Appeals court rejects Texas Democrats bid to expand mail-in voting

A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday rejected the Texas Democratic Party’s efforts to expand mail-in voting in the state, siding with the state’s Republican leadership. Texas Democrats were seeking to expand mail-in voting to all registered voters based on the argument that the state’s age restrictions for such voting violate the 26th Amendment’s protections against voting rules that discriminate based on…