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Gothmog

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12. We won a major legal victory in Texas on the Voter id law and we still have issues
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 07:07 PM
Dec 2017

The good guys won a major victory with respect to the Texas voter id law in part because the State of Texas had no proof of voter fraud. A new AG tried to argue before the trial judge that the Texas voter id law was needed due to fraud and judge jumped on her. http://www.caller.com/story/news/politics/elections/2017/02/28/voter-id-hearing-set-tuesday/98493448/

A federal judge who previously found Texas lawmakers disenfranchised minority voters when it passed a voter ID law questioned state lawyers Tuesday who denied legislators intended it to be discriminatory.

U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos interrupted Texas Assistant Attorney General Angela Colmenero three times during a hearing in the Corpus Christi courtroom. The judge questioned the lawyer's arguments meant to prove the legislators did not have ill intent and the law drew wide public support.

Despite these rulings, we still had GOP election workers tell voters that they needed the limited set of ids. Luckily, we had poll watchers out watching for this and got these election workers to stop lying about the law and the court's ruling.
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