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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“cuz Walker hates teachers!”
/sarc
“U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos in Corpus Christi
Dumb ass...”
In other words, another “wise Latrina!”
The Supremes put a hold on the Texas abortion law not on ID’s. Sorry for the confusion.
“That`s what I am thinking, I suspect the Liberal Roberts Court will overturn it any day now.”
But, if they did that, wouldn’t that constitute an “activist” court? We know he can’t abide that, don’t we?
You sent a few of us into cardiac arrest.
GOOD NEWS
In my perfect world, in order to vote at all, you would have to show up with a receipt for the previous year’s property tax bill marked PAID in order to vote.
It is when you consider that most of those Hispanics are illegal aliens.
Checks are no longer used. They get a prepaid card that gets a deposit into their account once a month. But I see your point. They have to have an ID to get booze or cigarettes.
Yep, I think she’s in a category with a lot of other well know Latrinas.
Heh heh heh...
And THAT is the arrow in the center of the target. The libs will have a huge problem getting ID cards for illegal aliens so that they can vote. That is, as we all know, the crux of their angst.
bttt
You’re confusing early voting with absentee voting; the latter involves mailing in a paper ballot, while early voting involves going to one of many designated polling places in the County, showing a photo ID, verification of valid voter registration and then voting. This is in Texas, of course.
Nicely done...
They get one of theirs to push...
We’ll get ours to push back harder.
Yes!!!
Watch for Roberts, Kennedy, and the 4 Communists to weigh in on this one by the weekend. Even though SCOTUS ruled 6-3 in 2006 in Crawford v Marion Co. Indiana was Constitutional.
I stand corrected. We don’t have that kind of early voting where I live. We have mail in voting, though. It used to be absentee voting, but then it changed to where you don’t have to be absent, just lazy.
Since everyone has to register, I wonder how it’s difficult to produce ID.
I had to be fingerprinted to be in the military. Recently, I was again for a different job. In the past it was ink and cardboard. This time it was simply placing my fingers on a glass screen. It took only a minute...maybe just seconds.
It seems really easy to register and supply fingerprints. Then isometric proof of identity could be near immediately verified by a thumbprint on a screen at a voting precinct.
This would tend to cut down on the deceased voting population, I would think.
But, the bottom line is that the argument “discriminating against minorities who can’t always come up with a finger or a thumb” would be laughable.
Meanwhile, in Tennessee we provide ID before voting
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