In 2011 the Republican Texas legislature engaged in voter fraud. Legislators passed a bill requiring voters to take a government-issued ID photo to the polling place. Student ID’s are not acceptable. Voter registration cards are not acceptable. A permit to carry a concealed weapon is acceptable.
Out of 20 million votes cast in Texas in the ten years before the law was passed, there were two convictions for in-person voter fraud.
A federal judge found that 600,000 voters, predominately black, Latino, and poor, (and Democratic) lacked the necessary ID. She overturned the Texas law.
Will the U.S. Supreme Court, which struck down portions of the Voting Rights Act as no longer necessary, uphold the lower court decision to void the Texas law? Five of the U.S. Supreme Court justices are Republicans who seem more interested in protecting the interests of the Republican Party than in upholding the Constitution. I am not optimistic.
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