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Topline
Texas’s Supreme Court on Sunday denied a Republican-backed petition to discount nearly 127,000 early votes cast using drive-thru lanes in the Democratic-leaning Harris County, home to Houston, in what many criticized as attempted voter disenfranchisement.
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Key Facts
Republican legislator Steven Hotze and three other members of the GOP filed a last-minute petition with the state Supreme Court seeking to have votes made through the state’s drive thru program declared illegal.
The plaintiffs argued that the expansion of drive-thru voting sites is an illegal expansion of curbside voting in Texas’s most populous—and largely Democratic—county.
The all-Republican court denied the petition on Sunday afternoon with no order or opinion.
The plaintiffs are pursuing a similar lawsuit at a federal court in Houston, for which there is a hearing set for Monday morning.
The Texas Supreme Court has also rejected two other Republican-led efforts last week that aimed to shut down drive-thru voting.
Chief Critic
“They are a disgrace to our state and our country. They are so afraid of losing this election because Texans are rising up,” Texas Democratic Party spokesman Abhi Rahman told the Austin American-Statesman.
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