Decision on State’s Voter ID Law Could Come Next Week
With a primary election date set, maps drawn and the candidate filing period coming to an end Friday, attention is likely to shift to another volatile and partisan issue: voter ID.
Monday could finally be the day Texas lawmakers learn whether the state can implement a controversial measure requiring voters to present photo identification in time for the May 29 primary election. It has been eight months since the state's first attempt to get approval of the measure from the U.S. Department of Justice.
The law, Senate Bill 14 by Sen. Troy Fraser, R-Horseshoe Bay, was one of ...
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BiffTannen
A modern day poll tax.
Juan Reynoso
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WAKE UP AMERICANS-DO NOT LET MONEY BUY THE WHITE HOUSE AGAIN
WE LIVE IN SUCH EXCITING TIMES!!!! TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE SUCH A DIFFERENCE !!!!
We know that our country is being demise by the Washington culture of corruption and the Mainstream News Media that are own by the ruling class (The predator multinational corporatism).
The only way that we will take our country back is by voting the corrupt politicians out of Washington and do not let money buy the White House and our congress.
Some of the rats are abandon the sinking ship to avoid their responsibility for their participation of what is coming. We the people will not forget those that destroy our country, their time will come to answer for their betrayal and crimes against the people of this United states.
ACORN – is alive and working for Obama under other names, they have the money to corrupt the people, we must work in unity to make sure that they do not steal the white house again. Please focus on the following.
1.THE INTEGRITY OF THE VOTE: PROTECTING THE VOTE FROM FRAUD. poll watching/election judges/election clerks/ voter picture ID cards/ cleaning up the voter registration records. Dead people, children or non-citizens should not vote,
2. GETTING OUT THE CONSERVATIVE VOTE Precinct chairs/phone banking - block
walking - registering conservative people to vote – inform people of the Washington culture
of corruption – use the Internet - your e-mail, face-book and the media, force them to report
the truth.
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We must strengthen the federal government by redirecting its time, energy and resources toward those objects for which it bears express constitutional responsibility. Our Government is a government of limited and enumerated powers. The power not delegated to the federal government by the written Constitution is reserved to the states or to the people respectively. Stop the White House and congress from trashing our constitution and making our country a socialist Nazism country.
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Juan Reynoso
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PAZ ES EL RESPETO AL DERECHO AJENO – PEACE IS THE RESPECT TO THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS (AMERICAN SOVEREIGNTY )
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The US Dept. Of Justice Promote Voting Fraud
Fellow Tea Party. We Americans through apathy, ignorance and Constitutional illiteracy, we become complicit to our own demise. Obama, the Democrat Socialist Party and the organizations of traitor ( LA RAZA, MALDEF, MECHA, LULAC, THE HISPANIC CAUCUS, THE TEXAS HISPANIC CAUCUS, THE NATIONAL HISPANIC LEARDERSHIP, AND THE PROMOTERS OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION), will used any thing to gain political power, that is why we need to stand together and demand the eradication of voting fraud in every state in the union. Democrats are the promoters of electoral fraud, through voting registration and open voting systems that do not require proper identification of citizenship. Our Constitution and our voting rights laws are violate by the corrupt US Dept. of justice that support this rampant violation of our electoral system. " Voting is not a privilege; it is a fundamental right guaranteed by more constitutional amendments than any other right we have. But the US DEPT. Of Justice play politics and violated our U.S. Constitution."
Fellow Tea Party Member if we want changes on this corrupt system of Government we must expose the traitors and demand their removal from office or vote them out of office. If our voices are voided then we must eliminate the corrupt by force.
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God save our country from this self destruction.
Jalapeno Schwartz via Texas Tribune on Facebook
We don't need more Jim Crow laws
Carolyn Qualls via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I say we all storm the voter booths and refuse to show id!
Samdavis
Can we remove this idiot Juan's advertisements? It's all about suppressing the vote. Your copy and paste missive certainly doesn't express the views of any of the vast number of Hispanics I know. It's coconuts like you that run over to the party that hates you and your race.
Mike Openshaw via Texas Tribune on Facebook
PLease, folks; the law is specifically written to assure free IDs to that who can show need. Quite reaising your false flags.
What we find out on Monday is whether the representative government- freely elected in Texas- and the opinions of the vast majority of Texans- who strongly support Voter ID laws- matter to a DOJ that still has yet to answer questions of serious impropriety on their part.
Texascattleco
Hopefully the Voter Suppression Act of 2011 will be struck down by the courts.
Luisa Inez Newton via Texas Tribune on Facebook
pity the poor folks born at home with no birth certificate
Lisa Ahrlett via Texas Tribune on Facebook
You have to be a citizen to vote. Citizens easily obtain some form of ID through the state. Unless you are not a citizen, are dead, or are planning on committing voter fraud, this shouldn't have a negative impact on you whatsoever.
Kathy Kilmer Moak via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Mike - You are not living in the real world if you think the fact "the law is specifically written to assure free IDs to those who can show need" means that will happen. It costs money to obtain birth certificates and multiple headaches for those born at home decades ago. It costs money for gas and someone to drive to get to DPS offices, which now are few and far between in some counties. It takes time and a healthy body to be able to stand in the inevitable long lines necessary to obtain these documents, etc.
Judy Shelton Curtis via Texas Tribune on Facebook
This could be a good thing considering dead people were voting before!
Ron Blancarte via Texas Tribune on Facebook
See the 18% statistic on people's who's IDs don't match their voter registration.
Simply a law to disinfranchise voters.
Jon Andy Harris ODer via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Luisa, how do they drive? cash a check? Buy Alchohol........
Jon Andy Harris ODer via Texas Tribune on Facebook
if they are driving to the DPS office, they ALREADY have a government issued ID
Bill Eaves via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Voter ID is a must, we have to put a stop to illegals
Renee E. Babcock via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Jon, seriously, when was the last time you were carded for buying alchohol. For me, it was well over 20 years ago. And most of the poor don't drive, on account of they can't afford it. You're making assumptions about how others are living their lives based on how you're living your own, or how you think people are living their lives. It's not that the IDs are free (which is required by federal law), it's that the states are writing the laws in such a way that for many it's almost impossible to get the free ID. And we're already seeing disenfranchisement happening all over the country, and I object to that.
I object to someone being so hungry for power, that they are willing to screw over huge populations who have a *right* to vote by writing laws that in effect take away that right. And these lawmakers are only doing that because they feel (rightfully so) that they aren't winning over people with their message, so they have to resort to subterfuge.
They're not worried about voter fraud, because voter fraud is virtually non existent (and those very few cases that have been found out are so very few, they cannot make a difference in an election, and they're discovered). There are far more examples of election fraud (not the same thing as voter fraud), and most of that election fraud is being perpetrated by the very people who claim they're so worried about voter fraud.
George Milos
I cannot see why showing a Photo ID to vote is an issue? When I want to buy a beer or some medicine (Claritin), I am asked for Photo ID.
This should not be a 'partisan' issue, unless some people have the intent to commit fraud.
Hannah Katz
To allow felons, dead people and illegal immigrants to vote disenfranchises those of us who are law abiding citizens of Texas. This is a good law that curbs the abuses that some earlier commenters claim never happens in Texas. I think we all know better. One fraudulent vote is too many. By the way, the Mexican government has a great system of voter IDs to prevent voter fraud. Good for them. We should too.
Richard Thorne
Bogus arguments by those who don't want to show a valid id.
While I understand the arguments about lack of money, at some point citizens (thats right I typed citizens) must take some responsibility for themselves. If they want to vote they need to provide proper id. There is fraud going on and everyone knows it.
We're at the tipping point folks. So many people rely on the government that they are going to vote that way and the fraudulent votes are helping that cause.
We need to get out of this death spin.
Jozette Lynn Lopez via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Omg I thought they already did that starting this year, guess I was miss informed.
Mike Openshaw via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Kathy: oh, the difficulties in doing this; sob, sob. I've been to AFRICAN countries where such IDs are required. The Supreme Court has already ruled on the constitutionality of the Georgia law, which the Texas one was modeled after.
The best response to some of this was given by a preacher from the toughest parts of Oak Cliff I drove down to Austin with. When he heard someone complain that the poor might have trouble getting IDs. He scoffed at it saying, "You can't even cash a welfare check without picture ID!"
Neil Moyer via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I got a TWIC card from DHS, complete with electronic finger prints, retina scans, data chip, FBI screening--can I use it to vote???
Marcus Cunningham via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Fact: There has been no significant findings of voter fraud. Anywhere. It would be impossible to even try to eliminate every possible instance of fraud.
Fact: The DPS offices that will offer free ID are so few and far between, that most people who need them won't have access to them.
Fact: Under this new law, a concealed handgun licence is good enough to register, but not a college ID.
Does anybody really believe that this law wasn't specifically written to disenfranchise certain populations. Really?
Mike Openshaw via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Marcus, a concealed Handgun ID is a VERIFIED ID; college IDs are printed left and right, without verification. They ALSO often fail to list WHERE the student lives, essential to voter ID.
Anya Khan
Renee, what election fraud in Texas as you talking about?
Mimi Purnell via Texas Tribune on Facebook
OK...everybody pray, visit with, plead with, or just talk to whoever or whatever you believe in to ask for a BIG NO WAY on the voter i.d. bill!
Jose L. Garcia Jr. via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I never heard of college students requiring a federal background check , in order to get an id. The CHL and college id comparison not the best one. Our family came to this country by respecting the laws, not by choosing the laws that were convenient and griping about the laws that were not.