Originally Posted By: getthesenets

The cases that Oli and Helen brought up, are clear examples of politically driven shenanigans meant to discourage people from voting though.

This is another one

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/01/us/cri...rules.html?_r=2


Now, these types of tricks and changes are normally par for the course in an election year, but given the history of the jim crow voting "restrictions" in the South, impossible to ignore the racial element of these modern day tricks.




Upon the heels of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that the Texas Voter ID law violated portions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, a federal judge has accepted a compromise between litigants and the State. The compromise eliminates the ID requirement, but requires voters to sign an affidavit and produce evidence of local residency.


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