Texas Secures Fifth Circuit Stay to Resume Vote Harvesting Probe

Texas can continue to investigate vote harvesting as a crime for at least another week, a split panel on the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit said Friday.

By a 2-1 vote, the panel granted Texas’s request to stay a trial court’s Sept. 28 order requiring Texas to cease all investigations into the practice of collecting absentee ballots from voters and delivering them to ballot boxes in exchange for compensation.

Judges James Ho and Cory Wilson favored the stay, with Judge Irma Ramirez opposed. The stay that allows Texas to investigate is in effect until Oct. 10, when ...