On July 6, 2020, NDRN had joined the American Diabetes Association, Disability Rights Advocates, Disability Rights Texas (the Texas P&A), Disability Rights Legal Center in an amicus of support of neither side explaining the obligations Texas elections officials must make reasonable modifications under the ADA to voting during the COVID-19 pandemic such as permitting voting by mail.
On September 10, 2020, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Texas Democratic Party v. Abbott, ___ F.3d ___, 2020 WL 5422917 (5th Cir.) vacated a preliminary injunction issued by the district court regarding a Twenty-Sixth Amendment challenge to the constitutionality of a state statute requiring voters under 65 to prove a disability in order to vote by mail, as applied during the COVID-19 pandemic.
