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Federal court upholds Texas' ban on paid ballot harvesting
The appeals court ruled the ban is narrowly tailored to protect election integrity by prohibiting paid ballot collectors, a key provision in Texas’s 2021 Senate Bill 1.
- On Thursday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld Texas's ban on paid ballot harvesting, reversing a lower court and allowing enforcement of Senate Bill 1.
- Citing election integrity, the court accepted that Texas argued paid political operatives pressure voters, and the statute excludes unpaid volunteers to advance election integrity and prevent intimidation and fraud.
- The panel rejected plaintiffs' vagueness claims, stating challengers failed the threshold test and jurors can understand terms like 'compensation' and 'physical presence', as U.S. Circuit Judge Edith Jones wrote.
- Practically, the ruling means Texas officials can now enforce the ban, celebrated by the RNC and Texas officials after the October 2024 decision paused the lower court ruling.
- With March 23 set for Watson v. RNC arguments, the Fifth Circuit's ruling will influence similar laws in roughly a dozen states ahead of the midterm elections later this year.
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Court gives election integrity supporters huge victory * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh
Source link A ballot harvester in Georgia. A three-judge panel on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has given a huge victory to election integrity supporters. Its ruling said Texas is allowed to ban paid political vote harvesting. “The Supreme Court has long recognized that ‘a state has a compelling interest in protecting voters from confusion
Texas's ban on ballot harvesting upheld by appeals court
A federal appeals court ruled that a Texas law banning ballot harvesting is constitutional, reversing a lower court’s ruling and handing the Lone Star State a key victory for one of its major election integrity laws. A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled in favor of Texas over the portion of Senate Bill 1, a 2021 law with various election provisions, that banned paid canvassers from submitting mail-in ballo…
Appeals Court Upholds Texas Ban on Ballot Harvesting
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has upheld Texas’s ban on paid ballot harvesting, reversing a lower court decision that had struck down the election-integrity safeguard. The post Appeals Court Upholds Texas Ban on Ballot Harvesting appeared first on Slay News.
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