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This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateEarly voting in Texas will still begin in six days as planned and mail ballots can be dropped off in person in the days preceding the election after the from the state’s Republican Party and other conservatives seeking to roll back Gov. Greg Abbott’s executive order on the matter.Abbott had extended the early voting period, as he did during the July primary runoff, to make for less crowded polls and a safer experience for voters during the pandemic. Early voting in the election starts Tuesday and concludes on Oct. 30. Election day is Nov. 3.In the ruling on Wednesday, with Justice John Devine dissenting and Justice Jimmy Blacklock dissenting in part, the justices said the legal challenge was filed too late and any changes now would create voter confusion.BACKGROUND:“The election is already underway,” Chief Justice Nathan Hecht wrote. “The Harris County Clerk has represented to the Court that his office would accept mailed-in ballots beginning September 24. To disrupt the long-planned election procedures as (the plaintiffs) would have us do would threaten voter confusion.”Attorneys for the Republicans did not immediately respond to a request for comment.In his dissent, Devine argued that Republicans “acted diligently” because they filed their petition four days after they received an email confirming that the Harris County Clerk was to comply with the governor’s early voting order. But in the majority opinion, Hecht wrote that the legal challenge was not about the clerk’s compliance, but rather the validity of the proclamation.The Texas Democratic Party, which has criticized past decisions from the high court that limited access to mail-voting in the election, nonetheless cheered the ruling on Wednesday.“It represents the bare minimum step to help keep voters safe, but this is still the Texas Supreme Court that has ruled time and time again to stop the rising Texas electorate from exercising their right to vote safely in the middle of a pandemic,” said spokesman Abhi Rahman.taylor.goldenstein@chron.com

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateEarly voting in Texas will still begin in six days as planned and mail ballots can be dropped off in person in the days preceding the election after the from the state’s Republican Party and other conservatives seeking to roll back Gov. Greg Abbott’s executive order on the matter.Abbott had extended the early voting period, as he did during the July primary runoff, to make for less crowded polls and a safer experience for voters during the pandemic. Early voting in the election starts Tuesday and concludes on Oct. 30. Election day...

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