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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
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Alexa Ura

INSANE: Harris county voting locations will stay open until 8 p m an extra hour | Rare Historical Photos

Evening voters cue up in a long line before polls close at the Metropolitan Multi-Service Center in Houston on Tuesday Nov. 8, 2022.
Evening voters queue up in a long line before polls close Tuesday at the Metropolitan Multi-Service Center in Houston. (Credit: Michael Stravato for The Texas Tribune)

The Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday set the stage for a legal fight over whether to count ballots Harris County voters cast during an extended hour of voting ordered by a lower court.

That lower court ordered that the state’s most populous county extend voting hours until 8 p.m. after several polling places were delayed in opening. The state’s highest civil court blocked that ruling and ordered Harris County to separate ballots cast by voters who were not in line by 7 p.m., the normal cutoff for voting in Texas. The Supreme Court’s order followed a request by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to reverse the lower court’s order. The Supreme Court posted the order on Twitter at 8:30 p.m.

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