I look forward to the day when I can wake up
without my first thought being "what new shit has Trump got up to whilst I was asleep?"
Some bad news but plenty of good news...
(Extracts from NYT pieces)
TEXAS 
A federal appeals court ruled Monday that Texas election officials can continue to reject mail-in ballots because of perceived signature discrepancies without giving voters a chance to correct them.
The ruling reversed a Federal District Court judge’s ruling last month that it was unconstitutional to reject a mail-in ballot because of a possible signature mismatch if the voter was not first informed of the problem and offered the opportunity to address it.
MISSISSIPPI 
A federal civil rights lawsuit against Mississippi’s top election official was withdrawn on Tuesday after the state agreed to expand curbside voting options in response to the coronavirus pandemic and to give voters the opportunity to fix absentee ballots that are rejected.
The state will now allow voters with symptoms of Covid-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, or who have been exposed to someone with the virus, to vote curbside on Election Day.
Mississippi must also now notify residents within one business day if their absentee ballots are rejected and give them up to 10 days after the election to correct the problem. Voters previously had no way of knowing that their ballots had been rejected, which critics said was quite common because of the state’s flawed system of matching signatures on the ballots with those on file.
The changes came after the N.A.A.C.P., the League of Women Voters in Mississippi and several other plaintiffs sued the secretary of state, Michael D. Watson Jr., a Republican, in August over the state’s election rules, which they asserted would prevent many residents from exercising their right to vote.
MICHIGAN and PENNSYLVANIA
The top election officials in Michigan and Pennsylvania, two battleground states where many fear that an avalanche of mail ballots could significantly delay the reporting of election results next month, said Tuesday that they hope to finish counting nearly every ballot within three days of Election Day.