Fighting over voting rights

Right before the back-to-back Republican and Democratic National Conventions, a three-judge panel in Washington, D.C. threw out Texas’ recent voter ID law. The law would have required picture identification for all voters in local, county, state and federal elections across Texas, but the law was tossed out based on the potential for this law to discriminate against poor voters, which are disproportionately minority. The lawsuit came about, as have challenges to Texas’ recent Congressional and state house redistricting, due to the requirement from the 1965 Voting Rights Act that states with a history of racial discrimination get approval from the federal government for any changes in laws which effect voting  Read More

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