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Sunday, July 09, 2017

Justice Department OKs Texas Voter ID Law

The Department of Justice will withdraw from a legal challenge to Texas’ voter ID law, after the state legislature enacted several legislative fixes to the law to assuage the Department’s concerns.

Reuters reports that the Department filed a motion informing the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas that it would withdraw from a challenge to the law because the state’s new amendment to the statute “removes any ‘discriminatory effect’ or intent the Court found … and advances Texas’s legitimate ‘policy objectives’ in adopting a voter ID law.” The amendment Texas adopted eased some of the law’s photo identification requirements.

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2 comments:

Steve said...

Good. 49 to go.

Anonymous said...

My understanding is that every voting Precinct that had photo ID did not go to Obama in past elections. Also I understand minorities in the majority love voter ID