ballot. Though Hollins was not running for election he certainly was eligible.

    Had he been running, he would have been converting public funds to private benefit.

    The county clerk should apply election law neutrally. By sending out application prior to a primary, he would be trying to induce voters to not participate in a convention of the Libertarian or Green party, or a new party or signing an independent petition, in effect poisoning the well. It is a criminal offense to vote in a primary and also participate in a convention.

  20. You’re not the only Andy here, jackass. Quit throwing your idiotic tantrum. No one said it was from you. And no one cares. If you care, start using your last name, or add some numbers at the end of your name or something. Quit acting like a spoiled two year old child.

  23. I think Andy who keeps saying that posts by anyone else named Andy aren’t him is either the Vietnamese spammer or hired the Vietnamese spammer.

  24. Note that none of the times that he has chimed in that it’s not him did anyone say or ask if it was him.

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