Justice Department: Texas voter ID discriminatory

[unhappycamper]

http://kdhnews.com/news/politics/justice-department-texas-voter-id-discriminatory/article_7251c098-3315-11e4-8ef6-0017a43b2370.html

Justice Department: Texas voter ID discriminatory
Associated Press
Posted: Wednesday, September 3, 2014 4:30 am

CORPUS CHRISTI — A federal judge on Tuesday began reviewing tough new Texas voter ID rules challenged by the Obama administration in a trial that could threaten the polarizing law, although a decision isn’t expected before the November election.

Minority rights groups, voters and Democratic lawmakers are among a coalition of plaintiffs suing Texas, and they said their experts estimated 787,000 registered voters lacking any of seven acceptable forms of ID to cast a ballot under the law. They said blacks and Hispanics make up a disproportionate slice of those voters.

Texas is the first test by the Justice Department to wring protections from a weaker Voting Rights Act after the U.S. Supreme Court last year gutted the heart of the landmark 1965 civil rights law.

In two Texas elections since that ruling, voters were required to show an approved ID. Lawyers for Republican Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, the favorite to become governor in January, told a judge that both took place without glitches or disenfranchising voters.

[Downwinder]

1. A Passport is primary documentation for a voter ID.

But, you cannot get a TX voter ID if you have a Passport.

[Gothmog]

2. Battleground Texas has an observer at this trial

I really wish that I could be there

[DhhD]

3. Having no ID would mean that no one without an ID came in to vote with or without glitches or

with or without access to the election officials checking IDs at the door, but plenty of People drove by their local voting area knowing that their vote used to count and should count on election day. Bigot Republicans cannot not win unless they cheat.