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Greg Palast Voting Rights Group: Over 1 In 10 Texas Voters Lack ID Required To Vote by Ian Millhiser | ThinkProgress According to the Advancement Project, a leading voting rights organization litigating several challenges to state-level voter suppression laws, over 1 in 10 registered voters lack the ID necessary to vote under a voter ID law that went into effect after the Supreme Court gutted a key prong of the Voting Rights Act. And that’s just one fact offered by a graphic outlining many of the impacts of voter suppression laws in four states. In North Carolina, 1 in 3 voters lacking ID are African American, and 70 percent of black voters used early voting in 2012. North Carolina recently enacted a voter suppression law that imposes a strict voter ID requirement and cuts early voting by a full week. Read the full story here: thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/10/28/2843221/voting-rights-group-1-10-texas-voters-lack-required-vote/
Posted on: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 02:15:19 +0000

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