Texas has issued only 340 voter ID cards this cycle

[Faryn Balyncd]

9. The law excludes many photo ID's. If a citizen does not drive and does not have a passport or a...

...a concealed handgun permit, it is unlikely that any photo ID that they have will be a photo ID that will allow them to vote. For example, all student photo ID's are worthless for meeting the Texas voter photo ID law.

The following is a list of the ONLY acceptable photo ID's acceptable under the law that the gerrymandered Texas legislature passed:

Texas driver license issued by the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS)
Texas Election Identification Certificate issued by DPS
Texas personal identification card issued by DPS
Texas concealed handgun license issued by DPS
United States military identification card containing the person’s photograph
United States citizenship certificate containing the person’s photograph
United States passport


While it is possible for an elderly person who no longer drives, or others lacking one of the above, to obtain an acceptable personal ID from the DPS in the same manner that they would use to obtain a driver's license, the writers of this legislation fully knew that this would take a special effort, and that many would not understand that their photo ID that might be acceptable for all other purposes would not allow them to vote, and that, despite the fact that the law was addressing an imaginary problem, that it would result in a significant number, estimated at over 500,000, eligible voters who would be disqualified solely because of the lack of a Republican approved photo ID, and that these citizens would be primarily from groups which include higher numbers of Democratic voters.