In the latest step in a lawsuit that may end up at the U.S. Supreme Court, Texas’ five-year-old voter identification law will face a fresh round of probing in New Orleans Tuesday.
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Analysis: A Texas Judge Takes Voter ID to Court
The only Democrat in an elected statewide post in Texas is suing to upend the state’s photo voter ID law, saying it’s an unconstitutional obstacle to a legal activity: voting.
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Analysis: Scant Evidence for Abbott’s “Rampant” Voter Fraud
It’s true that Texas has cases of voter fraud, but it’s more a trickle than a flood. Gov. Greg Abbott says that voter fraud is “rampant,” but the numbers don’t seem to bear that out.
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Politics
Abbott Dismisses Obama Criticism of Texas Voter Turnout Efforts
“The fact is that voter fraud is rampant,” Abbott said in response to President Barack Obama’s suggestion last week that Texas leaders are uninterested in improving voter turnout.
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Energy
Roundup: 2016, Voter ID Law, Hell and High Water
In the Roundup: Ted Cruz appears positioned to go head to head with Donald Trump for the GOP presidential nomination, a federal appeals court will again examine Texas’ controversial voter ID law, and the upper Texas coast remains vulnerable to a storm’s direct hit.
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Criminal Justice
Federal Appeals Court Will Revisit Texas Voter ID Law
The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals agreed Wednesday to take up the Texas voter ID case, adding another chapter to the law’s convoluted journey through the federal court system.
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Politics
Study: Law Discouraged More Than Those Without Voter ID
Texas’ strict voter identification requirements kept many would-be voters in a Latino-majority congressional district from going to the polls last November — including many who had proper IDs — a new survey shows.
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Politics
Court: Texas Voter ID Law Violates Voting Rights Act
Texas’ four-year-old voter ID law violates the Voting Rights Act but is not a “poll tax” barred under the U.S. Constitution, a federal appeals court has ruled.
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Voting Rights Bill Would Address, Not Invalidate, Texas Voter ID Law
A voting rights bill introduced in Congress last week would subject Texas elections to new levels of federal scrutiny, but it would not invalidate the state’s controversial 2011 voter photo ID law that helped inspire it.
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Demographics
Judge: Why Didn’t State Lawmakers Address Voter ID Concerns?
A Republican-appointed federal appellate judge on Tuesday questioned why the Texas Legislature had not addressed concerns that its four-year-old voter ID law discriminated against minority voters.
