Posted on 10/14/2014 3:08:10 PM PDT by cotton1706
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal appeals court on Tuesday reinstated Texas' tough voter ID law for the November election, which the U.S. Justice Department had condemned as the state's latest means of suppressing minority voter turnout.
The ruling by the New Orleans-based 5th Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily blocks last week's ruling by U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos in Corpus Christi, who determined the law unconstitutional and similar to a poll tax designed to dissuade minorities from voting.
The 5th Circuit did not rule on the merits of the law; instead, it determined it's too late to change the rules for the upcoming election. Early voting starts Oct. 20.
The law remains under appeal. For now, the ruling is a key victory for Republican-backed photo ID measures that have swept across the U.S. in recent years. The Texas law, considered the toughest of its kind in the nation, requires that an estimated 13.6 million registered Texas voters will need one of seven kinds of photo identification to cast a ballot.
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Even unions require ID for their members to vote.
I was going to ping you LUV, but see you already found this news!!
Tx ping Windy?
Maybe because they are illegal and therefore ineligible to have a id or vote.
Show me 1 voter in Indiana who could not get an ID and vote. The world did not come to an end and voting has continued since voter ID was passed.
I like it. Scan prints, then the machine prints out a ballot. No bags of pre marked ballots discovered at the end of the day all marked for the Dem
On the road right now. :)
It’s that $25. If they dropped the fee and paid for the ID’s out of general taxes, the left’s comparison to a poll tax wouldn’t be valid.
I thought to, but by the time I saw the news there were already two articles up on FR. I figure the whole Texas posse has seen it by now.
Thanks!
It is preposterous to suggest that anyone without ID should be allowed to vote anywhere, anytime. And suggesting that people of color are unlikely to be able to provide ID is RACIST!
I will use my many IDs to vote quickly and often./S
The dems will be printing out false IDs by the millions.
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