"We
are extremely heartened by the court's decision, which affirms our
position that the Texas voter identification law unfairly and
unnecessarily restricts access to the franchise," U.S. Attorney General
Eric Holder said in a statement. "We are also pleased that the Supreme
Court has refused to allow Wisconsin to implement its own restrictive
voter identification law."
AUSTIN, Texas – A federal judge likened Texas' strict voter ID
requirement to a poll tax deliberately meant to suppress minority voter
turnout and struck it down less than a month before Election Day — and
mere hours after the U.S. Supreme Court blocked a similar measure in
Wisconsin.
The twin rulings released Thursday evening represent major and somewhat
surprising blows to largely Republican-backed voter identification
rules sweeping the nation that have generally been upheld in previous
rulings.
Approved in 2011, Texas' law is considered among the nation's harshest
and had even been derided in court by the Justice Department as blatant
discrimination. Wisconsin's law was passed the same year and has
remained a similar political flashpoint.
Meanwhile, in order to have a job people need more ID than these laws required.
ReplyDeleteSo what's the problem? You only need a photo i.d. to vote in PERSON... absentee voters just go in line, fill in the blanks, and the ballots are mailed out every election without fail. File under multiple manes, receive multiple ballots!
ReplyDeleteThe f*ckin' DEMS have known this for decades and use it EVERY election, even for County Dog Catcher!
Try to buy a gun and see how much crap the .gov piles on.
ReplyDeleteChoose your spot in the desert. Give me a time. I'll back you.
ReplyDeleteI say even the field. One hundred of their's against 50 of ours. They won't have a chance and victory will be sweet.
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