Voter suppresion/"stealing the election" megathread

[Brittain33]

What is even the justification for this? These judges are absolute hacks.

Letter of the law + one Dropbox is better than zero. Equal protection, huh, never heard of it.

[Brittain33]

Texas limits by-mail early voting to:
   (1) Those over 65.
   (2) Those with disabilities.
   (3) Those who are incarcerated (non-felons awaiting trial in jail)
   (4) Those who will be outside the county for the entire early-voting period.

I'm actually way more mad about the 5th Circuit's (and I think at least one other circuit's) ruling on that. Drop boxes are at least debatable but that's a blatant violation of the plain text of the Constitution. The 26th Amendment was worded identically to the 15th Amendment, so it demands the same level of scrutiny that would be given to an explicit whites-only absentee voting law. (Though maybe I shouldn't expect that the court would stop that either.)

Texas has never had "drop boxes". A mail voter could take their ballot to the county clerk on election day, and after showing an ID, could hand deliver it. Most voters, like, mailed their mail ballot.

You'd think that if someone thought that the 26th Amendment was applicable, they would have filed suit in the past 48 years. I'm pretty sure someone would have filed suit against a mail ballot for whites-only before 1913, or a male-only mail (male?) ballot before 1968.

Texas could simply eliminate the dispensation for those over 65. Many elderly have mobility or other disabilities.

Perhaps this being the first election in a mass pandemic is a factor, Jim.

[Brittain33]

LOL, Charlie Kirk was suspended from Twitter for lying about the Pennsylvania issue as being about duplicate ballots, not ballot requests.

He elides terms like this all the time to stir up outrage, but now it’s too close to the election for Twitter to tolerate his shenanigans.

[Brittain33]

That’s all well and good but preventing GSA from signing off on a transition makes this a serious real decision and not theater.