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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.

Press Room

March 13, 2012

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.”

Erin Schikowski

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