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In Texas, 127,000 drive-in votes are counted despite Republican protests, a judge says. Even in Nevada, Republicans suffer a loss in court over the electoral process.
A protester holds a banner in front of the courthouse in Houston, Texas.
Several conservative politicians had sued to reject the decision to allow voting in a dozen places in Houston, an area where Democrats are strong in the traditional Republican state of Texas. The ability to vote without getting out of the car was introduced to reduce the risk of spreading the infection during the corona pandemic.
The Texas Supreme Court has previously rejected similar attempts by, among others, the Republican Party in the state to stop drive-in movies.
Hundreds of similar disputes over the electoral process ended in the courts before the US elections. In general, Democrats have tried to facilitate voting by mail and other alternatives to appearing in person at the polls, while President Donald Trump and Republicans have warned of the dangers of voter fraud.
Another dispute was resolved Monday in Nevada, where a judge ruled that the vote count in Las Vegas was correct. The verdict is a setback for Republicans who wanted the procedure rejected.
The protests were filed by the Trump campaign, the Nevada Republican Party and a single voter on October 23. They claimed that the vote count was surrounded by various problems. Among other things, the election observers must not have been able to monitor the procedure and the ballots must have been handled improperly. But Judge James Wilson says the complainants have not been able to show that the handling involved or will result in inaccuracies in the vote count.
The protests took place in Clark County, the largest county in the state where the city of Las Vegas is located. President Donald Trump is chasing Democratic candidate Joe Biden in Nevada, one of a dozen states that can decide Tuesday’s presidential election.
