Texas Supreme Court blocks Houston elections officials from sending mail-in ballot applications.

The Supreme Court of Texas ruled that Houston voters cannot receive unsolicited Mail-Ballot Application for the 2020 Presidential Election.

The Supreme Court of Texas ruled that Houston voters cannot receive unsolicited Mail-Ballot Application for the 2020 Presidential Election.After a legal petition filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on behalf of the state of Texas, the court ruled that the election code does not authorize an early-voting clerk to send an application to vote by mail to a voter who has not requested one and that a clerk doing so results in irreparable injury to the state. According to the Texas Supreme Court, Texas election law prohibits county clerks from sending out unsolicited mail-in ballot applications to the registered voters.

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