The Texas Senate tentatively approved legislation that would revamp the state’s voter identification rules, a response to court rulings that the current law discriminates against minority voters.
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Analysis: Texas could find itself back in the voting rights penalty box
The federal judges who said the state’s congressional maps are invalid last week are in position to take another step — to require Texas to get federal permission whenever it wants to change election and voting laws.
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Senate Committee approves Texas voter ID overhaul
A Texas Senate panel has advanced a bill that would overhaul the state voter identification rules, an effort to comply with court rulings that the current law discriminates against black and Latino voters.
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Trump administration confirms plans to drop key claim against Texas Voter ID
The U.S. Department of Justice confirmed Monday it plans to ditch its longstanding position that Texas lawmakers purposefully discriminated against minority voters by passing the nation’s strictest voter identification law in 2011.
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Texas Republicans pitch new voter ID law
Top Texas Republicans unveiled legislation Tuesday that would overhaul the state’s voter identification rules, an effort to comply with court rulings that have found the current law discriminates against minority groups.
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Trump says Texan is source for unsupported voter fraud claim
In a tweet Friday, President Donald Trump wrote that the source behind his unsupported voter fraud claim is Gregg Phillips, a former Texas official with the Health and Human Services Commission.
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Trump’s anti-voter fraud crusade revives issue in Texas
Following President Donald Trump’s latest unsubstantiated claim that voter fraud cost him the popular vote, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said “voter fraud is real” in an interview on Fox News Wednesday morning.
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Supreme Court rejects Texas voter ID appeal — for now
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up Texas’ effort salvage its strict voter identification law, handing at least a temporary victory to civil rights advocates who have successfully argued that the law discriminates against minorities.
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Texas elector says he couldn’t vote amid voter ID confusion
Chris Suprun, one of two Texas Republican electors who refused to vote for Donald Trump in the Electoral College, says he was twice turned away from voting in the general election.
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In latest voter ID filing, feds argue Texas discriminated on purpose
The Obama administration is arguing that Texas lawmakers intentionally discriminated when they passed a strict voter ID law in 2011. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton refuted the arguments in his own filing.