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Well, at least Texas is being held to the court ruling. Good for this judge.
Texas leaders apparently figured they could get away with ignoring federal court rulings about their voting procedures. Ignoring as in violating. For a couple of months now, they’ve been publicizing false claims about the state’s voter ID requirements for the November election. On Tuesday Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos slapped them down hard. She’s indicated anger in previous rulings on voting procedures, but as Ian Millhiser at Think Progress notes, this time “she’s pissed.” Consequently, she dished out some specific instructions about what officials must do immediately.
But early this month, in a legal filing, the DOJ said the state was violating that order by spending limited amounts of money in a misleading education process. Namely, voters were being told the strict rules still applied. And that could mean many people with legally okay ID wouldn’t even bother to try to vote. In fact, they can if they can show that there was a “reasonable impediment” for why they don’t have the proper ID. They wouldn’t know that from reading the “educational” material election officials were disseminating.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/09/20/1572360/-Texas-officials-keep-ignoring-the-courts-on-voter-ID-and-a-federal-judge-is-really-hacked-off-now?detail=emailLL&link_id=2&can_id=7ac7f29811a186c5ae63a6abf479abdc&source=email-court-rules-that-black-men-may-have-legitimate-reason-to-run-from-police&email_referrer=court-rules-that-black-men-may-have-legitimate-reason-to-run-from-police&email_subject=court-rules-that-black-men-may-have-legitimate-reason-to-run-from-police
Texas leaders apparently figured they could get away with ignoring federal court rulings about their voting procedures. Ignoring as in violating. For a couple of months now, they’ve been publicizing false claims about the state’s voter ID requirements for the November election. On Tuesday Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos slapped them down hard. She’s indicated anger in previous rulings on voting procedures, but as Ian Millhiser at Think Progress notes, this time “she’s pissed.” Consequently, she dished out some specific instructions about what officials must do immediately.
But early this month, in a legal filing, the DOJ said the state was violating that order by spending limited amounts of money in a misleading education process. Namely, voters were being told the strict rules still applied. And that could mean many people with legally okay ID wouldn’t even bother to try to vote. In fact, they can if they can show that there was a “reasonable impediment” for why they don’t have the proper ID. They wouldn’t know that from reading the “educational” material election officials were disseminating.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/09/20/1572360/-Texas-officials-keep-ignoring-the-courts-on-voter-ID-and-a-federal-judge-is-really-hacked-off-now?detail=emailLL&link_id=2&can_id=7ac7f29811a186c5ae63a6abf479abdc&source=email-court-rules-that-black-men-may-have-legitimate-reason-to-run-from-police&email_referrer=court-rules-that-black-men-may-have-legitimate-reason-to-run-from-police&email_subject=court-rules-that-black-men-may-have-legitimate-reason-to-run-from-police