Texas LULAC v. Abbott (1:20-cv-1006), Straty v. Abbott (1:20-cv-1015), and Texas State Conference of NAACP Branches v. Abbott (1:20-cv-1024) (Robert Pitman, W.D. Tex.)
Because of the global infectious Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, Texas’s governor expanded the time period when voters could drop off absentee ballots. A subsequent order limited the number of drop-off locations to one per county. A district judge issued a preliminary injunction against the second order, but the court of appeals viewed it as part of the first order and therefore part of an expansion of voting opportunities.
Subject: Absentee and early voting. Topics: Absentee ballots; early voting; Covid-19; poll locations.
One of many Case Studies in Emergency Election Litigation.