The Texas Supremes
God works in mysterious ways, and I can prove it.
The Texas Supreme Court is about to hear a fight between people who have brains on one side and the Texas Governor and Attorney General on the other. It’s a real clear cut line.
The right to vote by mail if you are afraid of catching a deadly disease while voting in person is being challenged. It’s been upheld by district courts and one federal court but Republicans took it to the Texas Supreme Court because every damn justice on the Texas Supreme Court is a snake oil Republican. Every. Damn. One.
In Texas you can vote by mail if you are over 65, will be out of the county during early voting and election day, are residing in a county jail awaiting trail, or are disabled. Texas does not define disabled. In Texas, you are disabled if you say you are disabled.
The run-off election is July 14 and early voting will begin July 6.
Everybody knows the Republican Coven of a Supreme Court we have in Texas will rule for extremely long lines to vote on new machines that no one has used before. Yesterday, they stayed the decision of a lower court.
And then … then …
The little print says, “We began to exhibit symptoms last week, despite diligently complying with stay-at-home rules,” the justice wrote.
Justice Debra Lehrmann and her husband both got the virus.
Now it gets interesting.
Lehrmann’s doctor has told her that it takes at least 10 days to recover from the coronavirus but that she must track how she feels and be symptom-free for three days before being sure that the virus is gone. She is now on her 10th day of having the virus, and her husband is on his 11th day, she said. But they’ve both measured a fever this week, which means the infection is still there.
Thank you, Madam Karma.
1thatotherjean @1, Madame Karma is feeling a little weak after being used and abused. The ultimate insult to her was going to all the trouble of shooting Steve Scalise in the ass, and ultimately being ignored.
Most of us do not require being shot to know guns hurt, guns kill. But a conservative covidiot taking a direct hit from COVID-19 change their mind? Nope. Don’t expect that. They are not logical. They are st00pid to the nth degree of stubborn and will grasp FREEDUMB until the day they’re planted in the ground. Half expect them to grumble long after they stop breathing.
2You’re assuming she was planning on voting. Not sure that’s a given.
3I’ve sent off for my mail in ballot application for me and my son. This will be the first time we’ve voted by mail. I’m a little concerned about how this works. Will I know if my vote is counted? If our right to send in a mail in vote is questioned, will we have some opportunity to respond to those questions? If the number of mail in ballots goes up, are the repubs going to try to toss all the newbies? Thanks for any answers!
4Hypocritical justice heard oral arguments over Zoom while she was sick with the virus.
Not only that, her whole family is infected, according to the article linked above at Law (dot) com.
5James@5: yup, they got ill after a “little get-together for Mother’s Day”. But she’s been practicing social distancing.
That is the ultimate conservative mindset in a nutshell – able to claim two opposite things as the truth, when at most one of them can hold.
Also: she is “grateful for our thoughts and prayers”. If that lady knew what thoughts we have about her, she’d recoil in horror.
6Well, now that she’s had COVID, this voting question is not important. After all, SHE’S absolutely certain she’s now immune [though the CDC isn’t] so SHE will be able to vote — and that’s all that matters.
P.S. What do you want to bet that she gets an absentee ballot because she’s entitled due to her yuppity-yup position in the govmint. All the rest of you can go suck wind.
7Lyntilla @ 4:
Where are you located?
I’ve voted absentee in Florida ever since I moved. This is how it works here — you might check your state’s or county’s website:
After mailing in your ballot, you can wait a week or so, then call the county to be sure it was received and counted.
So far, the call-in method has worked fine for me. I get a polite greeting from the worker who is more than happy to look up my ballot and make certain it was counted.
I had had some concerns about my signature in the past — couldn’t recall exactly how I had signed some years earlier. So I re-registered and, while I was about it, photographed my signature on the form — for future reference. So, before signing the back of the envelope, I check that photo to be absolutely certain I’m signing identically in re handwriting, did I include middle initial, etc.
Hope that helps.
8P.S. to Lyntillla @4:
Oh, and if you discover that your vote WASN’T counted, you can find out why and request a second ballot and correct any error that caused the glitch.
The time between mail-in ballots being received [and mailed in if you act promptly] and election day is enough to take care of such matters.
So much so, aamof, that my vote for Warren in the primary didn’t count. She dropped out between the time I voted and election day. Well, dang.
9It’s also noteworthy that conservatives only whinge about mail voting when it’s a state that could be close in an election.
Here in Nebraska we’ve had mandatory mail voting in rural areas and no-excuse mail voting in urban areas longer than Washington or Oregon, and how many Republicans have you heard complain about us?
Oh that’s right, this is a pretty safe state for Republicans, so the system is working as designed here.
10I’m in Austin, TX. Thanks, twocrows! I asked here because I’m pretty sure Juanita Jean is an expert.
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