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Obama Appointee Judge Blocks Texas Voting Law as Favor to Texas Democrats

Late yesterday, in a stunning display of naked partisanship, Federal District Judge Marina Garcia Marmolejo in Texas — appointed by Pres. Obama in 2011 — granted a preliminary injunction in favor of Democrat party interest groups that could have a significant impact on the upcoming election — which she acknowledges in her opinion.

The naked, bottom line of the allegations set forth in the civil complaint filed in the case is this:

Changes in Texas election law passed by the Texas Legislature and signed by the Governor of Texas in 2017, which went into effect on September 1, 2020, will result in fewer votes being cast for Texas Democrat candidates for office, therefore the Texas law should be blocked from being used in the upcoming national general election.

It’s just that simple.

What are the changes to Texas law that are at the heart of this controversy?

Among a very small number of states, Texas election law provided for a ballot entry that allowed voters to vote a “straight ticket” of all candidates for a particular party on the ballot, without having to individually make a choice for each particular candidate in each race. The voters could mark their support for all of the candidates of either party by simply picking a “straight-ticket option” at the top of a ballot. This option was eliminated by an amendment to the Texas election law in 2017. Candidates will still be listed with their party affiliation, but voters will have to select each candidate individually.

Elimination of this option by legislation in 2017 met intense opposition from Democrats who feared the change would be most felt among voters of color and lead to voter drop-off, particularly in urban counties that have the longest ballots in the state. Texas Republican lawmakers championed a change during the 2017 legislative session, arguing it would force voters to make more informed decisions because they would have to make a decision on every race on a ballot. Implementation of the legislation was set almost three years into the future to provide time for public education about the change, and allow Texas state election officials to plan for implementing the change, but in time for this year’s general election.

In June, Judge Marmolejo dismissed a similar challenge to the same law, finding that the Plaintiffs in that action had not alleged in the complaint filed by them sufficiently “definite” injury that would be suffered if the law was allowed to go into effect on September 1, 2020, as set forth in the legislation.

Even though her decision in June acknowledged the effects of the COVID 19 pandemic on voting during the March primary elections — longer lines and longer waiting times at polling places, etc., — she did not find in June that the pandemic was a basis to block the changes in Texas election law from going into effect.

But in true blue “social justice warrior” fashion yesterday, flying her “wokeness” flag high and proud, Judge Marmolejo presaged her change of heart on the question with the following preamble in her decision.

So, for purposes of her ruling, she basically found that the Plaintiffs would be able to prove that poor, dumb, minority voters living in poverty and without jobs or childcare, who would certainly vote for EVERY Democrat candidate if the “Straight Ticket” option were on the ballot, will not be able to make individualized selections in each race on the ballot, and the lines of these poor dumb minority Democrat voters will be too long on election day which means that other poor dumb minority voters at the end of the long lines will either leave and not vote, or won’t vote in all the races listed on the ballot as they would if they still had the option to vote for EVERY Democrat on the ballot by just marking one square —- AND the harm in all that is the Democrat candidates on the ballot will receive fewer votes.

Got that? Go read it for yourselves.

https://www.redstate.com/shipwreckedcrew/2020/09/26/obama-appointee-judge-blocks-texas-voting-law-as-favor-to-texas-democrats/