On January 30, U.S. District Court Judge Orlando Garcia, a Clinton appointee, ruled that Texas has not been obeying the federal “Motor Voter” Law, and ordered the state to register the plaintiffs who had filed the lawsuit. The federal law says that when unregistered individuals interact with a state agency, they must be given the opportunity to register to vote, or to update their address. The order finds that Texas has not been doing this for people who update their address for drivers licenses on-line. Stringer v Cascos, w.d., 5:16cv-257. The case was filed in 2016.
You can not apply for a Texas drivers license online.
You can renew a drivers license online or by mail, or also update your address. If someone did go to the TXDOT office to renew a license, it would be prima facie evidence of mental incompetence that would disqualify a voter.
thank you. I revised the post.
Curiously, when you complete your registration online, you are offered an option to tweet it or post it to Facebook.
TX regime in cahoots with Russia/China re the Facebook stuff ???
or merely DNC or RNC ???
What percent of folks have ZERO evidence that they are USA Citizens ???
IE – olde birth papers NOT showing the nation-state status of alleged fathers.
IE ALLEGIANCE chain from 1775-1776 to now.
See 1776 DOI – last para.
The original decision was overturned by the 5th Circuit due to lack of standing. The original suit was filed in 2016 claiming that the plaintiffs were unable to vote in 2014, and their provisional ballots were not counted. The appeal had been decided in 2018.
In December 2019 a new lawsuit was filed, and it was joined to the original law suit that had been idle, apparently with the remand never executed. The injunction is apparently limited to three named plaintiffs.
Texas law names the Department of Public Safety as a voter registration agency, and requires in-person applicants to be registered. It also requires that mail-in updates be sent a registration card. That statute was last updated in 1997, before there was widespread web access. IIRC, it used to be that DPS clients would just be offered a registration card that the voter would fill out, and the DPS would hopefully deliver to voter registration officials. It is much more reliable to use the data supplied as part of an application. The address might actually be checked, and people probably will use their actual name on something used for identification.
The real solution is to have federal-issued IDs. When someone moves they would update the address, and the federal government would inform election officials automatically updating voter registration. After 5 years, a state could choose to accept only the federal ID for new registrants.
666 Fed ID law ???
How many ILLEGAL INVADERS in Texas ???
— esp to be counted in the 2020 USA Census — to get some ILLEGAL added USA Reps — more $$$ POWER in the USA minority rule gerrymander H Reps.
Same for CA, AZ, NM, CO, FL, etc. —
net more in commie vs fascist gerrymander State ???