Reach out to us via one of our tip line channels. If you have a news tip, we’d like to hear from you. The state court didn’t release a written opinion explaining its decision to leave the votes intact but had rejected another challenge to drive-thru voting in Harris County earlier this month. The hearing took place one day after the Texas Supreme Court rejected an effort by the same Texas Republicans to invalidate the nearly 127,000 votes cast at drive-thru locations throughout the county. Hanen ordered the county to preserve voting records from the drive-thru voting locations just in case there was more litigation over those ballots in the future.
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But he said the election code had different rules about what qualified as a polling location on Election Day, and he didn’t think the drive-through tents that Harris County set up would satisfy those requirements.
“I’m not necessarily happy with that finding,” said Hanen, a conservative-leaning member of the court, explaining that he thought standing was a closer call for Wendell Champion, the congressional candidate who joined the lawsuit.Įven if the 5th Circuit reversed Hanen and found the plaintiffs had standing to bring the case, the judge said he would still deny a request to invalidate ballots cast at drive-thru sites during the state’s early voting period, finding the sites complied with state election law for early voting. He indicated that it was a close call for one of the plaintiffs, the congressional candidate, but that in the end, the challengers failed to show a specific enough harm to their interests. The judge tossed the case Monday after finding that the challengers - a group that included a Republican congressional candidate and registered Republican voters - lacked standing to sue Harris County over how officials were handling the election.
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