Supreme Court Upholds Texas Voter ID Law
The Supreme Court on Saturday allowed Texas to enforce its strict voter identification law in the November election.
The law, enacted in 2011, requires voters seeking to cast their ballots at the polls to present photo identification like a Texas driver’s or gun license, a military ID or a passport.
Critics say the law is the most exacting in the nation and would disenfranchise 600,000 registered voters, a disproportionate number of them black and Hispanic.
Texas officials disputed both points. They told the justices that Texas might not be the nation’s strictest law because the state accepts some forms of identification that others do not and the state makes allowances for disabled people and for older Americans.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/us/supreme-court-upholds-texas-voter-id-law.html?emc=edit_na_20141018
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