(Reuters) – The Texas Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that voters in Houston cannot receive unsolicited mail-in ballots for November’s presidential election, thwarting an effort to expand voting in the third-largest county in the United States.
The court concluded that the state’s election law did not authorize a plan by Harris County Clerk Chris Hollins to mail ballot applications to the county’s 2.4 million registered voters.
The Supreme Court sent the case back to a lower court, which it directed to issue an injunction to prohibit Hollins from sending ballot applications to registered voters.
(Reporting by Tom Hals in Wilmington, Delaware; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama and David Gregorio)
