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Lisa Morris talks about her mother, Gloria Meeks, who faced an investigation by the Texas Attorney General’s Office in 2006 for assisting elderly voters with their mail-in ballots during election season.
Then, in August 2006, investigators with the Texas Attorney General’s Office arrived at Meeks’ house. She was drying off from a bath when two male inspectors looked in through her bathroom window, according to a signed declaration. She screamed, and they waited outside to interview her until she got dressed.
She was never charged.
Already, because of a voter photo ID law, a lack of online registration and a reduction of 750 polling places in recent years, Texas has fallen from just outside the top 10 in ease of voting in 1996 to 45th, according to an Election Law Journal study. And the refusal to expand mail-in voting puts Texas at further odds with the vast majority of the country — states that are as demographically and politically different as South Carolina and New York. Going into this year, 34 states allowed for anyone to use mail-in ballots. Of the remaining 16, all but Texas, Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana have made exceptions to expand vote by mail in 2020 elections because of the pandemic. … Read More