Texas doesn't have to tell voters if their mail-in ballots were rejected until after election

[ItsjustMe]

https://www.salon.com/2020/10/20/texas-doesnt-have-to-tell-voters-if-their-mail-in-ballots-were-rejected-until-after-election-court/

Afederal appellate court panel on Monday ruled that Texas neither has to give voters a chance to correct issues with their ballots nor inform them if a ballot was rejected until after the election.

The ruling allows election officials to reject ballots over mismatched signatures without allowing voters to correct the problem — or even notifying them of a pending rejection.

U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia ruled last month that the state's process for verifying signatures on mail-in ballots "plainly violates certain voters' constitutional rights" and was "inherently fraught with error with no recourse for voters." Garcia ordered the state to change its process, because the current one "fails to guarantee basic fairness."

A three-judge panel on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals stayed the order last month. It allowed the state on Monday to keep its current rules in place until it reviews the case after the election, according to The Texas Tribune.

Under the current rules, the state does not have any process to allow voters to correct their ballots and does not have to inform voters if a ballot was rejected until 10 days after the election.

[qazplm135]

1. considering only over 65 voters can generally vote mail in ballot

(with some exceptions) almost as likely to be Trump votes rejected.

[soothsayer]

3. Now THAT is funny

[jb5150]

4. You would think that would be the case .. but you would be wrong,

Every study done shows that minority mail in ballots are rejected at a much higher rate.

[qazplm135]

5. I'm talking about this particular situation

where you are limited to over 65. A significant portion of that vote will be White Trump voters, so a significant number of rejections will risk rejecting a White Trump voter.

The point being is it's not risk free to just indiscriminately reject mail in ballots in Texas for Trump.

[stopdiggin]

2. is this system new?

Or is this the same process that has been in place for previous elections?