Posted on 10/11/2020 9:53:55 AM PDT by prairiebreeze
A federal appeals court on Saturday granted a temporary administrative stay, allowing Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's directive for one location per county for ballot drop boxes to remain in place for now.
The grant from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit means the directive from Abbott, a Republican, will stand until the court has considered the state's motion for a stay on its merits.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton had filed an emergency motion Saturday for a stay pending appeal to block a district court order that would have allowed county officials to accept hand delivery of mail-in ballots at any county annex or satellite office. The motion seeks to require eligible voters to hand-deliver their ballots to a single early voting clerk's office to ensure ballot security, his office said in a release.
"The district court's order undermines our election security, disrupts the democratic process, and will only lead to voter confusion. It cannot stand," Paxton said in the news release. "Mail-in ballots are particularly vulnerable to fraud. Protections that ensure their security must be upheld and my office will continue to fight for safe, free and fair elections."
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The drop boxes are NOT just “boxes” that you deposit things into unsupervised. You have to contact a person manning the drop location and prove you are the person listed on the ballot envelope, since only the person voting may drop off the ballot and no one else. Makes sense, since “ballot harvesting” is a real problem in many locations.
Interesting. (And really doesn’t make sense if mail-in absentee ballots are allowed.) Not the case at all in CT. But still, it seems as if the town clerk level, right at the town hall, would be the place for such, were it required.
Just google county election 2020 early voting for your county
In a heavy Dem area, mail truck engine catches fire. Postal worker escapes uninjured, but several thousand harvested ballots are consumed by the flames
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