There's probably no statute about multiple people in a vehicle because there has never been drive thru voting. The rule that applies is the same as what applies to a voting booth. Only the voter can be in the booth, unless they need assistance and that's covered in the laws. I saw that information in a news story about Abbott's fight against drive through voting.Rafe wrote: ↑Tue Oct 27, 2020 2:24 pmDoes anyone know of a link to a statute, regulation, or ruling about not having more than one person per vehicle for drive-through voting? Google ain't helping me much, and if that law exists I'd really like to find it. The AG's October 16 letter, "Elections Guidance Letter on Drive-Thru Voting," doesn't mention vehicle occupancy, and neither does anything I can find in the Election Code, Title 4, Chapter 43.puma guy wrote: ↑Tue Oct 27, 2020 12:30 pm I didn't know at the time it was a violation for us both to be in the vehicle. The poll worker took a long time to re-do my wife's log in and while we waited I noticed an SUV in the next lane with four people in it and they all appeared to have voted. At the time I didn't give it a second though, but now it seems very disturbing and I see why Abbott is concerned.
If we have to proceed to voting booths individually, then loading up an SUV with five people to vote while sitting together in the same vehicle just, well, it don't seem no way right. My Montgomery County poll-working friend says she's dealt with 5 in vehicle, and even though she was charged with doing each person one at a time--from taking the DL inside to verify, to taking the voter receipt with number and the voting device out to the vehicle and observing while the vote was completed, to bringing the device back inside to upload the results--there's no way any worker could monitor the vehicle the whole time and the occupants could simply be passing around the same voting "cheat sheet" to make sure they're all voting exactly the same way. Worse, it sure seems like it would be about five times easier for someone to use a false ID for voter fraud if they're sitting down in a vehicle and dealing with just one poll worker who has to take the ID inside to do the sign-in.
Too, she said that a 5-person vehicle--with all the trips back and forth into the building--took altogether a little over an hour and she couldn't do anything but deal with that single vehicle during that time. Seems like a massive drain on available poll worker time, taking a worker out of the loop who could otherwise be helping usher far more than five people through the process.
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My wife and I both voted very early with the drive through option in Pasadena. I didn't know at the time it was a violation for us both to be in the vehicle. The poll worker took a long time to re-do my wife's log in and while we waited I noticed an SUV in the next lane with four people in it and they all appeared to have voted. At the time I didn't give it a second though, but now it seems very disturbing and I see why Abbott is concerned.clarionite wrote: ↑Tue Oct 27, 2020 12:08 pm https://www.foxnews.com/politics/poll-w ... dodV6x3XDg
There's no voter fraud right?