[markomalley]

Some of the most pitifully biased reporting that I've seen for a while.

It's really simple. Texas wants Voter ID. Holder realizes that Voter ID will hurt their ability to throw the election and so has refused to grant preclearance of the Texas law. Texas is taking Holder to court. (which, by the way, the VRA allows them to do)

Reporters. Idiots. (I guess I repeated myself)

[Yo-Yo]

My state of Michigan and several others require picture ID at the polling place, so what’s the problem with Texas also requiring exactly the same thing?

It is because thanks to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 certain states are under federal oversight because of “historic” prejudical treatment of minority voters.

If non-supervised states can enact voter ID laws and not have any demonstrable problems, then the Feds should allow supervised states to enact similar legislation.

[aposiopetic]

the Obama administration blocked a Texas law passed in 2011 requiring voters to present photo identification at the polls, saying it was unfair to minority voters

Why? They're camera-shy, or don't photograph well?

[okie01]

Some of the most pitifully biased reporting that I've seen for a while.

The reporter was either smart enough to be "pitifully biased" or too damn dumb to recognize the issue involved.

It's one or the other -- "pitifully biased" or "pitifully dumb". There is no other option.

[Logical me]

Unfortunately Texas will lose. The corruption has saturated so much of Government that it wouldn't matter what the Court said. We are under siege by a communists empire that has a great deal of America under control. Only chance we have is to pray and work hard in kicking King Obama out in November.

[GregoTX]

Even if it was upheld... Texas has motor voter. Illegals can get a driver's license here, and when they do DPS offers them the opportunity to register to vote.

In Texas we give illegals ID's and "motor voter" register them to vote.... so what if we ask for the ID at the polls? They were given the ID and voter registration by the State.

America is on self destruct mode.

[RobbyS]

A law that should have had a sunset provision. Once the more egregious state laws restricting black voting and keeping black persons from office were eliminated, the blacks and other minorities should have been allowed to sink or swim on their own merits. The thousands of black officials in the Southern states lives the lie to the notion that they need further protection. Ditto for the Mexicans, first second, and third generations. The requirement of ID for voting in an election is one way of leveling the field and making all voters more responsible for their own actions. For too long, deceased and otherwise inelligible voters have helped decide elections. What happened in Duval County in 1948 changed the course of American history. Everyone knows that Lyndon Johnson did not win that election far and square. Yet by votes “suddenly” discovered in that county by its Anglo political boss, Johnson’s career moved forward to what results we know all too well.