The US 5th Circuit Federal Appeals Court has effectively blocked an app that would have allowed Texas voters to register online.
The app was created by the group Vote.org. It made a way for voters to register to vote without actually going to a registration site or without filling out an online form and then printing it, signing it, and getting it to the registrar.
But the Texas Attorney General's office stepped in to say the app violates something called the wet signature law. That effectively says a person has to sign a form in ink. The app used a digital signature.
A US District Court judge had sided with Voter.org but in a split decision a panel of the 5th Circuit says the wet signature law was created to combat voter fraud, and to that end, the state has an interest in blocking the app.
The group did not respond to a request for its next legal step.
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