The changes would not go into effect until the court lifts its injunction.
Voting by mail sounds easy. Open your mail in ballot, fill in the dots, sign and date it. and send it back. But the process has been anything but easy for many voters in New York.
Ballot requests in 38 states, whether by mail or through some form of in-person early voting, surpassed 35 million this week.
Abbott's order shuttered dozens of sites statewide, limiting the number of drop-off locations to one per county, including in Texas' biggest cities.
Major issues found with mail-in ballots sent to some voters in New York City have extended to those received in Nassau County.
It appears that an election worker's decision to throw out nine military ballots in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, amounted to a mistake and not "intentional fraud."