A federal appeals court on Aug. 12 overturned a lower court ruling and restored nine provisions of Texas’s 2021 election law, largely because the challengers lacked standing under two federal laws.
Standing means a party has to have a real stake in the case. A party has to show that a law actually harms it or is likely to harm it in a specific way, that the harm comes from the law itself, and that a victory in court would fix it.
The Texas law, known as S.B. 1 or the Election Protection and Integrity Act, was passed after the 2020 elections with the aim of enhancing election security, especially for mail-in voting and ballot harvesting. Ballot harvesting is the practice of gathering completed absentee ballots from voters and delivering them to election offices or polling places….
Federal Appeals Court Affirms Texas Limits on Mail Voting and Assistance
