Texas Election Maps to Be Debated After ID Law Rejected
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The Texas districts from which voters will elect congressional and state representatives will be argued today before a three-judge panel, one day after the state’s law requiring voters to have photo identification was rejected by a different court in Washington.
The panel of three federal judges in San Antonio said in an order yesterday that they preferred using the interim maps for the November election. They said that unless voting rights activists persuaded them to act before the election, they intended to address specific discriminatory boundaries when the redistricting battle resumes “after all appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court have been exhausted.’’