This is an important read with one small caveat. As @AmyEGardner notes in her piece, the Anderson-Burdick balancing test is typically the framework for evaluating the general constitutionality of election procedures.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
However, in 2020, many circuit courts of appeal, including the 5th, began treating McDonald v. Board of Election Commissioners of Chicago, not Anderson-Burdick, as the precedent for review of absentee voting rules. McDonald is more deferential, making it easier for states to win.
The 5th Circuit, for example, invoked McDonald and a more deferential "rational basis" test to uphold Texas's law limiting absentee voting to those aged 65 and older or those with specific medical conditions despite the fact that the election was conducted amid #COVID19.
In short, if McDonald continues to be the relevant precedent for review of voting absentee voting rules, any mail voting rules enacted through SB 7 will likely be harder to successfully challenge in court.
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