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Federal Court Blocks Texas Voter I.D. Law on Grounds It Violates Voting Rights Act
A federal court has ruled that Texas’s voter I.D. law violates Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act and was “enacted for discriminatory purposes.” 
The Texas law, adopted in 2011, requires that voters show one of six forms of I.D. before being allowed to vote.
The court found that the law would “fall most heavily on the poor and that a disproportionately high percentage of African-Americans and Hispanics in Texas live in poverty.”
