Posted on 11/06/2013 1:25:36 PM PST by cotton1706
Sen. Troy Fraser, R-Horseshoe Bay, says the Texas Secretary of State’s office believes that turnout for Tuesday’s election will be double that of the 2011 constitutional election, based on tracking early voting turnout, and he credited the law he passed requiring voters to show photo identification.
“I’m incredibly pleased with the initial rollout of voter ID,” said Fraser. “While there were rumblings that this law would disenfranchise voters, it turns out those claims were based on politics, not practicality,” he added.
Fraser said the new law was intended to increase public confidence in elections. “I’m confident that we accomplished just that; Texans were able to make their voices heard and know that they did so securely,” he said. “I feel comfortable in knowing that the election process will continue to run smoothly as we move forward. If this election was a test of the new voter ID system, the state passed with flying colors.”
The new law still faces a court challenge. Democratic and minority groups still maintain that the law suppresses voter turnout, especially among minorities, women and the poor. A Corpus Christi federal judge will hold a hearing in that case Nov. 15.
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Real Texans feel their vote might actually count for something and not be a waste of time.
“Democratic and minority groups still maintain that the law suppresses voter turnout, especially among minorities, women and the poor.”
And yet, no proof of that actually exists, ANYWHERE....
They are correct. It suppresses turnout of illegal aliens trying to cast votes. And that's the way it out to be.
This is the thing that DemocRats fear the most. Suppression of the base they fought so hard to get on to their plantation.
Sen. Troy Fraser, R-Horseshoe Bay, says the Texas Secretary of State’s office believes that turnout for Tuesday’s election will be double that of the 2011 constitutional election, based on tracking early voting turnout, and he credited the law he passed requiring voters to show photo identification. “I’m incredibly pleased with the initial rollout of voter ID,” said Fraser. “While there were rumblings that this law would disenfranchise voters, it turns out those claims were based on politics, not practicality,” he added.
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