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215. GOP voter suppression techniques work

I volunteer on voter protection efforts. In 2014, I worked with the state party and the DNC to try to deal with the Texas voter id law, We trained volunteers to help people get ids but as you will see these efforts did not have a great effect. In 2014 a federal district judge found that the Texas voter id law discriminated against minorities. Here is a chart that shows the effect of the Texas voter id law on Democratic turnout

Greg Abbott got more votes in 2014 compared to Rick Perry while Wendy Davis got far fewer votes even though she spent more.

In 2016 the 5th Circuit affirmed this ruling and the Texas voter id law was largely gutted so that any registered voter can vote if they lack one of the approved ids and sign a Reasonable Impediment Declaration and provide one of the alternative ids which includes utility bills or bank statements. For college students, out of state drivers license are an approved id

After the gutting of the voter id law, turnout in Texas increased. We picked up two congressional seats in 2018 (Lizzie Fletcher and Colin Allred) and 12 state house seats. We need 9 more state house seats to take control of the Texas house. and the DCCC is targeting 6 congressional districts in Texas

GOP voter suppression works