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30 Oct, 7 tweets, 2 min read
Texas Supreme Court asks Harris County to respond, by 4 p.m. today, to a challenge by GOP candidates/activist/House member that seeks to void tens of thousands of Harris County drive-thru votes.
Background:
statesman.com/news/20201028/…
There is no way of knowing how many justices really want this info.
It only takes 1 justice to request a response.
And Justice Devine has previously written a dissent to the dismissal of earlier challenges to Harris County's drive-thru voting sites. Nobody joined the dissent.
Been giving this some thought.
It would take a monumental leap of logic (illogic?) for the Texas Supreme Court to invalidate over 117,000 votes cast in drive-thru polling places in Harris County.

Bear with me:
The court rejected 2 GOP-let bids to shut down drive-thru voting last Friday. By then, about 75,000 votes had been cast from cars.
More than 42,000 new drive-thru votes have been cast since.
Neither of those 2 GOP challenges sought to eliminate votes.
Now the court is being asked to toss out 117,000+ votes, including 42,000 cast since the court COULD have acted but DID NOT.
It would take an incredible leap in logic for the court to invalidate 42,000 "illegal" votes that were cast due to the court's failure to act last week.
That said, I'm watching this case like crazy, because all these voters trusted their government -- executive and judiciary -- to protect their votes.

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1 Nov
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Denial is without comment.
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Concurring opinion by Justice Guzman: txcourts.gov/media/1449967/…
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