Now, realize when a decision is made by the US Supreme Court it is suppose to examine all the laws that impact the case.
I don't recall any Supreme Court finding about the Texas Constitution in deciding this case.
Voter fraud has been identified as a crime of the individual. There is also the definition of Election Fraud.
Electoral fraud or vote rigging is illegal interference with the process of an election. Acts of fraud affect vote counts to bring about an election result, whether by increasing the vote share of the favored candidate, depressing the vote share of the rival candidates, or both.
It appears to me that Voter Fraud is a political issues and is substituted with Electoral Fraud or Vote Rigging.
The only way manipulation of the vote can occur is if it happens systemically. That reflects the new Voter ID laws which states IDs normally found within a Democratic Voter includes such things as student ID and the personal cost of obtaining a birth certificate.
Texas states he has produced all the birth certificates so anyone can obtain a state ID or driver license. There is a fatal flaw in that since some current residents of Texas were born in other states. Texas cannot simply state it has supplied all the birth certificates necessary. If Texas holds that as proof to a voter having no excuse for not obtaining a state ID, then that is further discrimination that only allows people born in Texas to vote.
...But then on October 8th a federal judge struck down Texas’s law on its own merits, ruling that insofar as some 600,000 registered voters in the state lacked the relevant forms of ID—about 4.5% of the state's registered voters—the requirement was tantamount to a “poll tax.”
That was registered voters. The Texas Law impacted REGISTERED VOTERS. Not new voters. Not newly minted voters, but, registered voters.
On October 18th, though, (click here) with the early voting period set to begin about 48 hours later, the Supreme Court allowed the law to remain in place for the general election. Debate over the law promises to continue. But this year, for the first time, Texans will finally be able to assess its impact in practice....
I have not yet heard any detailed assessment of the Texas law from this episode of it's impact. There is this:
...Though the state has seen a steep rise in registered voters in recent years, the total number of early votes cast had ticked down, from 1,731,589 in 2010, to 1,715,731 this year.
Texas is known for its low turnout rate. Gerrymandered districts ensure few of the legislative races are competitive, and polls suggest that Republicans will once again win all the major races this year by whopping margins....
If Republicans are successful in Texas because of Gerrymandering. Two questions:
l. Why worry about voter fraud before the fact when there is assured outcomes to the vote anyway? Why create the speculation and suspicion? There was no chance, with gerrymandering the elections were going to change anyway.
2. Why is gerrymandering not considered Electorate Fraud? It is a systemic method to insure the outcome of an election?
I don't recall any Supreme Court finding about the Texas Constitution in deciding this case.
Voter fraud has been identified as a crime of the individual. There is also the definition of Election Fraud.
Electoral fraud or vote rigging is illegal interference with the process of an election. Acts of fraud affect vote counts to bring about an election result, whether by increasing the vote share of the favored candidate, depressing the vote share of the rival candidates, or both.
It appears to me that Voter Fraud is a political issues and is substituted with Electoral Fraud or Vote Rigging.
The only way manipulation of the vote can occur is if it happens systemically. That reflects the new Voter ID laws which states IDs normally found within a Democratic Voter includes such things as student ID and the personal cost of obtaining a birth certificate.
Texas states he has produced all the birth certificates so anyone can obtain a state ID or driver license. There is a fatal flaw in that since some current residents of Texas were born in other states. Texas cannot simply state it has supplied all the birth certificates necessary. If Texas holds that as proof to a voter having no excuse for not obtaining a state ID, then that is further discrimination that only allows people born in Texas to vote.
...But then on October 8th a federal judge struck down Texas’s law on its own merits, ruling that insofar as some 600,000 registered voters in the state lacked the relevant forms of ID—about 4.5% of the state's registered voters—the requirement was tantamount to a “poll tax.”
That was registered voters. The Texas Law impacted REGISTERED VOTERS. Not new voters. Not newly minted voters, but, registered voters.
On October 18th, though, (click here) with the early voting period set to begin about 48 hours later, the Supreme Court allowed the law to remain in place for the general election. Debate over the law promises to continue. But this year, for the first time, Texans will finally be able to assess its impact in practice....
I have not yet heard any detailed assessment of the Texas law from this episode of it's impact. There is this:
...Though the state has seen a steep rise in registered voters in recent years, the total number of early votes cast had ticked down, from 1,731,589 in 2010, to 1,715,731 this year.
Texas is known for its low turnout rate. Gerrymandered districts ensure few of the legislative races are competitive, and polls suggest that Republicans will once again win all the major races this year by whopping margins....
If Republicans are successful in Texas because of Gerrymandering. Two questions:
l. Why worry about voter fraud before the fact when there is assured outcomes to the vote anyway? Why create the speculation and suspicion? There was no chance, with gerrymandering the elections were going to change anyway.
2. Why is gerrymandering not considered Electorate Fraud? It is a systemic method to insure the outcome of an election?
