Texas Voter ID Law Discriminates Against Women, Students, and Minorities.

[DhhD]

http://billmoyers.com/2013/10/23/texas-voter-id-law-discriminates-against-women-students-and-minorities/

Texas’s new voter ID law got off to a rocky start this week as early voting began for state constitutional amendments. The law was previously blocked as discriminatory by the federal courts under the Voting Rights Act in 2012, until the Supreme Court invalidated Section 4 of the VRA in June. (The Department of Justice has filed suit against the law under Section 2 of the VRA.) Now we are seeing the disastrous ramifications of the Supreme Court’s decision.

Based on Texas’ own data, 600,000 to 800,000 registered voters don’t have the government-issued ID needed to cast a ballot, with Hispanics 46 to 120 percent more likely than whites to lack an ID. But a much larger segment of the electorate, particularly women, will be impacted by the requirement that a voter’s ID be “substantially similar” to their name on the voter registration rolls. According to a 2006 study by the Brennan Center for Justice, a third of all women have citizenship documents that do not match their current legal name.

[DhhD]

1. State of Texas has no regulations against the issuance of aliases by state offices, still.

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Texas Department of Public Safety and the Texas Secretary of State Office procedures are causing voter problems.

[Gothmog]

2. The trial starts Sept. 2

I am hopeful that we will win this case but we have to plan to have Voter id in effect for 2014