Federal Court Blocks Texas Voter I.D. Law on Grounds It Violates Voting Rights Act
A federal court has ruled that Texas’s voter I.D. law violates Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act and was “enacted for discriminatory purposes.” 
The Texas law, adopted in 2011, requires that voters show one of six forms of I.D. before being allowed to vote.
The court found that the law would “fall most heavily on the poor and that a disproportionately high percentage of African-Americans and Hispanics in Texas live in poverty.”
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said he will appeal the decision to the Supreme Court.
“Today’s decision is wrong on the law and improperly prevents Texas from implementing the same type of ballot integrity safeguards that are employed by Georgia and Indiana, and were upheld by the Supreme Court,” he said.
Although Georgia does have the same law, that state has made an effort to get everyone an I.D. Texas has made no such effort. This accounts for why the Justice Department can intervene in some states and not others. In cases where the Justice Department has gotten involved based on a Section 5 violation, it has been largely successful.
This is the second blow for Texas in less than a week since earlier in the week, a different panel of the same court rejected Texas’ redistricting maps, saying they discriminated against blacks and Hispanics. Now Texas will be forced to use interim maps drawn up by a San Antonio federal court for the November 6 elections.
Luis Vera, an attorney for the League of United Latin American Citizens, called the ruling “better late than never” and a win for minority rights groups.
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Why are Black people, still fighting for the right to vote? How can these voters keep voting for these parties when NONE OF THEM DON’T CARE ABOUT US?
If these parties cared about us, wouldn’t y’all think they would be calling out these areas where they are keeping us from casting our votes. Shouldn’t O’Drama be the head man to call these racist demon/devils out, especially if he wanted our votes?
WAKE UP FOLKS; YOU ARE BEING TRICKED AGAIN BY THESE POLI(TRICKSTERS)!!! If our votes meant that much to any of these parties, both of them should be DEMANDING that our votes get counted!!!
These caucasoids know how to run game on weak thinking negroids and they are not going stop!
Our vote means a lot, that’s why Republicans are trying to suppress the vote. They cannot win on their policies and by playing fair. That’s why corporations and rich people have put millions behind Romney, new voter ID laws and negative ad campaigns, to sway voters away or to their side. African Americans did not put President Obama in office alone, but we played a big part in it. That’s why the GOP is trying so hard to block blacks, other minorities, seniors and poor people from voting. We 100% made a difference when President Obama won. The people who don’t vote are the reason we have so many Republicans in Washington blocking Obama from making positive things happen, that would help the American people.