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Discriminatory Texas Voter ID Law Will Be Changed

HeadlineAug 04, 2016

Civil rights groups, the Justice Department and the state of Texas have reached an agreement over the state’s voter ID laws. A federal court ruling last month ordered the law be changed, after finding it discriminated against African-American and Latino voters. Texas residents will now be allowed to cast ballots in November’s election even if they have none of the seven identifying documents that the law had required. This comes less than a week after courts nullified a similar voter ID law in North Carolina and ordered Wisconsin to expand its list of valid ID cards and do away with other voting restrictions.

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