Posted on 04/22/2024 5:42:58 PM PDT by CFW
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a legal challenge to a Texas law that requires voters under the age of 65 to provide justification to vote by mail, meaning that the Democrat-aligned attempt to sharply expand “no-excuse” mail-in ballots in the Lone Star state has failed, with implications for other states.
According to an April 22 order list, the high court denied petition for a writ of cetriorari in a case that stems from a federal lawsuit filed in 2020 on behalf of the Texas Democratic Party and several voters who requested that Texas lift its age-based limitations on no-excuse mail-in voting.
Texas law only allows individuals to vote by mail without a qualifying excuse, like sickness, if they are 65 years or older. In their original complaint, which made its way through a number of lower courts before ending up before the Supreme Court, the petitioners alleged that the Texas voting law violates the 26th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits denying the right to vote due to age.
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The legislature makes the voting laws. Barring something like not allowing Blacks to vote, as was the case long ago (which violated the Constitution), the judicial branch doesn’t have a say. At least it’s not supposed to.
“...with implications for other states.”
The democrats will be content with the five or six battleground states that will allow it under any circumstance.
The courts have not been interfering very much with state legislatures as far as rules for mail-in ballots, voter ID, etc. Problem is, it takes state legislators getting off their butts and passing well written laws that can withstand a court challenge.
Just wait until AI kicks in with Dem set algorerhythms. We’ll have millions of computers requesting ballots.
Nah the fix is in.
Only way Texas can benefit is #TEXIT. Time to divorce DC and the 49 bitches that take our taxes. Adios time.
Agree but you know how the democrats are they keep counting the dead as voters the lists need to be scrubbed.
Virgil Kane’s brother is over 65, though he was just 18, tall and proud, when a Yankee laid him in his grave. So’s Virgil Kane.
ha ha ha ha ha ha. the left lost.
DC would become a state to keep it an even 50. Other than that, things couldn’t get much worse.
Mail-in voting should be restricted to deployed military and maybe those in the hospital too sick to go vote, but that’s about it.
Set up poling places on military bases, let them vote for president. Beyond that they are not residents of a state. Do the same thing with embassy staff.
Change the tax laws so that expat with no US income and who live 330 day a year outside the US pay no income tax but lose the right to vote while living overseas. (Note: I lived overseas for 24 years)
Then:
1. Abolish absentee voting, but have the polls open 24 hours.
2. Purge voter rolls every 5 years.
3. All ballots must be delivered within two hours after the polls close; beyond that time, no more will be accepted. To ensure the safety and arrival of ballot boxes they must be escorted by a law enforcement officer.
4. Once counting starts, it cannot stop.
5. There must be a live video of the counting room.
6. The precent tally of voted and spoiled ballots supplied by poll workers must match the totals in the sealed box. O otherwise the box contents are void.
6. No partial totals can be released.
I remember when the military didn’t get their ballots in time to mail back.
States can implement restrictions easier after this ruling
You could surmise I reckon
Regardless of the number of losses, the leftists are still expanding their agenda and idea of a Utopia.
The left will ignore the law and do this anyway.
Who is going to stop them?
There should only be the number of ballots totaled that match the total number of valid voters that have legally registered to vote,
Sounds like good news to me.Mail in voting is one of the chief vehicles used by Rat Party Headquarters to steal elections.
Not Texas’s problem. They the ones drowning in Texas tax money dolled out by DC.
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