A https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧵" title="Thread" aria-label="Emoji: Thread"> on what& #39;s happened in the last week-ish with voting in Texas, in case you were busy fighting a pandemic or preparing for a hurricane.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🐌" title="Schnecke" aria-label="Emoji: Schnecke">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📪" title="Geschlossener Briefkasten mit gesenkter Fahne" aria-label="Emoji: Geschlossener Briefkasten mit gesenkter Fahne">The USPS sent a letter to Texas (and other states) saying that the legal deadline to vote by mail were "incompatible with delivery standards" https://www.texastribune.org/2020/08/14/texas-mail-in-ballots-usps/">https://www.texastribune.org/2020/08/1...

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📬" title="Offener Briefkasten mit aufgestellter Fahne" aria-label="Emoji: Offener Briefkasten mit aufgestellter Fahne">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📆" title="Abreißkalender" aria-label="Emoji: Abreißkalender">If your mail ballot is postmarked by Election Day it has to get to where it& #39;s going by the day after election day. There& #39;s an ask to change it so that if it is *postmarked* by Election Day there& #39;s still time to receive it. https://bit.ly/3b8CWJH ">https://bit.ly/3b8CWJH&q... https://twitter.com/jaspscherer/status/1296888693509304321">https://twitter.com/jaspscher...

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✅" title="Fettes weißes Häkchen" aria-label="Emoji: Fettes weißes Häkchen">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💰" title="Geldsack" aria-label="Emoji: Geldsack">Harris County Commissioners Court agreed to fund our elections like they should be, giving the green light for expanded Early Voting hours, more polling locations,drive thru voting, & sending out applications to vote by mail. https://twitter.com/HarrisCoJudge/status/1299803595722895362">https://twitter.com/HarrisCoJ...

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😐" title="Neutrales Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Neutrales Gesicht">TX is claiming Harris County can& #39;t mail applications to everyone, because not everyone qualifies. This doesn& #39;t make sense for a wide variety of reasons, one of them being that you don& #39;t have to provide a reason to request an application in general. https://bit.ly/3lwA4uK ">https://bit.ly/3lwA4uK&q...

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤷" title="Person shrugging" aria-label="Emoji: Person shrugging">There is no law against this, so look out for your application to vote by mail. (https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💡" title="Elektrische Glühbirne" aria-label="Emoji: Elektrische Glühbirne">Applications are not ballots) https://twitter.com/zachdespart/status/1300081865517404160">https://twitter.com/zachdespa...

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🚀" title="Rakete" aria-label="Emoji: Rakete">The Toyota Center is going to be a polling location. This kicked off the NBA saying all their sportsball arenas are going to be used to support voting rights. Yay! https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/nba-polling-places-which-arenas-will-serve-as-voting-sites-for-november-election-after-player-protests/">https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/... https://twitter.com/HoustonRockets/status/1299089263330500616">https://twitter.com/HoustonRo...

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💻" title="Computer" aria-label="Emoji: Computer">Texas was violating federal law by not allowing residents to register to vote when they update their driver’s license information online. So that& #39;s getting fixed soon. https://www.texastribune.org/2020/08/28/texas-voter-registration-laws/">https://www.texastribune.org/2020/08/2...

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🏤" title="Europäisches Postamt" aria-label="Emoji: Europäisches Postamt">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😒" title="Unerfreutes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Unerfreutes Gesicht">The Post Office has been one of the easiest places to grab a voter registration form in Texas, but now they aren& #39;t allowing the forms to be placed there, according to the LWV-TX. https://www.kut.org/post/voting-group-says-it-no-longer-allowed-leave-voter-registration-cards-post-offices?fbclid=IwAR3Jk2aO0RijdKERrm1sBbHkxtD7EdpkkSTlGGnPSwS8wW0f9oC5RKLD6QA">https://www.kut.org/post/voti...

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👩🏿" title="Frau (dunkler Hautton)" aria-label="Emoji: Frau (dunkler Hautton)">‍A Texas appellate court said it would not re-hear an appeal from Crystal Mason, who was sentenced to 5 years in prison for trying to vote while ineligible. The vote was *not* counted, because the provisional ballot system we have in place worked. https://twitter.com/ACLUTx/status/1299369916873793536?fbclid=IwAR05w8KxZJjpKnIBk68oabOAkHJgirlWtbXOY0TBvdlrN-uOPEpvBdc9xTQ">https://twitter.com/ACLUTx/st...