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Texas Law Requiring Photo ID Blocked by DoJ.

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As the New York Times is reporting:

The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division on Monday blocked Texas from enforcing a new law requiring voters to present photo identification, contending that the rule would disproportionately suppress turnout among eligible Hispanic voters...

...the state had failed to meet its requirement, under the Voting Rights Act, to show that the measure would not disproportionately disenfranchise registered minority voters...

4.3 percent of non-Hispanic voters lacked such identification, while 6.3 percent of Hispanic voters did -- meaning that Hispanics were 46.5 percent more likely to be affected by the rules change.

And that's the conservative estimate.  Using another set of data presented to the Department of Justice by the State of Texas:
4.9 percent of non-Hispanic voters lacked the identification, as compared with 10.8 percent of Hispanic voters -- meaning that Hispanics were more than twice as likely to be affected.

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