Texas Voter ID Law Must Allow for Those Without Photo Cards
- Appeals court orders interim remedy for November election
- Attorney general says ‘unfortunate’ that law not fully upheld
Sun Valley residents vote at Our Lady of The Holy Church on election day at the predominantly Latino Sun Valley district of Los Angeles on November 6, 2012 in California.
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Texas was allowed by a fractured appeals court to require voters in November to show a driver’s license or another form of photo identification while a judge hammers out alternatives for citizens without an approved ID.
The decision leaves Texas, which had what critics called the harshest such law in the country, with a weaker statute headed into the presidential election and the prospect that a federal judge will order further changes to fix the law’s discriminatory effect on minority voters in the future.