Judge not buying Texas arguments against online voter registration
Posted on AllSides January 31st, 2020
From The Center
It only took a few days for the revived drive to expand the voter rolls in Texas to get back on track.
A civil rights group has been pushing litigation for four years alleging the second most populous state's voter registration rules violate federal law. And just three days after the first hearing in the latest iteration of the lawsuit, a federal judge in San Antonio signaled he may soon force the state to adopt new online registration practices.
District Judge Orlando Garcia said Texas had presented "no viable defense"...