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Texas procedure for ballots with mismatched signatures reinstated by federal court

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The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated Texas' voting rules that call for signatures on absentee ballots to be verified.

In a Monday order, the court blocked a U.S. District Court injunction, noting that the lower court's decision "minimize[d]" Texas' interest in election integrity, emphasizing the heightened need for security as greater numbers of mailed ballots raise the potential for fraud. "Because Texas’s strong interest in safeguarding the integrity of its elections from voter fraud far outweighs any burden the state’s voting procedures place on the right to vote, we stay the injunction pending appeal," Judge Jerry E.

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