BREAKING: Judge Won’t Toss Houston-Area Votes

NPR reports:

U.S. District Court Judge Andrew Hanen today threw out a suit challenging the legality of some 127,000 votes cast at drive-through voting sites in the Houston area. He ruled the plaintiffs don’t have legal standing to sue.

Harris County, Texas’ most populous county, and majority-Democratic, erected ten tents to expedite the early voting process, as a way of allowing people to vote safely during the coronavirus pandemic. They were also in place this summer, prior to the state’s primary.

Noting that, Judge Hanen, a George W. Bush appointee, asked plaintiffs “Why am I just getting this case?” The suit was brought by a group of Republican activists, who argued the move by Harris County Clerk Chris Hollins, a Democrat, was an illegal expansion of curbside voting, which is permitted under Texas law.

PHOTO: Plaintiff and anti-LGBT activist Steve Hotze.