Actually, I am thinking about the handicapped and senior citizens who no longer drive, and find it difficult to get to the polls. It is not hard to vote by mail in Texas, just time consuming.
We had some volunteers asking the handicapped and senior citizens in our precinct if they needed transportation on election days. My problem with the election last Nov is that Donna Howard (Ms frizzie head) had many absentee ballots disqualified. Those were mostly from military overseas on deployment, and the ones I know, did NOT vote for her. She won by 12 or 15 votes.
I looked a bit but couldn’t find the numbers of mail votes in Texas either locally or statewide. I thought that they were on some of the return info but I didn’t really look that hard.
With early voting like it is and you have mobile people they can be organized and transported for voting purposes. I know some churches do this on a Sunday afternoon after services where they all pool together and go to the early voting polls. Also some groups organize transportation for people in nursing/retirement centers, etc, pick them up take them to the polls, let them vote and maybe make a shopping stop on the way back to their domicles. In person early voting has changed voting somewhat.
But your question regrading ‘mail ballots’ is valid regarding the photo requirement. I guess they could be required to attach a copy of their photo ID to the mail in ballot. I’ve not read the requirements as spelled out in the law.