As the political season heats up (or gets more depressing- take your pick), I look back on traveling through the south last year and seeing how the good folks in Montgomery, Alabama kept poor people from voting by demanding a drivers license that a lot of poor people didn’t have.
This week, the US supreme court refused to block the Texas law that asked for a photo ID at the polls. As the article continued:
The Law is the strictest in the nation, permitting only certain types of photo ID at the polls. Gun licenses are permitted, college ID is not. It was enacted to cut down on in-person voter fraud, but only 2 people were convicted of voter fraud in Texas in the last 10 years.
A federal district judge rules that it was passed in the Texas State Legislature in 2011 with a “Discriminatory purpose and could disenfranchise about 600,000 voters, most of whom were black or Hispanic. Three days later a three judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals blocked that judges ruling from taking affect, and the Supreme court ruling allows the as of today the law stands.
Oh well, guess if you are a minority in Texas, you don’t have to choose between all the morons that are running this year! Maybe that’s a good thing!!!