Texas Republicans try to invalidate 127,000 ballots

[BUTCH1]

Wow, just wow, Haris county set up voting from inside the vehicle as a means of Covid 19 safety, now a big dollar GOP donor and several TX Republicans filed a lawsuit
on Friday to declare the ballots as invalid because of an "illegal expansion of curbside voting", the 127,000 who used this method might have to return to a polling site
on Tuesday to cast another ballot, even worse many will not even know their 1st ballot was made null and void, https://www.texastribune.org/2020/10/31/harris-county-drive-thru-votes/

 

[feralkid]

One day they will burn in Hell.





Maybe Tuesday?

 

[Greenman]

It will get tossed out. Unless Texas has some law that makes voting from inside a car illegal.

 

[sandorski]

Expect more of this.

 

[BUTCH1]

It will get tossed out. Unless Texas has some law that makes voting from inside a car illegal.

It should, the same exact voter verification that someone would go though inside happened outside, the photo ID was
checked to assure it's the correct person voting and names checked against registered voters.

 

[Puffnstuff]

TX supreme court rejected their efforts.

Texas Supreme Court rejects Republican-led effort to throw out nearly 127,000 Harris County votes

A handful of GOP activists and candidates had asked the state's highest civil court to rule Harris County's drive-thru voting locations illegal and invalidate votes that have already been cast. The challenge has also been filed in federal court.

www.texastribune.org

 

[BUTCH1]

Expect more of this.

Oh yea, in Pennsylvania, by law, mailed in ballots cannot be started to be counted until Tuesday AM, if trump has
a lead showing at that time his plan is to declare victory and challenge to declare uncounted votes as "bogus".

 

[K1052]

It will get tossed out. Unless Texas has some law that makes voting from inside a car illegal.

Texas Supreme Court already told them to get lost so they're trying their luck with the Federal courts where they drew a very friendly judge.

TX SecState approved the method, the GOP here had input that was accepted, and there was agreement where the GOP promised not to sue. They waited until 100K votes were in to break the deal.

 

[Greenman]

There we go.

 

[BUTCH1]

TX supreme court rejected their efforts.

Texas Supreme Court rejects Republican-led effort to throw out nearly 127,000 Harris County votes

A handful of GOP activists and candidates had asked the state's highest civil court to rule Harris County's drive-thru voting locations illegal and invalidate votes that have already been cast. The challenge has also been filed in federal court.

www.texastribune.org

Awesome news BUT.....they will now put this in front of a federal circuit judge, The Republican plaintiffs, however, are pursuing a similar lawsuit in federal court, hoping to get the votes thrown out by arguing that drive-thru voting violates the U.S. constitution. A hearing in that case is set for Monday morning in a Houston-based federal district court, one day before Election Day. A rejection of the votes would constitute a monumental disenfranchisement of voters — drive-thru ballots account for about 10% of all in-person ballots cast during early voting in Harris County.

 

[zzyzxroad]

TX supreme court rejected their efforts.

Texas Supreme Court rejects Republican-led effort to throw out nearly 127,000 Harris County votes

A handful of GOP activists and candidates had asked the state's highest civil court to rule Harris County's drive-thru voting locations illegal and invalidate votes that have already been cast. The challenge has also been filed in federal court.

www.texastribune.org

Good to see.

 

[MrSquished]

Good to see.

They had to. As far as I read they approved it in the first place. But now a right wing partisan federal judge is taking the case on Monday I read

 

[BUTCH1]

Texas Supreme Court already told them to get lost so they're trying their luck with the Federal courts where they drew a very friendly judge.

TX SecState approved the method, the GOP here had input that was accepted, and there was agreement where the GOP promised not to sue. They waited until 100K votes were in to break the deal.

Yup, the strategy was wait till the last possible second, file the lawsuit and if these 127,000 people need to go back to the polls many will not get that message and many will not go due to legit Covid 19 fears.

 

[fskimospy]

Why is the response to Republicans acting to undermine democracy and the rule of law that someone more responsible will stop them?

It doesn’t matter if their suit is rejected. The fact that they attempted to invalidate the votes of 120,000 people because they think they won’t vote for them is abominable.

Remember how with Trump the argument was that more responsible people would reign him in? Now we have a quarter million dead, people boarding up their shops to protect them from election related violence, the president taking bribes from foreign countries, etc.

 

[Thump553]

The other day I was watching a documentary about India (India From Above). One of the segments was about India being the world's largest democracy (more populous than USA and the EU combined) and the extreme efforts they go to get every vote out. They establish a polling place, on average 1.x miles apart throughout the country. The segment showed a priest who was the only person who lived in a huge wildlife preserve. The government sent a vanload of election officials to his residence solely so he could vote. A publicity stunt, to be sure, but it certainly was a feel good story. Made me much prouder of a country on the other side of the globe than the one my family has been in since the Mayflower.

 

[ivwshane]

The other day I was watching a documentary about Indid (India From Above). One of the segments was about India being the world's largest democracy (more populous than USA and the EU combined) and the extreme efforts they go to get every vote out. They establish a polling place, on average 1.x miles apart throughout the country. The segment showed a priest who was the only person who lived in a huge wildlife preserve. The government sent a vanload of election officials to his residence solely so he could vote. A publicity stunt, to be sure, but it certainly was a feel good story. Made me much prouder of a country on the other side of the globe than the one my family has been in since the Mayflower.

It says a lot when others can do democracy better than us.

Par for the course for us though, America doesn’t do anything the best anymore. We’ve got half the country telling the other half how we aren’t allowed to do anything to make the country better and they do all they can to undermine our democracy to ensure it stays that way.

 

[theeedude]

How can an honorable person still be a Republican?

 

[sportage]

Honorable? The same republicans that cheer when Trump says lock them up? The same republicans that cheer when Trump makes fun of the handicapped? The same republicans that cheer when Trump makes fun of war heroes? Those honorable republicans???

 

[MrSquished]

How can an honorable person still be a Republican?

At this point any Trump supporter is willfully ignorant at best, and a piece of trash cultist at worst.

 

[soulcougher73]

How can an honorable person still be a Republican?

I think you know the answer. They are subhuman trash at this point.

 

[ElFenix]

steve hotze and jared woodfill are the two biggest pieces of shit in the city.

 

[Jhhnn]

I seriously doubt the challenge to drive thru voting in Texas can prevail, even with the most conservative judge. Overrule the Texas SCOTUS the day before the election over the definition of a polling place to discard 117,000 votes? On the basis of a brief that could have been submitted long before those votes were cast? Probably not. The judge may have called the hearing just to quash it, for all we know.

 

[eelw]

Where are the GOP defenders today? Haven't seen any in the few topics been looking at today

 

[MtnMan]

TX supreme court rejected their efforts.

Texas Supreme Court rejects Republican-led effort to throw out nearly 127,000 Harris County votes

A handful of GOP activists and candidates had asked the state's highest civil court to rule Harris County's drive-thru voting locations illegal and invalidate votes that have already been cast. The challenge has also been filed in federal court.

www.texastribune.org

Trump will make sure the SCOTUS handles it properly.

 

[Greenman]

Why is the response to Republicans acting to undermine democracy and the rule of law that someone more responsible will stop them?

It doesn’t matter if their suit is rejected. The fact that they attempted to invalidate the votes of 120,000 people because they think they won’t vote for them is abominable.

Remember how with Trump the argument was that more responsible people would reign him in? Now we have a quarter million dead, people boarding up their shops to protect them from election related violence, the president taking bribes from foreign countries, etc.

The short answer is that almost any government action can be challenged. Redress of grievance is what gives the private citizen some power over government. You choose to see it as a problem because you disagree with the grievance. Would you prefer that whichever party is in power does as they please without challenge?