please mess with texas

State Attorney General has threaten individuals with punitive measures including incarceration should they make public their belief, conviction, truism that the risk of contracting COVID-19 should not be a trade-off for participating in the democratic process, thus giving credence to ballot-by-mail (see also). Never one to not exploit a crisis for pushing an agenda, one wonders how long it might be a standing-order to patronise one’s local amenities just like before without stint or worry. Interestingly, the AG does not invoke ideology or the economic argument to defend his stance but rather a legal technicality that fear of contracting an infectious disease is not a qualifying reason to request authorisation to vote by post and to advocate otherwise is abetting voter fraud.