Court rules Texas violates Voting Rights Act by implementing voter ID policy
AUSTIN, Texas (MCT) — For the second time in three days, a federal court ruled that Texas violated the Voting Rights Act, this time by enacting a voter identification law that improperly limits the ability of minority citizens to cast a ballot.
The expense and difficulty in meeting the state’s voter ID law would weigh most heavily on the poor — and racial minorities are much more likely to live in poverty, the court ruled Thursday.
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