⁍ The ruling reverses an appeals court decision on Friday that said Governor Greg Abbott could not limit drop-off sites to one per county.

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⁍ Nearly 8 million Texans had cast ballots as of Tuesday, approaching 90% of the entire 2016 vote.

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⁍ The coronavirus pandemic has prompted hundreds of lawsuits across the United States over how people can cast their ballots.

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– With less than two weeks to go until Election Day, some 8 million voters in Texas have already cast ballots—more than any state in the country, per Reuters—and on Tuesday, the Texas Supreme Court ruled in favor of Gov. Greg Abbott. The ruling reverses an appeals court decision that said Gov. Abbott could not limit drop-off sites to one per county. The court wrote that ” limiting early hand-deliveries of mail-in ballots to one office per county requires more travel time for some voters. But this ignores the other options for casting their ballots that these voters have.” The Brennan Center for Justice, a non-partisan public policy institute that represented the groups challenging Abbott’s order, said it had no plans to take the case to the US Supreme Court. “The Texas Supreme Court has had its say and now it’s time for the voters in Texas to have theirs,” said Myrna Perez, director of the voting rights and elections program at New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice.