Polling Center: The Partisan Split on Voting Rights
On February 27, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a challenge to Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the provision of that landmark civil rights law that requires Texas and eight other states, as well as several local entities in other states, to receive federal “preclearance” for changes to their “voting practices and procedures.” We asked Texans about federal oversight of the election process in the October 2012 University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.
In the lead up to that survey, the application of Section 5 had been prominently discussed amidst the state’s unsuccessful efforts ...
Comments (3)
Jim Baxa
Biased questioning. You are leading those who are not familiar with the issues into thinking that this is the only way to avoid racism in voting. That is why you were surprised by the responses. Try redoing the poll without the leading sentance, and you will get vastly different results.
Charles Voith
Personally, I have no doubt that tens-of-thousands of legal and illegal immigrants vote illegally in federal elections across the country...some accidentally, and many on purpose; and that many dead Americans still vote; and that many Americans vote more than once. Illegal voting has been prevalent since at least the 1940's...when LBJ was first elected to the senate thanks to a mysterious stuffed ballot box from south Texas.
Samdavis
There's no proof of massive illegal voting, other than that manufactured by partisan GOP think tanks, but don't let that get in the way of a good argument. Don't you think that someone in this country illegally would try to stay away from places where they could be caught? I guess it depends on how badly you need to believe that Voter ID is about voter fraud rather than voter disenfranchisement.