Feds: One in 14 Texas Adults Has no Photo I.D. (NAACP's Eric Holder meeting requires photo ID)

WOAI radio ^ | Tuesday, July 10, 2012 | Jim Forsyth

[a fool in paradise]

  Lawyers for several groups which are opposing the state's voter i.d bill have raised their estimate of how many otherwise eligible Texas voters would not be able to cast ballots if the law were implemented, 1200 WOAI news reports.

 

  Assistant U.S. Attorney Elizabeth Westfall, representing the Justice Department, told a federal appeals court panel in Washington that 'as many as 1.4 million people' lack the appropriate government issued i.d. needed to vote under the Texas law.

 

  That is up from the 600,000 people that Attorney General Eric Holder said would be 'disenfranchised' if the law is implemented.

 

  Westfall gave no figures to back up her claim that one in 14 Texas adults doesn't have a driver's license or other form of government issued photo i.d. and would be unable to obtain one, despite the fact that the law requires the Department of Public Safety to provide photo i.d. voter cards for free.

 

  Adam Mortara, who is representing the state of Texas, told the appeals court panel that voter i.d. 'is the will of the people' and he said both Democratic and Republican voters in Texas are pushing for some form of security and accountability at the ballot box.  Mortara pointed out that several other states have implemented voter i.d. laws and there is no evidence that large numbers of voters have been disenfranchised by them.  He pointed out that Indiana's voter i.d. law, which is nearly identical to Texas', has been approved by the U.S. Supreme Court.

 

  Holder threw out the Texas voter i.d. law, exercising his power under the Voting Rights Act of 1965 which requires that nine southern states with a history of 'voter suppression' receive pre-clearance for any election law changes from the Justice Department.  Indiana's voter i.d. law was implemented because Justice Department pre clearance is not required in Indiana.

 

  Holder will receive a friendly welcome today when he addresses the national convention of the NAACP in Houston.  NAACP President Ben Jealous has already compared voter i.d. laws to 'Selma and Montgomery,' a reference to the vicious anti black laws which were approved in southern states in the fifties and early sixties, and which led to violent civil rights confrontations in Alabama.

 

 Ironically, the Justice Department says reporters who want to cover Holder's speech today in which he will decry the discriinatory and racist nature of requiring photo i.d.---have to first show a photo i.d. before they'll be allowed into the auditorium.

JUSTICE DEPARMTENT REQUEST FOR COVERAGE:

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*******MEDIA ADVISORY*******

 

UPDATE: ATTORNEY GENERAL ERIC HOLDER TO DELIVER REMARKS TOMORROW TO

NAACP NATIONAL CONVENTION

 

                     WASHINGTON – Attorney General Eric Holder will deliver remarks at the NAACP National Convention during the plenary session on TUESDAY, JULY 10, 2012, at 12:30 p.m. EDT/11:30 a.m. CDT. 

 

WHO:             Attorney General Eric Holder

                                                              

WHAT:          Remarks at the NAACP National Convention

 

            WHEN:          TUESDAY, JULY 10, 2012

12:30 p.m. EDT/

11:30 a.m. CDT

 

WHERE:       George R. Brown Convention Center

1001 Avenida De Las Americas

Houston
OPEN PRESS

                                                         

NOTE: All media must present government-issued photo I.D. (such as a driver’s license) as well as valid media credentials. Members of the media must RSVP to receive press credentials at xxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.com. For security purposes, media check-in and equipment set up must be completed by 10:15 a.m. CDT for a 10:30 a.m. CDT security sweep.  Once the security sweep is completed, additional media equipment will NOT be permitted to enter and swept equipment will NOT be permitted to exit. Press inquiries regarding logistics should be directed to Xxxxx Xxxxxx at XXXXX@XXXX.com or XXX-XXX-XXXX.

 

[goat granny]

I must be heartless, I don’t care if they are too lazy to get I.D. They must be living off the grid cause just about everything you need to show drivers license...tough tooty to them....

[knarf]

So what does 1 in 14 represent in numbers?

How many illegals IS that ?

7,000 ?
10,000 ?
20,000 ?

[Rastus]

  Assistant U.S. Attorney Elizabeth Westfall, representing the Justice Department, told a federal appeals court panel in Washington that 'as many as 1.4 million people' lack the appropriate government issued i.d. needed to vote under the Texas law.

74.86% of all quoted statistics are made up on the spot.

[Conservative Vermont Vet]

Assistant U.S. Attorney Elizabeth Westfall, representing the Justice Department, told a federal appeals court panel in Washington that 'as many as 1.4 million people' lack the appropriate government issued i.d. needed to vote under the Texas law.

Well, I guess they finally got an ACCURATE count on the number of ILLEGAL ALIENS in Texas?

[rem_mitchell]

We are being sandbagged with this ID stuff. They will soon propose National ID cards and claim that they are Constitutional in that they will give us all equal access and need for an ID. Just wait.

[a fool in paradise]

Motor voter discriminates because you have to show proof of insurance to be able to get a driver’s license...

http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/DriverLicense/ApplyforLicense.htm

That’s okay though, Ann “Not my mawwwwww” Richards(D) said that insurance rates would go down if it was a requirement (they didn’t but she meant well... < /sarc >).

[a fool in paradise]

Can’t board a plane or other interstate transportation without an ID. Can’t cross the border legally without a passport.

Can’t even attend an NAACP rally as a presstitute without a gub’mint photo ID.

[Sarajevo]

I participated in early voting last month, and the only thing they asked to see was my Voter Registration Certificate.

[a fool in paradise]

What does Mexico require to be able to vote in their elections?

I don't know.

You have to be a Mexican citizen to own property there.

But I seem to recall the previous Mexican presidente encouraging Mexican immigrants to go ahead and vote in Mexico's election as well as the one in Estados Unidos.

[JRandomFreeper]

It was a rhetorical question. It requires a picture voter ID.

/johnny

[blueyon]

First how does Holder know that.....I can BS on it and if true tell them to go get a ID card, there is still plenty of time.

[Grams A]

How many LEGAL American Citizens, living in Texas, don’t have a valid photo ID.”

And the answer to that question is a big fat ZERO. You have to have an ID down here to do everything!

[donna]

“Fathom the odd hypocrisy that Congress wants every citizen to prove they are insured, but not that they are citizens”.
- Richard Hartung, chairman Polk County (Wisconsin) Republican Party

[JamesA]

You need a photo Id to buy a car, get driver license, a fishing license, buy a firearm, surely one needs a photo Id for the most important of things, even elections.

[Paine in the Neck]

From the same Dept. of Made Up Statistics that gave us “90% of guns used in Mexican crime are from the US”.

[GladesGuru]

I’d guess that the large part of those without a valid ID are not legally able to vote.

[Terry Mross]

1 in 14 “Texas” adults? I don’t count illegals as “Texas” adults.

[knarf]

Maybe not.

Fast and Furious has exposed the hidden agenda of gun control, and most Americans are actually believing that.

Once someone believes a 'tactic' is being employed, it is easy to think, "Saaayyyy ... this is just like that Gunwalker thing I read about .."

So the ID card scow is, I think, going to sink also.

[goat granny]

Maw Richards was quite a piece of work...I remember her saying at the democrat convention....about GHWBush, He caint hep it, he was born with a silver foot in his mouth...it was sweet when his son GWBush beat her butt good for governor...:O)

[TexasTransplant]

I WANT TO BE AN ILLEGAL ALIEN

How does one go about becoming one?

TT