On June 26, Texas Congressman Marc Veasey, who is African-American, and eight other plaintiffs filed a new lawsuit against the Texas photo-ID law for voters at the polls. Veasey v Perry, 2:13-cv-193, southern district. Some of the plaintiffs are voters who lack the approved forms of ID. Others have state ID but the name on the voter’s ID and the name of the voter on the voter registration rolls don’t exactly match and the voter has not been able to resolve the problem.
The Texas law passed in 2011, but it has not yet been implemented, because Texas, as a covered state under the federal Voting Rights Act, had brought a lawsuit (which is permitted under the Voting Rights Act) to persuade a 3-judge court in Washington, D.C., that the Texas law should be pre-cleared. States covered by section 5 of the Voting Rights Act always had the ability to go to court if they didn’t trust the Attorney General of the United States to do a fair job of deciding whether to approve the law.
Texas’ lawsuit had backfired, because the 3-judge court had determined that the photo-ID law would have a racially discriminatory effect. But after the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act earlier this week, the Texas Attorney General had announced the law would now be enforced. The new lawsuit is brought under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which covers the entire nation and which was not injured by the U.S. Supreme Court ruling. Thus, the predictions that the invalidation of Section 4 of the Act would lead to more litigation has already come true.
How many of the usual suspect leftwing groups want ILLEGAL folks to be voting in gerrymander districts to get POWER ???
Have any of the various MORONS looked at 14th Amdt, Sec. 2 — at least for males ??? — sorry females not mentioned.
also expect fresh New York State Supreme Court lawsuit to be filed in Albany County (Capitol) challenging the recent state legislative redistricting scheme and decision of the NYS Court of Appeals using in part the federal voting rights Act preclearance requirement as a litigation shield.
Good questions. Well, now let’s see.
In Florida, for example, in 2012 they worked five months to scrub the voter rolls of noncitizens. Out of about 11 MILLION registered voters they found 207 noncitizens, 15 of whom voted.
For the usual suspect fact challenged right wing MORONS out there, those numbers are roughly 2 thousandths of a percent and 1 TEN THOUSANDTHS of a percent of the total of registered voters.
At this rate, for the usual suspect MORON left wing groups to take POWER in a gerrymandered district, they will have to smuggle over the border every foreign tongued person on the planet.
Gerrymandered districts are going to get mighty crowded!
Now I have a question for the usual suspect MORON loons out there. If you came to this country illegally and were worried about being deported, how STUPID would you have to be to register to vote?
Oh wait. I see an EXAMPLE above. NEVER MIND.
Where are the answers to the original questions ???
I gave THEM but I guess you didn’t NOTICE