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In an order entered June 26, 2023, United States District Judge Robert Pitman of the Western District of Texas held Texas's ballot access procedures for independent and minor party.
A federal judge blocks an 118-year-old state law that required minor political party candidates to collect more than 83,000 signatures on paper in order to appear on the ballot.