Masks now required for voting

[03Lightningrocks]

And if I don't, since its a federal judge's order, will the FBI come after me?

Not so much a federal judge’s order as it is an invalidation of a section in the governor’s mandate. The judge is not mandating masks, rather he is claiming one of the gov’s exemptions puts an extra burden on P(s)OC.

I hope the judge can explain to all of us how NOT requiring something is a burden on anyone. I could see how requiring masks is a burden, but exempting people from it? That makes no sense.

Even more challenging is trying to figure out how it only places that additional burden on black and Latino voters, but Asian, white, and all others are unaffected

That is a propaganda point they started firing up a couple months ago when they started the stories of how the black community was unfairly being targeted over whites by Covid. Statistics can be used to determine many different "factors". Dems chose this one to make out like blacks should be more afraid of Covid than whites. Instill that fear and then offer Biden as a solution. Same game, different issue.

[Pawpaw]

Dallas Fox 4 just reported this has been overturned by a Federal Appeals Court.

Masks not required for voting.

[Lynyrd]

The 5th Circuit Court overturned the ruling. Masks are not required, as of today. Tomorrow? Who knows.

https://www.texastribune.org/2020/10/28 ... sk-abbott/

[der Teufel]

I voted in Collin county. They had a sign that said masks required. So I walk up to the poll worker with mask on and hand him my ID. He was behind plexiglass and also wearing a mask. He took my DL and without even looking at me ran it through computer and set me up. I could have been anyone using a fake ID and I rolled right through.…

I've worked as a poll worker before. There's really no attempt to match the person to the photo. If the OCR code on the license scans, it gets entered. If they present a LTC the address gets entered and if it matches, they vote. Same for other types of ID. The only real check is that whomever is registered at that address only gets to vote once. Yes, if someone else took the ID and came in to vote, they probably wouldn't get caught. But, there are no extra votes being cast.

So a daughter could very possibly take her mother's ID and vote. It would be wrong, but those types of activities aren't the things keeping most people awake at night. Collecting absentee ballots at senior centers or nursing homes worries me much more than someone wearing a mask to vote in person.

[Rafe]

I voted last night - my first presidential election, woohoo.

Thank you, Mr. C!

[TxRVer]

I voted last night - my first presidential election, woohoo.

And yes, everyone was masked - other than foggy glasses, it didn't bother me.

Congratulations!

[Paladin]

Coronavirus hospitalizations are up in Texas. Is state headed toward another surge?

DFW hospitals are filling up. No overflow facilities have been activated. I wore my N95 mask voting.

[ScottDLS]

And if I don't, since its a federal judge's order, will the FBI come after me?

Not so much a federal judge’s order as it is an invalidation of a section in the governor’s mandate. The judge is not mandating masks, rather he is claiming one of the gov’s exemptions puts an extra burden on P(s)OC.

I hope the judge can explain to all of us how NOT requiring something is a burden on anyone. I could see how requiring masks is a burden, but exempting people from it? That makes no sense.

Even more challenging is trying to figure out how it only places that additional burden on black and Latino voters, but Asian, white, and all others are unaffected

Aren’t people of Asian descent “of colors” too? Particularly South Asian. How about Greeks? Southern Italians? What about “White” Hispanics like George Zimmerman. Do we go by the one drop rule like the pre-civil rights era South? My abuela was Mexican...not Mexican American, she was born in Mexico and immigrated (legally) 40 years later she was naturalized and became Mexican American. So am I colored too? Is it a burden on me to exempt persons of pallor (POPs or palloreds) from wearing a mask because my grandma had a Spanish accent? So many unanswered questions.