Will it suppress the vote, as minority groups and Democrats allege? Or will it restore integrity and increase the state's abysmal turnout at the polls, as those who champion the measure say it will? Beginning in 2012, voters will be required to show a valid photo ID in order to cast a ballot. Gov. Rick Perry designated the legislation, which passed as Senate bill 14, by state Sen. Troy Fraser, R-Horseshoe Bay, as an emergency item. During the 2009 session, the voter ID bill came close to derailing the final weeks of the 81st Legislature as House Democrats engaged in...
