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Excerpt: "This month, a federal judge struck down a decree from Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas limiting each county in the state to a single drop box to handle the surge in absentee ballots this election season, rejecting Mr. Abbott's argument that the limit was necessary to combat fraud."

A drive-through voting station in Houston on Friday. Gov. Greg Abbott put in place a policy that limits each county in the state to a single drop box. (photo: Go Nakamura/NYT)
A drive-through voting station in Houston on Friday. Gov. Greg Abbott put in place a policy that limits each county in the state to a single drop box. (photo: Go Nakamura/NYT)


Federal Appeals Courts Emerge as Crucial for Trump in Voting Cases

By Jim Rutenberg and Rebecca R. Ruiz, The New York Times

18 October 20


Federal district courts have tended to rule for Democrats in litigation over how to run the election, but appeals courts, well stocked with the president’s nominees, are blocking them.

his month, a federal judge struck down a decree from Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas limiting each county in the state to a single drop box to handle the surge in absentee ballots this election season, rejecting Mr. Abbott’s argument that the limit was necessary to combat fraud.

Days later, an appellate panel of three judges appointed by President Trump froze the lower court order, keeping Mr. Abbott’s new policy in place — meaning Harris County, with more than two million voters, and Wheeler County, with well under 4,000, would both be allowed only one drop box for voters who want to hand-deliver their absentee ballots and avoid reliance on the Postal Service.

The Texas case is one of at least eight major election disputes around the country in which Federal District Court judges sided with civil rights groups and Democrats in voting cases only to be stayed by the federal appeals courts, whose ranks Mr. Trump has done more to populate than any president in more than 40 years.

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