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US judge blocks Abbott order limiting ballot drop-off locations
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| Contributor | BrentinCO |
| Last Edited | BrentinCO Oct 10, 2020 01:27am |
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| Category | News |
| Author | Chuck Lindell |
| News Date | Saturday, October 10, 2020 07:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | 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. |
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