The Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday night ordered Harris County election officials to separate out ballots cast during an extra hour of voting that had been granted by a lower court.
It’s unclear how many votes were cast during the extra hour of voting. Harris County is home to nearly 2.6 million registered voters. Voters who got in line after 7 p.m. were required to cast a provisional ballot, which the county had already said would take more time to process.
"We didn’t oppose the original relief because we want to make sure every single eligible voter in Harris County has the chance to cast their ballot and there were polling places that had some issues," said Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee. "But the Supreme Court of Texas will decide what happens here."Menefee raised the prospect that the state would ask for those votes to be thrown out.
"We went to court because these closures and errors, especially in communities of color across Harris County, robbed voters of the opportunity to cast their ballot," said Hani Mirza, the voting rights program director at the Texas Civil Rights Project, which filed the lawsuit. "These folks got to the polls early, wanting to do their civic duty, and they would have were it not for these issues.
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