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https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/07/supreme-court-voting-rights-alabama-texas-wisconsin-florida.html

Alabama was going to have drive-through voting, but the courts say it can't. Florida's poll tax was struck down by a lower court, but on appeal it was upheld--even though the state literally cannot determine how much people owe. In Texas, seniors (the most conservative voting bloc) can vote absentee without an excuse, but not younger people--the courts say nobody is treated unequally, so it can stand. And in Wisconsin, the state court ruled that a statewide law restricting early voting (even in localities that had tried expanding it) for the express purpose of suppressing Democratic votes, is permissable. Because political question doctrine, or something.