AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Democrats are suing Texas elections officials in an effort to stop a new ban on straight-ticket voting in 2020.
The lawsuit filed Thursday comes after long lines this week snaked out of polling centers in Houston on Super Tuesday.
Some voters waited more than an hour, and Democrats are claims that it hints at problems to come in November.
Most states don’t offer straight-ticket voting, which allows voters to simply choose a party’s entire slate of candidates. But the lawsuit by the Texas Democratic Party — joined by national Democratic groups trying to make inroads in the booming red state — claims the new Texas law set to take effect before Election Day would disproportionately harm black and Latino communities in big urban counties where ballots are longer, resulting in longer wait times.
