Texas Drive-Through Votes Survive GOP Lawsuit to Toss Them
- Court finds Republican activists lack standing to bring suit
- Appeal vowed; at stake are 127,000 ballots in new battleground
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A federal judge rejected an effort to invalidate 127,000 votes in the most populous county in Texas, a ruling that Republican activists said they would immediately appeal.
“For lack of a nicer way of saying it, I ain’t buying it,” U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen said at a hearing on Monday. He denied the request to throw out drive-through ballots in Harris County because the Republicans lacked standing to bring the case, but didn’t rule on its underlying merits.