Ari Berman: Texas’ GOP War on Voting

Ari Berman: Texas’ GOP War on Voting

Ari Berman: Texas’ GOP War on Voting

A new voter identification law would allow Texans to vote with a handgun permit, but not with a student ID.

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This morning, Ari Berman joined Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! to discuss the Justice Department’s decision to block Texas from enforcing a new voter identification law. “What the Justice Department found,” said Berman, was that “600 to 800 thousand registered voters didn't have the required ID, and those were disproportionately Hispanic.”

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