The
Supreme Court said Saturday that Texas can use its controversial new
voter identification law for the November election. Justices Ruth Bader
Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan dissented. Ginsburg wrote:
"The greatest threat to public confidence in elections in this case is the prospect of enforcing a purposefully discriminatory law, one that likely imposes an unconstitutional poll tax and risks denying the right to vote to hundreds of thousands of eligible voters."
Critics say that as many as 600,000 Texas voters could be disenfranchised because they lack proper ID, a list that includes concealed handgun licenses but not college student IDs.
"The greatest threat to public confidence in elections in this case is the prospect of enforcing a purposefully discriminatory law, one that likely imposes an unconstitutional poll tax and risks denying the right to vote to hundreds of thousands of eligible voters."
Critics say that as many as 600,000 Texas voters could be disenfranchised because they lack proper ID, a list that includes concealed handgun licenses but not college student IDs.
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