Two legal challenges to Texas’s restrictions on voting by mail are now in the federal and state judicial systems
Texas keeps fighting the kind of broad access to voting by mail other states deem normal. Photo: George Frey/Getty Images In the latest, and most dramatic, stage of the battle between voting rights advocates and Texas Republicans battling to restrict voting by mail, a federal judge in San Antonio has agreed that Texas’s statute allowing voters over 65 to cast absentee ballots denied to younger voters violates the 26th amendment’s ban on age discrimination at the ballot box.
Days after a two-hour preliminary injunction hearing in San Antonio, U.S. District Judge Fred Biery agreed with individual Texas voters and the Texas Democratic Party that voters would face irreparable harm if existing age eligibility rules for voting by mail remain in place for elections held while the coronavirus remains in wide circulation. Under his order, which will surely be appealed, voters under the age of 65 who would ordinarily not qualify for a mail-in ballot would now be eligible.
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