A three-judge panel of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on Thursday unanimously rejected
Texas’s voter ID law, which required court approval to take effect. The
court described the law, known as SB 14, as “the most stringent in the
country.”
Under the law, voters who do not have a driver’s license might have to
pay $22 to get documents necessary to obtain a state ID card, and some
would need to travel 250 miles round-trip to get the card. The court
said, “Undisputed record evidence demonstrates that racial minorities in
Texas are disproportionally likely to live in poverty and, because SB
14 will weigh more heavily on the poor, the law will likely have
retrogressive effect,” reducing the number of minority voters.
This is an editorial in the New York Times. Tom
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