Facts elusive in Texas voter ID fight [View all]
AUSTIN - Despite scant evidence of actual cheating at the polls, allegations of voter fraud fueled the controversial law that makes a picture ID necessary to vote in Texas.
Fewer than five complaints involving voter impersonations were filed with the Texas Attorney General's Office from the 2008 and 2010 general elections, which drew more than 13 million voters.
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Texas has suffered from "multiple cases of voter fraud," Gov. Rick Perry said in a recent Fox News interview, though the attorney general handled just 20 allegations of election law violations in the 2008 and 2010 elections. Most involved mail-in ballot or campaign finance violations, electioneering too close to a polling place or a voter blocked by an election worker.
To sell the voter ID law, however, supporters conjured up images of "busloads of illegal immigrants being transported up from Mexico to vote straight-ticket Democratic in an election near you," said Rep. Rafael Anchia, D-Dallas. "That was the fantasy, the scary narrative."
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