Federal judge says Texas mask law includes polling places

A federal judge ruled that Texas’s mask mandate must be applied to polling places, invalidating an order from the state’s Gov. Greg Abbott that set out an exception. Abbott’s executive order stated that anyone “voting, assisting a voter, serving as a poll watcher, or actively administering an election” was immune to the state-wide mask mandate.In his temporary ruling, U.S. District Judge Jason Pulliam claimed that the exception violated the…