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Take that Texas! The state’s got a history of voter discrimination and this new legislation would have violated the Voting Rights Act.

The judges said the new law would require tens of thousands of registered Texas voters who are poor and do not drive cars to travel to a state motor vehicle office to obtain the required state photo ID card. And one-third of Texas counties do not have a Department of Public Safety (DPS) office, they noted.

“Even the most committed citizen, we think, would agree that a 200- to 250-mile round trip — especially for would-be voters having no driver’s license — constitutes a substantial burden on the right to vote,” said Judge David Tatel in unanimous opinion.

He noted that about 13% of the state’s black voters, and 7% of its Latinos, do not have an automobile in the household. And the state drivers’ license offices are not open on weekends.

“Poorer citizens, especially those working for hourly wages, will likely be less able to take time off work to travel to a DPS office,” Tatel said. “A law that forces poorer citizens to choose between their wages and their franchise unquestionably denies or abridges the right to vote.”

Guess it’s no surprise but not everyone’s too happy about it. Texas Attorney General Gregg Abbott (undercover KKK at it’s finest) is taking the ruling to the US Supreme Court and said:

“we are confident that we will prevail.”

We’ll have to wait and see if this clown actually ends up appealing; we hope there’s not enough time for him to get this reversed.

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