Beware of voter-suppression mischief in Texas [View all]

[Caretha]

I'm posting this because I went to vote yesterday (early), and started to show my ID along with my voter's registration card. I'd read (gawd only knows where now), that ID was required in Texas to vote.

I wait my turn and am motioned to the next available station to sign & show the above. I have my Voter Reg Card in my hand and as I'm about to try to pull my Tx Driver's License out of my billfold to show ID, the lady says "I don't need to see that". I said... but I read where we needed ID now, and she says, "I know" with a very disgusted look on her face, "but that is not the law".

I guess I'm not as informed as I thought I was on what is going on in Texas and voting. I'll admit, I work long hours and can't always keep up, so I figure maybe there are others like me here in Texas and thought I'd pass this along. When I got a chance tonight I googled it, and here's a story about voter ID in Texas.

Beware of voter-suppression mischief in Texas

Let's clear that up. A federal court blocked Texas' voter ID law in late August. It did so because that egg on the state's face during court hearings came from its scrambled and convoluted explanations about how the voter ID effort wasn't about suppressing minority votes. The judges didn't buy it.

Texas wants to take this all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. It's too late for this election.

Got that? There is no voter photo ID law in force in Texas for the Nov. 6 election.

Zip. None.

Read more: http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/news_columnists/o_ricardo_pimentel/article/Beware-of-voter-suppression-mischief-in-Texas-3982479.php#ixzz2ASdU1tMM