Poopie Del Pollo
We have a decision on the drive-through voting.
The legal term for this is Poopie del Pollo. The judge heard all the evidence this morning, said he would have a ruling in 15 – 20 minutes. Left the courtroom and didn’t come back for over a hour. I guess Bill Barr wasn’t picking up the phone in a timely manner.
(The following was corrected in the comments. I was 100% wrong. I have too many damn writ twits looking over my shoulder. LOL.)
The world is watching.
The NY Times today published an opinion piece:
‘It’s Like You Want to Stop People From Voting’: How U.S. Elections Look Abroad
1I think you have the snide comment wrong. From what I read of it, he said he would NOT invalidate the ballots and would consider the drive-up voting as using an approved structure.
“Hanen says that if the 5th Circuit reverses and says the plaintiffs do have standing, he’d then deny an injunction to invalidate ballots already cast at drive-thru sites — he would find that the voting sites count as structures under state election law.”
2The world is also laughing.
We, the ‘champion of free elections,’ can’t run an election any better than gerbals. It’s pathetic.
3Dan, I read it again and I think you may be right, but I’m sure my mistake comes from not trusting this guy. Nobody does.
“The bottom line here is that the 127,000+ drive-thru votes during early voting are safe, but Harris County voters planning to drive-thru vote tomorrow may want to consider alternative arrangements—not because those votes are definitely going to be thrown out, but just to be safe.” https://twitter.com/steve_vladeck/status/1323367204080001024
4Dan is correct; Judge Hanen said that he would uphold the already-cast votes even if the plaintiffs had standing, but would not uphold drive-thru votes cast on Election Day. I took the comment you cited to mean that he disagreed with the Fifth Circuit’s jurisprudence on standing, but had to follow it.
5An “approved voting structure” doesn’t suddenly become invalid on election day. However, I will take my victories as they are given and thank Judge Hanen.
6There’s a word for that kind of judicial pretzel-twisting: pretextualism.
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