David Saleh Rauf
The Houston Chronicle
AUSTIN - A federal judge on Tuesday ordered Texas to amend its voter ID education materials, including news releases, polling location posters and websites, to correctly conform with her earlier mandate, a rebuke of the state's $2.5 million outreach effort.
The Obama administration accused Texas earlier this month of using everything from a state website for voting to training documents for elections officials to narrow "dramatically the scope of voters protected" under a voter ID order signed last month by U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos.
The U.S Department of Justice asked Ramos to force Texas to change the wording of public education and poll worker information moving forward and to ensure television and radio ads "accurately reflect the text of the Remedial Order."
Ramos on Tuesday sided with the Justice Department, ordering Texas to reissue voter ID press releases, revise websites with voting information, edit a poster to be used at polling locations and make sure all education materials reflect the court's order moving forward.
Ramos also required Texas to share copies of documents and scripts for radio and television ads with the Justice Department and several minority groups. However, the judge stopped short of requiring Texas to amend training materials for poll workers and election officials that already have been published.
"If it's possible to be fixed, it has to fixed," said Chad Dunn, a lawyer representing U.S. Rep. Marc Veasey, D-Fort Worth, and the League of United Latin American Citizens in the case. "The more the public has an understanding there's procedures in place to make voting secure and easy the better."
A July ruling from the full 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found the state's voter ID law discriminates against minorities.
The appeals court ordered Ramos to soften the measure for the November election by providing a safety net for those lacking one of the seven acceptable forms of photo identification approved by lawmakers.
She did that last month with an order allowing voters to cast a regular ballot with an alternate ID, such as a voter registration card, utility bill or a bank statement, and by signing an affidavit declaring a "reasonable impediment" to obtaining one of the state-mandated identifications.
Legal brouhaha
Ramos also required Texas to inform voters and election officials about the changes, an effort state officials pledged $2.5 million to execute. Attorney General Ken Paxton agreed to the terms, which significantly dilute what once was considered the strictest voter ID law in the country.
AUSTIN - A federal judge on Tuesday ordered Texas to amend its voter ID education materials, including news releases, polling location posters and websites, to correctly conform with her earlier mandate, a rebuke of the state's $2.5 million outreach effort.The Obama administration accused Texas earlier this month of using everything from a state website for voting to training documents for elections officials to narrow "dramatically the scope of voters protected" under a voter ID order signed last month by U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos.
The U.S Department of Justice asked Ramos to force Texas to change the wording of public education and poll worker information moving forward and to ensure television and radio ads "accurately reflect the text of the Remedial Order."
Ramos on Tuesday sided with the Justice Department, ordering Texas to reissue voter ID press releases, revise websites with voting information, edit a poster to be used at polling locations and make sure all education materials reflect the court's order moving forward.
Ramos also required Texas to share copies of documents and scripts for radio and television ads with the Justice Department and several minority groups. However, the judge stopped short of requiring Texas to amend training materials for poll workers and election officials that already have been published.
"If it's possible to be fixed, it has to fixed," said Chad Dunn, a lawyer representing U.S. Rep. Marc Veasey, D-Fort Worth, and the League of United Latin American Citizens in the case. "The more the public has an understanding there's procedures in place to make voting secure and easy the better."
A July ruling from the full 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found the state's voter ID law discriminates against minorities.
The appeals court ordered Ramos to soften the measure for the November election by providing a safety net for those lacking one of the seven acceptable forms of photo identification approved by lawmakers.
She did that last month with an order allowing voters to cast a regular ballot with an alternate ID, such as a voter registration card, utility bill or a bank statement, and by signing an affidavit declaring a "reasonable impediment" to obtaining one of the state-mandated identifications.
Legal brouhaha
Ramos also required Texas to inform voters and election officials about the changes, an effort state officials pledged $2.5 million to execute. Attorney General Ken Paxton agreed to the terms, which significantly dilute what once was considered the strictest voter ID law in the country.
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17 comments:
Can't let the Wets vote, they all vote Democrat.
The Dumbokratic Party is dependent on illegal immigration, free shit and entitlements to increase votes for their party. The goal of the party is to pay for votes through entitlements; and now voting is an entitlement too. Most Dumbokratic Party voters don't understand the Electoral College....they just know the Dumbokratic Party is intent on keeping the "free shit" flowing to buy votes.
REPUBLICAN (ha ha ha) Carlos Cascos is bending over nicely for wheelchair-bound Greg Abbott. Pathetic. Must be Hell to be Carlos Cascos, going around lying.
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Yea damn guy. I think anyone wanting to vote should vote without presenting any form of identication. Why prove who you are. EVERYONE should take my word for it. I DONT need no stinking ID.I hate it when republicans make these stupid rules. I bet they are also the ines that make us show pinche IDs if we want tk get on a plane. Vatos pendejos.
Let me see if I understand. The republicans want voters to provide a photo id in order to vote. Having this requirement discriminates against hispanics and african americans according to the democrats.The democrats have stated that 600,000 voters were unable to vote because they didn't have an approved photo ID. That would imply that these 600,000 voters are un able to board a plane,cash a check,buy a home or car, cannot drive,connect utilities, check into a hotel,buy a weapon and check out a library book. What a travesty.
Juan, what is F C P A?
Carlos Cascos he won the Democratic to acros Party but this time Carlos you will help us now is your turn you know Donald Trump is rich and scam the universities and rape his ex-wife and rape a 13 year old Girl AND HE rape some other ladies and the Cameron County Republican party they still want Donald Trump for president
what neds to happen is to have Mary Helen Flores get her CAVA (citizens against voter abuse)group going in Austin and straighten out that Short Cascos dude. Oh wait she was always on his side and swollowed all his bullshit about him being such a rightous and honest Republican. Now what to be done?
I am not a "wet", I am a female Hispanic. I REFUSE to vote for local Democrats but I've voted for Republicans before.
I agree with SOME of the ideas that Trump says but I WILL NOT vote for him because, like you, he "assumes" that all Hispanics are Democrats.
I do NOT consider myself a Democrat or a Republican, but I DO reseach how each candidate has voted and what is his background BEFORE I fill in the bubble giving my vote to just anybody.
By the way, Hillary Clinton is not my favorite either, but I do consider her the lesser of two evils.
I attempted to enroll in the "Electoral College" hoping to graduate with a degree in "Voter Suppression" and grow up to join the ReTHUGlican Party.
However, I flunked the drug test; apparently "mariwanna" is the incorrect spelling.
Enrollment denied!!!
FCPA <---------> DJT
PROUD CHICANO
To be done? How about you learning to write. Bet you dont have a photo id do you pendejo.
If there are 600k voters without a photo ID,theyve got bigger problems than not being able to vote.
Vote for Gary Johnson! Why vote for lesser of two evils when there is a good guy we can vote for!
Be sure to use proper punctuation when criticizing other people's writing skills.
Don't...identification,
You happy menso!
He/she probably was saying you should have said:
"To be done? How about you learning how to write? Bet you don't have a photo ID. Do you,
Pendejo?"
When you ask questions there is this thing called a question mark.
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