Texas Can Keep Investigating Alleged Vote Harvesting (1)

Texas can continue to investigative vote harvesting as a crime through at least the November election because an injunction handed down by a lower court fell too close to that date, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit said Tuesday.

By a unanimous vote, a three-judge panel extended a temporary stay of a trial court’s September order requiring Texas to stand down in investigations into the practice of gathering absentee ballots from voters and delivering them to ballot boxes in exchange for compensation.

The judges criticized the timing of the lower court’s injunction, noting that it came three ...