Ballot Order

<p>A federal court <strong><a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/texasballotorder.pdf">dismissed</a></strong> a case against the Texas Secretary of State brought by a voter and the state’s Democratic Party, which challenged a state election law governing the order in which candidates appear on the ballot. The plaintiffs had asked the court to require the state to use a ballot order system that would have given major party candidates an “equal opportunity to be listed first on the ballot.”</p>

AUSTIN — A federal court dismissed a case against the Texas secretary of state brought by a voter and the state’s Democratic Party, which challenged a state election law governing the order in which candidates appear on the ballot. The plaintiffs had asked the court to require the state to use a ballot order system that would have given major party candidates an “equal opportunity to be listed first on the ballot.”

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