Wendy Davis and Texas's War On Women Voters

[Nbadan]

watching Larry O'Donnell on TX voting....If a white, female, judge, trying to vote in her own courthouse, is practically disenfranchised by the TX ID law...WTF will face other women who are married, divorced, widowed?

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watching Larry O'Donnell on TX voting....If a white, female, judge, trying to vote in her own courthouse, is practically disenfranchised by the TX ID law...WTF will face other women who are married, divorced, widowed?

Texas Voter ID Law Discriminates Against Women, Students and Minorities

Based on Texas’ own data, 600,000 to 800,000 registered voters don’t have the government-issued ID needed to cast a ballot, with Hispanics 46 to 120 percent more likely than whites to lack an ID. But a much larger segment of the electorate, particularly women, will be impacted by the requirement that a voter’s ID be “substantially similar” to their name on the voter registration rolls. According to a 2006 study by the Brennan Center for Justice, a third of all women have citizenship do ents that do not match their current legal name.

http://www.thenation.com/blog/176792/texas-voter-id-law-discriminates-against-women-students-and-minorities#

The Roberts JINO SCOTUS gang of 5 Repugs strikes again. If SCOTUS can screw the 99%, they have and they will.

The TX law say "essentially similar" names on ID + voter registration card but the rule says must be "identical".

So a woman does a provisional vote and has 6 days to make them "identical", at her own expense. Of course, women as hourly employees will lose pay and risk being fired for taking time off to satisfy the TEXAS WOMEN DISENFRANCHISEMENT law. Then there's no guarantee that the local REPUG voting official will accept the provisional vote.

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same in NC

Justice Department challenges North Carolina voter ID law

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/0...#ixzz2icuiZP3B

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another nasty-assed Repug state

Pennsylvania Spends $1 Million On Ads Promoting Voter Suppression Law Blocked By Courts

“Wasting $1 million to promote a law that is not even in effect is like putting $1 million on my 2-4 Steelers to win this year’s Super Bowl,”

A Pennsylvania court suspended the bulk of the law in the lead up to the 2012 election — holding that the requirement that voters show ID in order to cast a ballot “must be enjoined to prevent disenfranchisement.” A subsequent ruling blocked the law again last August. By conservative estimates, voter ID laws prevent 2 to 3 percent of registered voters from casting a ballot, with the deepest effects being felt amount left-leaning cons uencies such as students, low-income voters and people of color.

Last year, Pennsylvania House Majority Leader Mike Turzai (R-PA) admitted that he supports voter ID because he believed that it would “allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania.”

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/10/24/2828661/pennsylvania-spends-1-million-ads-promoting-voter-suppression-law-blocked-courts/

the only group Repugs don't suppress is white (rural) males.

[Bill_Brasky]

why are republicans so afraid of people voting?

[George Gervin's Afro]

why are republicans so afraid of people voting?

they are worried that some day there might be massive voter fraud..

[Spurminator]

The best defense against the negligibly small number of proven instances of voter fraud is to have more people vote and reduce the impact of those few votes.

[Nbadan]

FreedomWorks blogger Shane Wright wrote a blog piece...

Top-level Democrats and OFA strategist are on the ground all across Texas registering hundreds of new voters every week. Currently Battleground Texas reports that they are on pace to register approximately 600,000 new Democrats by the 2014 midterms. Considering Rick Perry won the gubernatorial race in 2010 by less than 700,000 votes, Texas could be in real trouble. Mathematically speaking, the path to the White House could be lost for an entire generation if Democrats are able to turn Texas.

....

What I witnessed in Austin this weekend shook me to my core. This isn’t simply an ideological grassroots battle; we are up against a full-fledged frontal assault from the entire liberal political machine. Battleground Texas is well funded, motivated, highly organized and damn good at what they do. We are fighting an uphill battle to keep Texas reliably red, which has trickle down effects across the country.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/1...-Me-To-My-Core

Blame Rick Perry...he's the one who invited all those Yankees and their jobs...

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Federal Judge Declares Texas Anti-Abortion Law Uncons utional



http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/fe...cons utional

[Nbadan]

The new GOP idiot for Goven'a Greg Abbott will have to sign an affidavit to confirm that he is who he say in order to vote, and worse yet, the person he has to thank is...


Wendy Davis’ fix to voting law lets her cast ballot

But when the state senator got to her polling place, poll workers noted that the name on her driver’s license, Wendy Russell Davis, didn’t match that on her voter rolls, Wendy Davis. That meant that under the law, she was required to sign an affidavit swearing that she was who she said she was.


“It was a simple procedure,” Davis told reporters afterward. “I signed the affidavit and was able to vote with no problem.”

But it was thanks to Davis’ own efforts that she even had that option. In 2011, Davis introduced an amendment to the voter ID bill saying that if names are substantially similar but not identical, voters can sign an affidavit and still vote. The original bill as drafted by Republicans would have required voters in that situation to present a do ent showing a name change—something few people bring with them when they go to vote.

And it gets better—or worse. Greg Abbott, the frontrunner for the GOP nomination for governor, also will have to sign an affidavit, his campaign said, thanks to a similar names mismatch. Abbott, the state attorney general, has defended the voter ID law in court.

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/wendy-dav...s-voter-id-law

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Texas’ Attorney General Has A Devious Plan To Nuke What’s Left Of The Voting Rights Act

Broadly speaking, federal civil rights law permits two kinds of suits. “Disparate treatment” suits probe whether a defendant acted with racist intent. For this reason, these suits are notoriously difficult to win, especially in the voting rights context. Among other things, modern day lawmakers typically do not circulate memos to each other openly admitting that they support a law because it will prevent African Americans or Latinos from voting.

“Disparate impact” suits, by contrast, allow courts to infer discrimination from the fact that a law has an outsized negative impact on a minority group. Thus, in large part because Texas’ voter ID law is particularly likely to disenfranchise voters of color, it should be struck by federal courts under the Voting Rights Act.

In their motion, however, Texas does not simply claim that its voter ID law survives a disparate impact suit — it claims that these suits should cease to exist altogether in the voting rights context. As the motion incorrectly claims, the text of the Voting Rights Act “does not prohibit laws that merely have a disparate impact on racial or language minorities.”

This is not just false, it is egregiously false. The Voting Rights Act explicitly allows a plaintiff to prevail if “the political processes leading to nomination or election in the State or political subdivision are not equally open to participation by [racial minorities] in that its members have less opportunity than other members of the electorate to participate in the political process and to elect representatives of their choice.” Moreover, the law does not simply forbid acts that are intended to prevent minorities from voting, it also forbids any voting regime that “results in a denial or abridgement” of voters of color’s right to vote. Texas’ motion ignores the plain language of the law in an attempt to eliminate the most effective remaining way to prevent race discrimination in voting.

Texas is also fighting a battle that’s already been decided against them. In a 1980 case called Mobile v. Bolden the Supreme Court interpreted the Voting Rights Act in the narrow way Texas suggests in its motion. Two years later, President Ronald Reagan signed legislation that effectively overturned Bolden by explicitly authorizing disparate impact suits under the Voting Rights Act.

Now, however, Texas asks the courts to pretend like Reagan never signed this law.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/201...ng-rights-act/

you TX Repugs and tea baggers are some nasty, cheating bas s.

[boobie4three]

The le of this thread should be "Wendy Davis' War on the Unborn".

OP loves the "Abortion Queen".

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But when the state senator got to her polling place, poll workers noted that the name on her driver’s license, Wendy Russell Davis, didn’t match that on her voter rolls, Wendy Davis. That meant that under the law, she was required to sign an affidavit swearing that she was who she said she was.

This is crazy. Different forms of ID ask for different information. I dealt with my voter registration card a number of times because of how they ask for the information. When I got married, I followed the traditional route in which your maiden name becomes your middle name when you take your husband's last name. My legal name on my SS card ... became:

First Name Maiden Name Husband's Last Name.

Well, the voter ID registration required me to fill out my first name, my middle name, my maiden name, and my last name. So, of course more than once I got a card on which my name read:

First Name Maiden Name Maiden Name Last Name.

It took me years to get it fixed.

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This is crazy. It took me years to get it fixed.

That's what the Repugs are counting on, so they give you 6 days to fix it.

there's going to be tons of TX Repug lying about who and how many voters were forced to sign affidavits, vote provisionally, go on weeks, months long paper chase, sometimes in person.

[boobie4three]

Federal appeals court reinstates most Texas' abortion restrictions

Published October 31, 2013Associated Press

A federal appeals court has reinstated most of Texas' new abortion restrictions.

A panel of judges at the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling Thursday evening, three days after District Judge Lee Yeakel said one provision serves no medical purpose.

The panel says that the law requiring doctors to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital can take effect while a lawsuit moves forward.

The Texas attorney general's office argued that the law is a cons utional use of the Legislature's authority.

Lawyers for Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers had argued that the regulations did not protect women and would shut down a third of the abortion clinics in Texas.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013...-restrictions/

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on to the Supreme Court

Repugs win this battle on their non-stop War On Women.

[pgardn]

why are republicans so afraid of people voting?

Losing elections.

As the face of the US gradually changes color, they turn pale, very pale.

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Losing elections.

As the face of the US gradually changes color, they turn pale, very pale.

yep, polls have shown the biggest fear, energizer of Repug whites, esp ignorant rural whites, is that they are "losing the country" to non-white, non-Christian, non-hetero unAmerican Those People. Then add in the their simple-minds being suckered by the VRWC/1% Fix The Debt bull , etc, etc.

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and the Repugs whine that Obama is packing DC appeals court? The Repugs have been polluting, packing the Federal judiciary with right wing extremists at every turn.

these War on Women Repug judges are dubya appointments (non filibustered by Dems).

[FromWayDowntown]

I, for one, am glad to see a government come to its senses and realize that anyone other than white males really can't be trusted to vote.

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summary of red-state voter suppresion:

Everything That’s Happened Since Supreme Court Ruled on Voting Rights Act

What have preclearance states done since the Supreme Court ruling?

... pre-clearance states NC, TX, FL, VA, SC, AL, AZ, MS, SD

... non-pre-clearance states AR, IA, IN, MT,NE,ND,TN

http://www.propublica.org/article/vo...ailynewsletter

the Repug-stacked-with-JINO SCOTUS s America OVER AND OVER AND OVER

[CosmicCowboy]

I, for one, am glad to see a government come to its senses and realize that anyone other than white males really can't be trusted to vote.

Well, the country really HAS gone to since the 19th amendment passed.

[Trainwreck2100]

I, for one, am glad to see a government come to its senses and realize that anyone other than white males really can't be trusted to vote.

the country was working along just fine with just men of every color voting

[m>s]

to liberals: How do you prevent voter fraud?
to conservatives: How do you prevent voter discrimination?

The real trick will be to see who tries to honestly answer the question, and who tries to change the question.

drivers licenses or id's should be free, and so should access to your birth certificate and other do ents in order to get the license. elections only come around every so many years, so dont give me that crap about not everyone can drive or afford a car, that gives PLENTY of time to find a way to bum a ride, take a bus, walk, ride a bike, etc to get to the DMV. anyway i've never to this day met someone who didn't have a drivers license or ID. you need one to open a bank account, drive, buy a car, etc this idea that this is discriminatory is a played out lie, but it just make it free to appease everyone.

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Repugs knows they LOSE more in higher voter turnouts, so low voter turnouts from lower voter registration is their strategy.

Will New Voter Registrar Rules Decrease Turnout?

A new law imposing citizenship restrictions on deputy and volunteer voter registrars has voting rights groups worried that fewer Texans — in particular, fewer minorities — will cast a ballot next year.

House Bill 2194, by state Rep. Larry Taylor, R-Friendswood, amended the Texas Election Code to ensure that a registrar meet the requirements of a registered voter.Before the change, a registrar simply had to be deputized. That's still the case, but now he or she must also be a U.S. citizen.

The bill, which passed out of the Texas House 134 to 7 and out of the Texas Senate 31 to 0, also makes it a class A misdemeanor to compensate registrars based on how many people they registered, or to present a registrar with a quota to reach as a condition of payment or employment.

in 2008, about 26,000 voters were registered in Texas through drives that “have now been made extremely difficult or impossible under new laws.”

Murphy's bill lays out new training requirements for deputy registrars, which may include a test at the end of their training. The intent is to make certain that a deputy registrar "can perform all the duties required and to increase efficiency in county clerks' offices by reducing some of the time and paperwork involved in processing voter registration applications," according to the bill analysis. But the Brennan Center says the laws, taken together, will reduce the registration rate, partly because state governments do not make an aggressive effort to register voters. They “instead rely on individual voters to ensure that they are registered,”

“The laws are another step in making it harder to register and harder to vote overall in the state of Texas,”

“And it’s coming at a time when registration rates are lower than they have been in the past.”

Rowland argues the new citizenship requirement will disproportionately affect blacks and Hispanics, who are more likely than whites to register through registration drives. In 2004, about 13 percent of new black and Hispanic voters were registered through drives, versus about 8 percent of non-Hispanic whites, according to U.S. Census data cited in the report. In 2008, 5.4 percent of new white voters were registered through private drives compared with 11 percent of new black voters and 9.6 percent of new Hispanic voters.

http://www.texastribune.org/2011/10/...nority-voters/

Repug politics, esp in TX ed up by Repugs, and democracy are blatantly inimical.