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After Lengthy Fight, DOJ Clears Texas’ Voter ID Law
Daily Caller ^ | 5:27 PM 07/07/2017 | Kevin Daley

Posted on 07/08/2017 10:20:42 PM PDT by Olog-hai

The Department of Justice will withdraw from a legal challenge to Texas’ voter ID law, after the state legislature enacted several legislative fixes to the law to assuage the Department’s concerns.

Reuters reports that the Department filed a motion informing the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas that it would withdraw from a challenge to the law because the state’s new amendment to the statute “removes any ‘discriminatory effect’ or intent the Court found … and advances Texas’s legitimate ‘policy objectives’ in adopting a voter ID law.” The amendment Texas adopted eased some of the law’s photo identification requirements. […]

“The Department of Justice has completed the conversion from a vote protector to a vote suppressor,” said Matt Angle, director of the left-wing Lone Star Project. “By completely reversing its position on the discriminatory Texas voter ID law, the Trump/Sessions DOJ is now openly hostile to the notion of African Americans and Hispanics fairly participating in elections in Texas.” …

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Mexico; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: aliens; doj; electionfraud; voterid
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To: Olog-hai
Smacks of Shelia J. Lee....even the impoverished in India must have an ID.....When Blacks were asked on the street, They all had ID's, said not having an ID was a myth...it didn't bother them at all to have one.

Maxine Water's, Shelia, A.L. Hastng, Conyers, Cummings etc.....the overseers of the modern Plantations keeping the minorities minorities.

21 posted on 07/09/2017 1:58:23 AM PDT by yoe
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To: Olog-hai

you cannot go in , say your name & address . Sign a voting authority Than have poll worker compare that signature to sample signature , then sign main book page, then vote?


22 posted on 07/09/2017 3:10:00 AM PDT by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is on twitter @SarahMGellar)
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To: Olog-hai

folks we do not want to discriminate against the illegal voters, cemetery voters and pet votes. These are all good Democrat supporters


23 posted on 07/09/2017 3:51:22 AM PDT by okie 54
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To: Olog-hai

The DOJ interferring in more elections...


24 posted on 07/09/2017 4:04:57 AM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: Windflier

“What - blacks and hispanics incapable of procuring legal identification cards? Really?”

I’ll bet they have no problem finding their EBT cards when they need to.

More winning!!!


25 posted on 07/09/2017 4:11:10 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("Negative people make healthy people sick." - Roger Ailes)
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To: Repeal The 17th

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So how did all those African Americans vote down in Georgia?


26 posted on 07/09/2017 4:27:41 AM PDT by HypatiaTaught (Trump's victory makes me smile 24/7)
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To: Repeal The 17th

Georgia has had a strict photo ID requirement for voting for many years,
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So how did all those African Americans vote down in Georgia?


27 posted on 07/09/2017 4:32:51 AM PDT by HypatiaTaught (Trump's victory makes me smile 24/7)
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To: Olog-hai
I have to show a photo ID to buy an allergy medicine that *doesn't even require a prescription*.Why should we *all* not be required to show ID when registering to vote *and* at the polling place itself?
28 posted on 07/09/2017 5:10:42 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Comey = The Swamp Fighting Back)
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To: Windflier

This is an offensive and exclusionary position. What about women? You cannot expect women to be able to figure out how to get an i.d. Only big, strong, smart white men could ever possibly be able to get an i.d. Everyone else is just too stupid to be able to figure it out! /s


29 posted on 07/09/2017 5:13:41 AM PDT by JustSurrounded (Just as shoplifters are not customers, so, too, invaders are not immigrants.)
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To: Cololeo
I do ponder that land-owner requirement from time-to-time. Never happen, but I wonder if the modern day equivalent is that you must have filed income tax as a non-dependent and your tax return must show that you actually paid net positive taxes.
30 posted on 07/09/2017 5:20:24 AM PDT by JustSurrounded
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To: JustSurrounded

I remember the old sci fi, “You aren’t a citizen until AFTER you have served in the military. Of course, with all the social engineering going on in the military, one wonders if the libtards haven’t anticipated this.


31 posted on 07/09/2017 5:22:47 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Boomer

Yup. You even have to show ID to exercise your 2nd amendment rights. So it’s not a “Constitutional” thing as many voter impersonation advocates argue.


32 posted on 07/09/2017 5:23:31 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves.)
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To: Olog-hai

YES!


33 posted on 07/09/2017 5:24:18 AM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: Olog-hai

Discrimination is good.

Discrimination separates the fraudulent chaff from the wheat.


34 posted on 07/09/2017 5:26:47 AM PDT by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: JustSurrounded

“that you actually paid net positive taxes”

no. people can have a bad year, the self employed as an example where they pay n o taxes. What of stay at home moms? they’d be filed on their husbands taxes not have earned anything themselves or paid taxes themselves? I’m sure there are more situations where a person for a year or more may not owe taxes.


35 posted on 07/09/2017 5:33:42 AM PDT by b4me (If Jesus came to set us free, why are so many professed Believers still in chains?)
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To: Olog-hai

WTH is wrong with photo ID? Pure BS!


36 posted on 07/09/2017 5:46:09 AM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's agenda�Divide and conquer seems to be working.)
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To: Olog-hai
Looks like a great ideological healing is taking place. That which was badly broken in the previous 8 years is being restored.

MAGA!

37 posted on 07/09/2017 7:12:20 AM PDT by capt. norm (Two can live as cheaply as one...but for only half as long)
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To: capt. norm

And may it happen in just a few more swing states so we can solidfy our already strong position in the Electoral College.


38 posted on 07/09/2017 7:52:54 AM PDT by Vision Thing (You see the depths of our hearts, and You love us the same...)
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