You basically have to prove that you won't and can't be in the area on election day to get a ballot. One can only hope that their push to get Republicans to request them will result in a bunch of denials and those voters won't show up at the polls, either.

Quote: Registered voters can qualify to vote by mail if they are 65 years or older, cite a disability or an illness, or are confined in jail but still eligible to vote. Voters who will not be in the county where they're registered on Election Day and during the entire early voting period can also request a ballot by mail.

The Texas election code defines disability as a “sickness or physical condition” that prevents a voter from appearing in person without personal assistance or the “likelihood of injuring the voter’s health.” While lack of immunity to the new coronavirus alone doesn’t qualify a voter for a mail-in ballot based on disability, a voter can consider it along with their medical history to decide if they meet the requirement.
https://www.sacurrent.com/the-daily/archives/2020/08/21/heres-how-to-vote-by-mail-in-texas

There is no proof of absence requirement. (I just looked at my own application.) You are just supposed to be absent during early voting and election day and the mail-in ballot has to be mailed to an address outside the county you live in. (Which could be kind of inconvenient, but I assume they were trying to prevent someone who just says they'll be out of the county and actually isn't planning on it.)

Sure, that sounds like a great idea.

to now, since you don't have to prove you'll be out of the county, a sarcastic, "sure, that sounds like a great idea."

Before covid this wasn't any big deal. If you wanted to vote (and lord knows we need more that want to) you could stop at any one of the several voting early locations in the county or go to your polling place on election day. If you were going to be out at Aunt Millies in Brownsville for a couple of weeks, you could request an absentee ballot. You didn't have to get an note from Aunt Millie or show a plane ticket or whatever. No big deal. And before the repubs went full speed to ramp up voter suppression you could just show up with your voter registration card or electric bill or something and vote.

So yes, you could lie.

You have to be military stationed out of state, out of state during early voting or election day, over 65 or disabled. That's it. Anyone who puts Covid -19 as their reason for a mail in ballot doesn't get one. Our Democratic party chair found that out when she called the state.

They have no sense of irony, so it's flat out hypocrisy. Everything coming from the GOP is hypocritical, cynical, or deliberate fantasy and prevarication.


VOte by mail bad, Absentee OKIYAR.