A split Fifth Circuit panel threw out an injunction barring enforcement of part of a Texas election law, reversing a judge who found some provisions could deter people from providing assistance to disabled voters.
At issue were parts of a sweeping Texas statute that imposed several new requirements on so-called “assistors.” The plaintiffs, a coalition of organizers and advocacy groups, said the law could have a chilling effect.
But the federal law ensuring that voters can receive help “does not vaporize all additional state voter assistance regulations,” Judge Stuart Kyle Duncan wrote in an opinion Friday joined by Judge ...