FiveThirtyEight
Nathaniel Rakich

Another day, another late-night court ruling. Just now, the Texas Supreme Court ruled in favor of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s executive order that counties may have only one ballot drop site each — reversing a lower court ruling that had said counties could set up multiple drop sites. Voting-rights advocates had been pushing for more drop sites in large counties like Harris and Travis, which are home to millions of people (many of them Democrats).


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