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Attorney General Eric Holder speaks at the American Bar Association's annual meeting in San Francisco last week. (Photo: Tony Avelar, epa) WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration went to court Thursday to block Texas' tough new voter ID law …USA Today · ByRichard Wolf andKevin Johnson · 8/23/2013
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 name on the official voter rolls.New York Times · 11/6/2013
WASHINGTON -- Texas will "immediately" implement a voter ID law that a panel of federal judges ruled last year would impose “strict, unforgiving burdens on the poor," a top state official said Tuesday. The decision to go forward with a measure that those ...The Huffington Post · 6/25/2013
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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 ...The Nation · ByAri Berman · 10/23/2013
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
True the Vote backs voter ID laws, citizenship verification for voter registration ... The U.S. Justice Department approved all of nearly 12,000 requested election law changes in Texas over a 10-year period ending in 2007 …The Journal Gazette · 29 minutes ago
In Texas, where early voting for the Nov. 5 elections started on Monday, the state’s controversial photo ID law is being enforced for the first time as citizens cast their ballots. In 2012, the Department of Justice found that the law discriminated ...Swampland Time · 10/24/2013
Texas election officials can go ahead and enforce a controversial voter identification law opposed by the Obama administration and civil rights groups, the U.S. Supreme Court said early Saturday. The decision comes just two days before early voting begins ...CNN · ByJason Hanna andMichael Pearson · 10/19/2014
Charles Perry filed two bills with the aim of ensuring election integrity in the state of Texas. “My first Session, I was proud to co-sponsor and help pass the Voter ID bill,” said Senator ... selection process. Current law …Your Houston News · 1 hour ago
WASHINGTON — The implications of today’s landmark ruling could be swift and stunning. With the Supreme Court suspending the mechanism that forced Texas to get a federal OK before it can implement any election law change, state Attorney General …Dallas Morning News · ByTodd J. Gillman · 6/25/2013
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