1. Federal Court Finds Texas Voter ID Requirements Discriminatory
Just days after a federal court in Washington, DC found that Texas' redistricting maps were discriminatory, another three-judge panel in the nation's capitol found that it was unlawful to require voters to present photo ID's to election officials before they would be allowed to vote in the upcoming presidential elections in November. ... Attorney General Eric Holder compared the voter ID law to poll taxes enforced in the days after Reconstruction when blacks were not allowed to vote. ... "We don't want people voting multiple times" and "you can get a photo ID free from yo...
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