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[h=1]Court Blocks Texas Voter ID Law, Citing Racial Impact[/h][h=6]By CHARLIE SAVAGE and MANNY FERNANDEZ[/h][h=6]Published: August 30, 2012 277 Comments[/h]
WASHINGTON A federal court on Thursday struck down a Texas law that would have required voters to show government-issued photo identification before casting their ballots in November, ruling that the law would hurt turnout among minority voters and impose strict, unforgiving burdens on the poor by charging those voters who lack proper documentation fees to obtain election ID cards
The three-judge panel in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia called Texas voter-identification law the most stringent of its kind in the country, though Gov. Rick Perry and the states attorney general vowed to appeal the decision to the United States Supreme Court. The judges ruling came just two days after another three-judge panel in the same court found that the Texas Legislature had intentionally discriminated against minority voters in drawing up new political maps for Congressional and legislative districts, citing the same section of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/31/us/court-blocks-tough-voter-id-law-in-texas.html?pagewanted=all
WASHINGTON A federal court on Thursday struck down a Texas law that would have required voters to show government-issued photo identification before casting their ballots in November, ruling that the law would hurt turnout among minority voters and impose strict, unforgiving burdens on the poor by charging those voters who lack proper documentation fees to obtain election ID cards
The three-judge panel in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia called Texas voter-identification law the most stringent of its kind in the country, though Gov. Rick Perry and the states attorney general vowed to appeal the decision to the United States Supreme Court. The judges ruling came just two days after another three-judge panel in the same court found that the Texas Legislature had intentionally discriminated against minority voters in drawing up new political maps for Congressional and legislative districts, citing the same section of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/31/us/court-blocks-tough-voter-id-law-in-texas.html?pagewanted=all
