welfare ID cards don't have their picture on them there???
Posted on 10/10/2014 10:45:04 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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.
"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."
U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos of Corpus Christi on Texas' Gulf Coast, an appointee of President Barack Obama, never signaled during a two-week trial in September that she intended to rule on the Texas law before Election Day. But the timing could spare an estimated 13.6 million registered Texas voters from needing photo identification to cast a ballot.
The Justice Department says more than 600,000 of those voters, mostly blacks and Hispanics, currently lack eligible ID to vote.
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Amazing!
Good question- if you do not have id, how did you register to vote?
“voter ID requirement to a poll tax deliberately meant to suppress minority voter turnout”
My dad brought up this the other day. He said when he was living in MAINE in the ‘50s, there was a poll tax on everyone. And he never lived anywhere but Yankee-land until he moved here for a job in ‘60.
So were Yankees trying to keep out blacks? Because we’re always told only southerners did that. Maybe it worked because I can’t think of a black person in ME these days.
So why again am I so required to have various ID/proof of residence for the DMV to register myself or car, but not to vote for any election that may affect the country or community?
welfare ID cards don't have their picture on them there???
how to steal an election for the RAT party - allow everyone in the country to VOTE for the Santa Claus party.
“600,000 poor hispanic and blacks don’t have ID and therefor their right to vote is suppressed.....I wonder how many of the same 600,000 have ID which enables them to qualify for food stamps, welfare and housing allowances?”
Put another way, 600k poor Hispanic and blacks CLAIM they don’t have ID and so 300 million Americans’ right to a free and fair election is negated.
The cynic in me thinks that if a person is so lame they don’t have the wit to get a photo ID, yeah, maybe they shouldn’t be voting.
600,000 is the number of illegal aliens expected to vote in Texas next month.
How can a judge veto the will of the people? This is ridiculous. We are NOT A DEMOCRATIC FREE NATION. We are a communist dictatorship. They’ve totally got us hoodwinked.
America IS no longer a free democratic nation, but we think we are, so no one questions the lie.
You don’t need an ID to register to vote. You can fill out a form, and they don’t ask you for ID. Or you can do it online, no ID required.
We should have had 2 million armed patriots in the Mall years ago. A show of force, that’s all it will take. These people would wet their pants.
There are sympathizers in Congress. I can think of a few of the top of my head.
I LOVE IT!!!
Yes they should name a couple, let the “journalists” interview them.
Heh, I wonder which other nations do not require an ID in which to vote.
In my search yesterday, I talked to the Harris County official in charge of the voting in our county...
He basically said at this point in the election cycle it is unrealistic to retool and retrain poll workers to do anything but what the law was all along...they are prepared to supplement the voting supply kits, but he said that Greg Abbott our Texas AG has filed for a “stay” on this ruling until after the election and potential runoffs (if need be)...
So as a Presiding Election Judge in my Precinct, I will continue to require photo ID as a definitive ID to establish that voter’s ability to vote in this precinct...
If anyone protests that question by my clerks and myself, well, I will still let them vote...
Provisionally of course, which means if the paperwork on the outside of that envelope says the voter failed to Id themselves, the review board will toss that vote in the trash...
They (voters) did that to themselves...And if my democrat counterpart has a problem with it, well, he can go pound sand, the law is the law, not an interpretation by a political ideology like Judge Ramos, the timing is obviously suspect...
The question is, “What the hell do they believe they can do about it on election day???”
And the only way the opposition to the purity of our elections would find out is if they plant a few weasels into our lines to come in to vote...Who are obviously here to wreak the process...
I’m not sweating them...
I just hope Abbott gets the “stay” implemented before November 4th...I think he’ll, or one of his ADA’s will get it done...
This would be derided as dictatorial if it had happened in Venezuela.
There is absolutely nothing discriminatory about requiring a person to prove their identity in order to vote. On the contrary, it is the only way to prevent vote fraud.
“The Justice Department says more than 600,000 of those voters, mostly blacks and Hispanics, currently lack eligible ID to vote.”
Well, cry me a river...While your on your way to cash that welfare check...(with your photo ID of course)
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