A Federal Court in Texas ruled in favor of the U.S. Justice Department's lawsuit against Texas's voter ID law.
U.S. District Court Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos ruled the Texas Voter ID law unconstitutional and in violation of the Federal Voting Rights Act. Veasey v Perry, Southern Dist., 13-cv-193.
Judge Ramos called it an “unconstitutional poll tax” intended to discriminate against Hispanic and African-American citizens that creates “an unconstitutional burden on the right to vote.”
Ryan P. Haygood, an attorney with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, said in a statement that the Texas law was "a problem in search of a solution," pointing to the lack of evidence that in-person voter fraud is a significant problem.
“The evidence in this case demonstrated that the law, like its poll tax ancestor, imposes real costs, and unjustified, disparate burdens on the voting rights of more than 600,000 registered Texas voters, a substantial percentage of whom are voters of color," Haygood said. "That result is precisely what the Voting Rights Act was enacted to outlaw."
CLICK HERE to read the 143 page opinion with a 4-page appendix.
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