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Last year, the department used the section to file two lawsuits in Texas to stop a newly enacted voter ID law and to obtain a ruling that Texas engaged in intentional discrimination in its 2011 redistricting plan. In North …Washington Post · BySari Horwitz · 6 hours ago
Over the last four years, laws making it harder to vote have been spreading across the country, including in Texas. And ALEC has been in the thick of it. A voter ID bill passed in 2011 in Texas closely resembles ALEC’s “Voter ID Act.” The Texas bill ...Daily Kos · 1 day ago
2 http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/texas-voter-id-law-struck-down/2012/08/30/4a07e270-f2ad-11e1-adc6-87dfa8eff430_story.html. Yes, Texas’ law was later implemented after a 2013 Supreme Court ruling gutting a relevant portion of …Mankato Free Press · 7/25/2014
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At issue is a Wisconsin law that requires voters to present photo ID at the polls and an Ohio law ... last year wiped out a major provision of the Voting Rights Act. Last year the department sued Texas and North …FOX 6 Now · 17 hours ago
Shortly after the Supreme Court struck down a key portion of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, Texas announced that it would move ahead with the implementation of a law passed in 2011 that requires voters to show photo identification in order to cast their ballot.US News and World Report · 7/28/2014
A federal court on Thursday blocked a Texas law that would have required voters to show photo identification, ruling that the legislation would impose “strict, unforgiving burdens” on poor minority voters. Describing the law as the most stringent in ...Washington Post · BySari Horwitz · 8/30/2012
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has sued over voter ID laws in Texas and North Carolina and he said earlier this month his agency would likely weigh in on the Wisconsin cases. Also Wednesday, the department he heads filed a brief challenging recent …Milwaukee Journal Sentinel · ByPatrick Marley · 15 hours ago
HOUSTON — First, Judge Sandra Watts was stopped while trying to vote because the name on her photo ID, the same one she had used for voter registration and identification for 52 years, did not exactly match her …New York Times · 11/7/2013
The Justice Department has already sued North Carolina and Texas over its voting laws. In Wisconsin ... and a substantial number of them were low-income earners who don't need a photo ID in their daily life or who …Wall Street Journal · ByDevlin Barrett · 12 hours ago
AUSTIN — Texas voters are going to the polls Tuesday to vote on a slew of constitutional and municipal issues, from funding water projects to granting tax breaks to aerospace companies. But a deeper question is how …USA Today · ByRick Jervis andEst November · 11/5/2013
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