Harris County raised the idea of drive-thru voting in June, and Texas Secretary of State Ruth Hughs promptly approved it.
Republicans alleged that the state Legislature has sole authority over election law under the U.S. Constitution. They also claimed that the Legislature never approved drive-thru voting. As a result, they argued, the procedure is an unconstitutional usurpation of the Legislature’s power, meaning every ballot cast via drive-thru voting is illegitimate.
Was the legal process for approving this method a usurpation of the Legislature’s power? It’s a good legal question?
I can drive up, park, get out of the car, walk to the polling place and drop my ballot in a drop box.
I can drive up, park, get out of the car, walk into the polling place and hand my ballot to an election official.
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I can not drive u, and hand my ballot to an election official.
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What the hell are these Texas Republicans thinking and why wait for 3-weeks after it starts to file a law suit.
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.WW, PSHS
If you do it that way, it doesn’t help you. You have to get them nullified, AFTER they vote. Otherwise all those americans would just vote another way.
Your right. It is. And despite being raised 2 days after ballots we being cast it was answered by the Texas Supreme Court.
A court of all Republicans deemed it went thru the legal requirements.
You can hand deliver ballots to election officials. Which is what was occurring here.
There is no difference in walking into a polling site and handing it to a worker and driving up to a polling site and handing it to a worker.
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This was already challenged in the State court and was rejected.
The people who voted this way did so with the understanding that it was all good and legal.
They are seeking to retroactively dissenfranchise the vote.
This is something that I think that we should all agree that it isn’t the fault of the people casting their vote in this way and to silence their voice is not how this country should work.
I read that…and can’t say I disagree but then I read further regarding this technicality of the Legislature? Was this brought up and a decision made regarding this, specifically? How ever the courts determine is the correct outcome, I’m fine with. I just want everything legal.