Have you already formed a conclusion, yerhonor?
John Hughes, the state's attorney, said Texans in rural areas are used to driving long distances. "People who want to vote already have an ID or can easily get it," he said.
It's 99 miles to the WallMart, yerhonor, it's not but another 10-12 miles to the Voter ID store.
Just load up an extra
Texas has a history of voter discrimination In his closing argument, Justice lawyer Matthew Colangelo said that the Texas law will disenfranchise more than a million African American and Hispanic voters and "is exactly the type of law" that Congress had in mind when it passed the Voting Rights Act.
If everyone is required to get an ID, and everyone is equally burdened, then no one is disenfranchised...
Republican lawmakers have argued that the voter ID law is needed to clean up voter rolls, which they say are filled with the names of illegal immigrants, ineligible felons and the deceased. Texas, they argue, is asking for no more identification than people need to board an airplane, get a library card or enter many government buildings.
On Thursday, Harvard University political science professor Stephen Ansolabehere, an elections and statistics expert, testified for the Justice Department that the Texas law was more likely to affect Hispanic and black voters than white ones. Texas lawyers countered that Ansolabehere's research methods were "hopelessly flawed," and said a list he produced of 1.5 million potential Texas voters without state-issued IDs was inaccurate.
The lawyers showed that Ansolabehere's list included Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R), former president George W. Bush and former senator Phil Gramm (R).
All well-known Republicans, yerhonor! Do we hafta count them, too?