Fifth Circuit Hears Texas Voter ID Arguments

[TexasTowelie]

The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals finally waded into the Texas voter ID law case on Tuesday, and based on how things went, it's almost impossible to guess how the Fifth will rule.

Texas has one of the strictest voter ID laws in the country. The law, Senate Bill 14, was passed by the state legislature and signed into law by then-Gov. Rick Perry in 2011, requiring all voters to present one of the listed acceptable forms of photo ID in order to vote.

Opponents of the law have maintained that the old voter ID requirements, where people could show up with any ID, down to a utility bill, worked perfectly and that people never used the loose requirements to do any sneaky voting.

The defendants argued that the law prevents voter fraud by ensuring that those who vote are who they claim to be based on their photo ID.

Read more: http://blogs.houstonpress.com/news/2015/04/fifth_circuit_panel_hear_texas_voter_id_arguments.php

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

1. Unconstitutional to require anything, period. If you are registered, you vote, period

[Thinkingabout]

2. Well, it did not stop voter fraud in Fort Bend County when a voter voted in Pennsylvania

and Texas because he claimed he was entitled to do so because he owned a home in both states. He also ran for an office in Fort Bend. Oh, forgot, he could do this, he is a republican.