News item: All-Republican Texas Supreme Court says fear of contracting coronavirus does not qualify a voter for mail- in ballot.
Breaking: Texas Supreme Court says lack of immunity to the coronavirus does not qualify a voter to apply for a mail in ballot #txlege— Alexa Ura (@alexazura) May 27, 2020
Texas Voters: As you stand in line to vote hopefully wearing a mask and not knowing whether the person next to you has COVID, remember why you are there and not at your kitchen table filling out your ballot.— bigroboski22 (@bigroboski22) May 27, 2020
It's like they didn't see what happened when they tried to steal an election in Wisconsin.— Fred Harding (@OPCGhost) May 28, 2020
Texas is going to be really close.
The turnout machines in Houston and Dallas will be on full bore, regardless of pandemic fears.
The fun thing about developments like this is that in more recent years, conservatives would mount some effort to pretend to believe there was some neutral principle underlying their nationwide efforts to steal elections, but now the line is basically "haha, fuck you. https://t.co/ZAAV0fIxcG— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) May 28, 2020
This won't stop here. There's a similar pending case in the Republican- dominated 5th Circuit Court of Appeals which will likely end up in the Republican Supreme Court, which will weigh in on the side of Republicans just as they did with the Wisconsin election in April. Which, hopefully, will have the same backlash effect it did in Wisconsin come November.
