Circuit Judge quietly bans vote by mail that was pushed by Democrats after COVID
A dream of the Democrats was allowing mail in voting, and they almost had it during COVID19.
Well, now a judge has weighed in, and in this major swing state, it is banned.
In a 48-page ruling Thursday, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a decision by a District Court judge in San Antonio two weeks ago that would have allowed for expanded mail-in balloting during the pandemic.
The lawsuit, which listed the Texas Democratic Party as its lead plaintiff, sought to expand vote by mail in Texas to allow for anyone who wanted to cast a ballot by mail to do so until the coronavirus pandemic erodes.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appealed the suit, with the Appeals Court ruling in his favor, saying that requiring Texas to expand its mail-in balloting would present “significant, irreparable harm” to how the state alters its election rules since it would set the precedent of a court forcing a state to alter rules on the eve of an election.
The ruling comes just a little more than a week after the Texas Supreme Court shot down a similar case.