In their appeal, Abbott and Hughs said the limiting order was enacted after Hughs learned at least one county planned to accept hand-delivered absentee ballot applications at invalid county offices. The state also wanted poll watchers to be at each site accepting such...
Texasalso passed four lower-profile voting restrictions:onethat allows the secretary of state to withhold funding from local election offices that don’t purge voters from the rolls as required by state law;onethat spells out certain excuses that arenotvalid reasons for requesting a...
Texas officially allows four categories of voters to request a mail ballot: persons over sixty-five, absentees, persons jailed but otherwise eligible, or those disabled by some “sickness or physical condition” that prevents them from voting in-person without endangering their health. Two lower co...
that creates new restrictions for people who need assistance voting by mail. Senate Bill 2358 limits who can collect and transmit a ballot that was mailed to someone else. In Mississippi, the state’s absentee-by-mail voting program is for limited groups of voters — people out ...
He submitted it and received his ballot. But his wife never received hers. So in late January, the Kemah, Texas, couple searched online how to request an application, filled out a form with her contact information and waited for the application to arrive. About a week later, Ina received...