A federal ruling that Texas’ strict voter ID law discriminates against minority voters has kicked off a rapid-fire legal race over whether photo identification will be required on Election Day this November.
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Judge Rules Texas Voter ID Law Unconstitutional
Less than two weeks before the start of early voting, a federal judge ruled the state’s photo voter ID law unconstitutional late Thursday and ordered state officials to drop the new requirements.
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Demographics
Criminal Appeals Court Judge Sues State Over Voter ID Law
While a federal judge in Corpus Christi mulls whether the state’s requirement to show photo ID to cast a ballot violates the Voting Rights Act, a judge on the highest criminal appeals court in Texas has sued the state over its voter ID law.
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Criminal Justice
Federal Judge Hears Closing Arguments in Texas Voter ID Trial
Texas’ voter ID law was designed to thwart emerging minority voting power in the state and should be dropped, attorneys for the law’s opponents said during closing arguments in a federal court on Monday.
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Analysis: The Voter ID You Won’t Need to Show When You’re at the Polls
The only identification that you have that says you are, in fact, a registered voter is the one ID you do not need when you go cast a vote.
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Criminal Justice
Senator: State Not Moving to Make Voter IDs Available
Texas Senate Democrats say their request for more mobile units on Texas streets to give voters without an acceptable photo ID a chance to get one before November’s election have been virtually ignored.
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Criminal Justice
Democratic Lawmakers Ask For More Mobile Voter ID Units
Members of the Senate Democratic Caucus, concerned over the low number of residents eligible to vote who have no photo indentification to do so have asked Secretary of State Nandita Berry to work on making mobile ID units more available between now and November.
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Criminal Justice
Testimony Begins in Trial Over State’s Voter ID Law
In a trial that’s expected to last two weeks, plaintiff’s lawyers are arguing that Texas’ voter ID law is designed to neutralize the voting power of Texas’ growing minority population. But lawyers with the AG’s office say that the law is focused on stamping out fraud.
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Criminal Justice
Texas Voter ID Law Trial Begins in Corpus Christi
The three-year-old Texas voter ID law heads to federal court on Tuesday, where a judge will determine whether the measure requiring voters to present photo identification at polling places is unfair to minority voters.
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Criminal Justice
Elections Officials See Few Voter ID Issues During Early Voting
Elections officials across the state said that voter ID was hardly an issue during the 11-day early voting period that led up to Tuesday’s primary. But opponents say the law has already disenfranchised voters.
