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Appeals court reinstates Texas voter ID law
news.yahoo.com ^ | 10/14/14 | Jim Vertuno

Posted on 10/14/2014 3:08:10 PM PDT by cotton1706

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal appeals court on Tuesday reinstated Texas' tough voter ID law for the November election, which the U.S. Justice Department had condemned as the state's latest means of suppressing minority voter turnout.

The ruling by the New Orleans-based 5th Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily blocks last week's ruling by U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos in Corpus Christi, who determined the law unconstitutional and similar to a poll tax designed to dissuade minorities from voting.

The 5th Circuit did not rule on the merits of the law; instead, it determined it's too late to change the rules for the upcoming election. Early voting starts Oct. 20.

The law remains under appeal. For now, the ruling is a key victory for Republican-backed photo ID measures that have swept across the U.S. in recent years. The Texas law, considered the toughest of its kind in the nation, requires that an estimated 13.6 million registered Texas voters will need one of seven kinds of photo identification to cast a ballot.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: electionfraud; elections; texas; votefraud; voterfraud; voterid
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1 posted on 10/14/2014 3:08:11 PM PDT by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706

Finally! a bit of good news.


2 posted on 10/14/2014 3:12:34 PM PDT by mylife
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To: cotton1706

LOL - EXCELLENT!!!!!


3 posted on 10/14/2014 3:12:48 PM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: cotton1706

Daggummit! Why can’t someone do that for Wisconsin?


4 posted on 10/14/2014 3:13:27 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: mylife

I am sure, even now, some commie-pinko lawyers are shopping for equally commie-pinko judges to file an injunction against it being applied until the appeal can be appealed...


5 posted on 10/14/2014 3:15:41 PM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: cotton1706

Bttt


6 posted on 10/14/2014 3:16:28 PM PDT by jazusamo (Sometimes I think that this is an era when sanity has become controversial: Thomas Sowell)
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To: Little Ray

No doubt.


7 posted on 10/14/2014 3:17:26 PM PDT by mylife
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To: cotton1706

Get it done, Texas.


8 posted on 10/14/2014 3:18:07 PM PDT by Politicalkiddo (Power always thinks.. that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws. -John Adams)
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To: cotton1706

Couldn’t they have waited til election eve?


9 posted on 10/14/2014 3:18:35 PM PDT by Defiant (4 main US grps: conservatives, useless idiots (aka RINOs), marxists and useful idiots (aka liberals))
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To: mylife

By next week Democrats will have this over turned....again


10 posted on 10/14/2014 3:19:31 PM PDT by blueyon (The U. S. Constitution - read it and weep)
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To: cotton1706
"The Justice Department says more than 600,000 of those voters, mostly blacks and Hispanics, lack eligible ID."

That's preposterous on its face.

11 posted on 10/14/2014 3:20:41 PM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: cotton1706

WHAM! That’ll leave a mark on the Left’s ego.


12 posted on 10/14/2014 3:21:34 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Blog: www.BackwoodsEngineer.com)
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To: Little Ray

good luck getting around an Appeals court, even Commie Judges don’t like getting overruled and trying another injunction would get a serious slapdown and talking to from the Appeals Court


13 posted on 10/14/2014 3:23:41 PM PDT by ClayinVA ("Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it")
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To: cotton1706

photo ID measures work here in TN. It’s a lot better than it was, some in the past have shown up to vote, only to see that they had already voted....


14 posted on 10/14/2014 3:23:59 PM PDT by EXCH54FE (Hurricane 416,Feisty Old Vet !!)
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To: cotton1706

Thomas, Alito and Scalia dissented in the Wisconsin case which was a one page ruling allowing voters in Wisconsin to vote without having ID. THE SCOTUS did not rule on the constitutionality of the Wisconsin voter ID though. Still it is very troubling to follow what the SCOTUS has been doing of late.


15 posted on 10/14/2014 3:24:27 PM PDT by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: cotton1706

one of seven kinds of photo identification to cast a ballot.

OMG! Where is an undocumented alien going to get one
in time to vote democrat? It’s not fffffair! /s


16 posted on 10/14/2014 3:24:37 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: cotton1706
U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos

Take a hike  racist judge! Her minority supremacism was stifled. Blacks, Hispanics, whites and others, go get your photo IDs if you wish to vote. Don't just "show up"

17 posted on 10/14/2014 3:25:50 PM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: cotton1706

Rand Paul - deeply saddened


18 posted on 10/14/2014 3:25:53 PM PDT by lormand (Inside every liberal is a dung slinging monkey)
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To: cotton1706

Hurray for the Home Team!


19 posted on 10/14/2014 3:27:08 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Obama and the Left are maggots feeding off the flesh of the United States.)
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To: cotton1706

U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos in Corpus Christi

Dumb ass...


20 posted on 10/14/2014 3:28:09 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Obama and the Left are maggots feeding off the flesh of the United States.)
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