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Justice Department bars Texas voter ID law
Washington Post ^ | March 12, 2012 | By Sari Horwitz

Posted on 03/12/2012 9:15:38 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Edited on 03/12/2012 10:03:50 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

The Justice Department has blocked a new law in Texas requiring voters to show a photo ID, saying that it disproportionately harms Hispanic residents.

The action is the second time in three months that the Obama administration has blocked a state voter ID law. In December, the Justice Department struck down South Carolina’s new law requiring photo identification at the polls, saying it discriminated against minority voters. [snip]


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: amnesty; crt; dojoutofcontrol; election2012; texas; texasvoterid; vote; votefraud; votingrightsact
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1 posted on 03/12/2012 9:15:50 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Whatever happened to “States’ Rights?”


2 posted on 03/12/2012 9:17:38 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Our 1st complaint against King George III in the Declaration of Independence:

“He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public Good.”

3 posted on 03/12/2012 9:20:21 AM PDT by Jacquerie (No court will save us from ourselves.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
USJD says that the measure may disproportionately harm (keep from voting) illegal aliens as that is what it was created to do.
4 posted on 03/12/2012 9:21:16 AM PDT by cotton
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

that the measure may disproportionately harm Hispanics

“May”?????

No evidence, no proof...just “may”.

Proper response is “scru u”.

They need id’s to get welfare and the other freebies from the taxpayers...somehow they have id for that....


5 posted on 03/12/2012 9:21:16 AM PDT by Adder (Da bro has GOT to go!)
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To: stars & stripes forever

Whatever happened to “States’ Rights?”


About the only one left today is your ‘right’ to send to DC your tax dollars.......

Interestingly enough the piece of legislation known as the Voting Rights Act was signed into law by Texan Lyndon Baines Johnson in 1965.


6 posted on 03/12/2012 9:21:58 AM PDT by deport (..............God Bless Texas............)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Of course it’s biased ... against people who aren’t entitled to vote.


7 posted on 03/12/2012 9:22:37 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

While I’m not a Perry fan, he would get lotsa points for treating Obama/Holder like a 2YO with a tantrum, tell them “NO!”, with ho explaination, enforce it FULLY and let the cards fall where they may with the voters.


8 posted on 03/12/2012 9:22:42 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If you are a US citizen and qualified to vote you have a TX driver’s license or some other form of official ID such as SS card etc. If you don’t have that ID you are probably an illegal alien. The DOJ knows this as well.

Illegal alien = Democratic voter


9 posted on 03/12/2012 9:24:23 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: stars & stripes forever

dems think they’re too stupid.


10 posted on 03/12/2012 9:24:49 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: stars & stripes forever
“Whatever happened to “States’ Rights?”

You can kiss them goodbye. Adolf Obozo and his goons Need those Illegal ‘s votes to stay in power. Its all about control.

11 posted on 03/12/2012 9:26:17 AM PDT by mongo141 (Revolution ver 2.0, just a matter of when, not a matter of if!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The Dimmocrats cannot allow for Voter ID bill to stand in Texas. They have been stuffing ballot boxes here for more than 60 years.

LBJ's Box 13 scandal from 1948

12 posted on 03/12/2012 9:26:50 AM PDT by tpmintx (Problem: The people who work for a living are outnumbered by those who VOTE for a living.)
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To: stars & stripes forever
Once again, the Federal Government, created to preserve the "Blessings of Liberty," to the posterity of those who created our Federal Government, is demonstrating a bias in favor of those who have a perceived adverse interest to that posterity.

Whether this action is to protect those illegally in Texas, or is merely one more effort to create a sense of grievance among a particular ethnic group, intended to be exploited by Leftwing politicians, this interference is not right. The States were intended to have control of the suffrage, both State & Federal, within their borders. While there have been restrictions on that right, adopted by Constitutional Amendments, none of those Amendments has denied the right to require a proper form of identification.

William Flax

13 posted on 03/12/2012 9:27:20 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: tpmintx

They can’t allow any state to ID voters this year. Obama will need all the cheating he can get to win.


14 posted on 03/12/2012 9:31:18 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“disproportionately harm Hispanics”

Menaing the law would prevent Mexican illegal aliens form voting.


15 posted on 03/12/2012 9:31:36 AM PDT by CodeToad (I'm so right-wing if I lifted my left leg I'd go into a spin.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I hate it when the feds mess with Texas.


16 posted on 03/12/2012 9:32:19 AM PDT by texaschick
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To: onedoug

Texas reps should write a bill to impeach Holder and then go on every TV station and radio program and scream that this is violating states rights.

I would make this a campaign issue in a heartbeat. The usurper in chief has got to go.


17 posted on 03/12/2012 9:32:22 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Solyent Pink is Sheeple!!!!)
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To: Georgia Girl 2
or some other form of official ID such as SS card etc.


But that isn't a 'photo ID' which was being put into place.

2. What kind of identification will be required to qualify to vote in person under the new program?

A: A voter will be required to show one of the following forms of photo identification at the polling location before the voter will be permitted to cast a vote.

With the exception of the U.S. citizenship certificate, the identification must be current or have expired no more than 60 days before being presented for voter qualification at the polling place. 


18 posted on 03/12/2012 9:33:11 AM PDT by deport (..............God Bless Texas............)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The U.S. Justice Department is using its power under the Voting Rights Act to halt the Texas law, saying in a letter to the state today that the measure may disproportionately harm Hispanics.

Okay. WHY?
Is the Federal Government claiming that Hispanics are incompetent? That they lack the knowledge or abilities needed to acquire the proper ID?
Are they claiming that Hispanics don’t drive, don’t work, don’t buy houses, don’t rent apartments and hundreds of other daily activities that require photo ID?


19 posted on 03/12/2012 9:35:06 AM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I sign up for the New American Revolution and the Crusades 2012?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It won’t harm Hispanics, only illegals.


20 posted on 03/12/2012 9:36:12 AM PDT by Hattie
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