5th Circuit Unsurprisingly Stops District Court Order That Would Have Reimposed Straight Ticket Voting in November’s Election in Texas

Here’s the order.

When the district court issued its order I was quite surprised there was no focus on trying to implement this so close to the election. As the appeals court wrote: “Finally, given that thousands of ballots without straight-ticket voting have already been mailed in accordance with a law that was passed three years ago and the immense difficulty described by the Secretary of managing an election with different sets of ballots for in-person and mail-in voting, the public interest weighs heavily in favor of issuing the stay.”

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