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Monday 02 November 2020
In the tight race in Texas, these votes could be decisive: 120,000 ballots already cast, the validity of which Republican activists dispute. The highest court in the state orders them to count. But the dispute is not yet resolved.
Republicans in the US state of Texas suffered a legal setback shortly before the US presidential election. The Texas Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit filed by a conservative group led by activist Steve Hotze against the validity of more than 120,000 votes already cast in Harris County. This allows so-called “drive-throughs” in one of the largest electoral districts in the country, where voters can deposit their ballots in the corresponding ballot boxes from the car.
The legal dispute has not yet been resolved with the sentence. A federal court should decide Monday. Hotze and Texas Republican Congressman Steve Toth had filed suit. They accused Harris County officials of exceeding their constitutional authority. Due to the crown pandemic, they had allowed direct voting as an alternative.
Harris County is the third most populous county in the United States with approximately 4.7 million people. It currently has ten direct access polling stations that are available to all voters. The plaintiffs asked federal judge Andrew Hanen to “reject any vote they believe has violated Texas election law.”
Hanen was appointed by then-Republican President George W. Bush and is considered very conservative. The request was “completely unreasonable,” he said from the Democratic field. Republican President Donald Trump must fear for his office in the November 3 election. According to opinion polls, his challenger Joe Biden of the Democrats leads nationally. If Texas wins, you have a good chance of winning the election. More recently, the traditionally conservative state has seen a close race.
