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Just how tough are new voter identification requirements in Texas? Apparently tough enough that former U.S. House speaker Jim Wright reportedly was denied a voter ID card on Saturday.

"Nobody was ugly to us, but they insisted that they wouldn't give me an ID," Wright, a Democrat who resigned from Congress in 1989, told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in a story about his experience at a Texas Department of Public Safety office.

The 90-year-old told the newspaper he realized last week that he didn't have a valid ID to vote in Tuesday's elections. He said he was refused a voter ID card because his driver's license expired in 2010 and his faculty identification from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, where he teaches, doesn't meet requirements under the state law enacted in 2011.

"I earnestly hope these unduly stringent requirements on voters won't dramatically reduce the number of people who vote," said Wright, who in the early part of his political career pushed to abolish the poll tax. "I think they will reduce the number to some extent."

Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis, a Democrat, recently had to sign an affidavit because the name she uses on her driver's license doesn't match the one on voter rolls. She was allowed to cast a regular ballot in early voting for the election. Attorney General Greg Abbott, Davis' likely GOP opponent for governor next year, will also have to sign an affidavit to vote because the name on his driver's license doesn't match the one he uses on his voter registration. http://www.usatoday.com/story/onpolitics/2013/11/03/jim-wright-voter-i
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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Non story.

Present the valid, updated items required,and you're fine.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

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Originally posted by Niki2:

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Just how tough are new voter identification requirements in Texas? Apparently tough enough that former U.S. House speaker Jim Wright reportedly was denied a voter ID card on Saturday.

"Nobody was ugly to us, but they insisted that they wouldn't give me an ID," Wright, a Democrat who resigned from Congress in 1989, told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in a story about his experience at a Texas Department of Public Safety office.

The 90-year-old told the newspaper he realized last week that he didn't have a valid ID to vote in Tuesday's elections. He said he was refused a voter ID card because his driver's license expired in 2010 and his faculty identification from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, where he teaches, doesn't meet requirements under the state law enacted in 2011.

"I earnestly hope these unduly stringent requirements on voters won't dramatically reduce the number of people who vote," said Wright, who in the early part of his political career pushed to abolish the poll tax. "I think they will reduce the number to some extent."

Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis, a Democrat, recently had to sign an affidavit because the name she uses on her driver's license doesn't match the one on voter rolls. She was allowed to cast a regular ballot in early voting for the election. Attorney General Greg Abbott, Davis' likely GOP opponent for governor next year, will also have to sign an affidavit to vote because the name on his driver's license doesn't match the one he uses on his voter registration. http://www.usatoday.com/story/onpolitics/2013/11/03/jim-wright-voter-i
dentification-texas-speaker/3422047/

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Originally posted by ElvisChrist:
What if you had to present the exact same documentation to buy a gun?

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Originally posted by ElvisChrist:
What if you had to present the exact same documentation to buy a gun?

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No, you have a Constitutional right to own or buy a gun.

The legislature has the right to set the qualifications for voting.

( Sarcasm mode off, but that is, in fact, the correct interpretation of the laws. )

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