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Robert Reich
Oct. 13, 2020
In a late-night ruling yesterday, a federal appeals court comprised of three Trump judges upheld Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s proclamation limiting counties to one ballot drop-off location, overturning a lower court’s ruling. That means that the 2.4 million voters in Harris County, which spans nearly 2,000 square miles, will have just a single location at which to drop off their ballot. Abbott claimed that the proclamation was necessary to prevent “voter fraud,” but has not provided a single piece of evidence that multiple ballot drop-offs would create opportunities for fraud. 82-year-old Ralph Edelbach, who sued the state over the order, said that providing just one drop-off location will force him to spend nearly an hour and a half round trip to deliver his ballot.
Now think of all the voters who are disabled, who can’t afford to take time off of work to drive hours to drop off their ballot, or who don’t have access to transportation that will take them that far. This is deliberate voter suppression, plain and simple. It’s absurd that one party has made suppressing the vote a key pillar of their ideology. But don’t get disheartened about Republicans’ anti-democratic tactics: if your vote didn’t matter, they wouldn’t be trying so hard to suppress it.
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