Clowns To The Left Of Me, Jokers To The Right

Some facts about this Harris County drive thru voting suit:

1. The TX Sec of State approved Harris County doing this months ago.

2. It‘s been publicly posted for months that Harris County would have this.

3. The plaintiffs waited until after votes were cast to challenge it.

— Daniel Jacobson (@Dan_F_Jacobson) October 31, 2020

First, the clowns behind this lawsuit are the same clowns who sued the city of Houston to force the Texas GOP convention to be held in person in the midst of a raging pandemic in town at the time.

Putting aside the legal question of what the rules should be going forward, imagine trying to get a judge to throw out 100,000 ballots *already cast* by people who were just following the announced legal rules for voting. And asking for that 3 days before the voting will end. https://t.co/eL34oVK5ML

— Orin Kerr (@OrinKerr) October 31, 2020

Second: Orin Kerr is right, and Mark Joseph Stern never fails to go straight up and sideways whenever anything happens. He's as consistently wrong in his analysis as the clowns suing to knock out 100,000 votes in Harris County.  If his shadow was a lawuit he'd read about somewhere, he'd be constantly terrified of it.

Republican Texas State Rep, Sarah Davis, comes out against Texas' last minute push to unjustly disqualify 100,000 ballots in Harris County.

Country over party. https://t.co/D1BO0ZQdRH

— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) October 31, 2020

Third: Sarah Davis understands the harm this done to the integrity of the system, and to GOP votes.  There's no rule that said only Democratic voters could use drive through voting.  These clowns are shooting themselves in the foot, especially in local races where 100,000 votes may well determine who wins and who loses.

Fourth:  voter turnout in Harris County by Friday was nearly 2 million voters.  In that amount, 100,000 is a rounding error, at least on the Presidential level.  No, the ballots should not be thrown out.  But no, it won't make any difference, either.  Probably hurt GOP voters as much as Democratic voters.  And even if the federal judge decides to toss those votes, it will undoubtedly be suspended by the 5th circuit (too close to the election; even the ultra-conservatice 5th Circuit has made that ruling in ballot challenges in the past few weeks) and those votes will not be tossed summarily.  Nor should they be; but again, even if they are thrown out later (on the bizarre Kavanaugh-Rehnquist-8th Circuit notion that even the state can't agree to allow changes to election law, only the legislature can, or some other voter-suppression theory), it's 100,000 votes, in Harris County.  If the margin for Biden isn't far greater than that in this county alone, I'll eat my hat.