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Texas Demolishes USDOJ’s Case Against Voter I.D.
The jig is up. In court, the DOJ could not produce one compelling piece of evidence that anyone would be disenfranchised by proving who they are before they vote.
Testimony has concluded in the trial of Texas ‘Voter I.D.’ law, after attorneys for the state demolished the main arguments raised against the law by the Obama Administration, and got the key witness for the Justice Department to admit he got his information from Wikipedia, 1200 WOAI news reports.
The Justice Department presented what it said was evidence that as many as 1.5 million Texans don’t have the government issued photo i.d. required to vote, but Attorney General Greg Abbott says of the people on that roll, 50,000 are dead, 330,000 are over the age of 65 and can vote by mail, where a photo i.d. is not required, and more than 800,000 are on the list improperly.
Among the people who the DOJ listed as ‘lacking the required documentation needed to vote’ are Former President George W. Bush, San Antonio State Senator Leticia Van de Putte, and Licia Ellis, who’s husband, Houston state Senator Rodney Ellis, on Wednesday blasted the voter i.d. law as ‘just like the racist murder of James Byrd’ who was dragged to death in east Texas in 1998.
In fact, University of Texas students conducted a telephone survey of random people on the DOJ’s list of people who allegedly don’t have the documents required to vote, and found that more than 90% of them, including 93% of African Americans and 92% of Hispanics on the list, actually have a photo i.d.
Which brings us to Victoria Rodriguez. The San Antonio teenager was the only individual in a flurry of ‘experts’ the Department of Justice called to the stand to represent the 1.5 million allegedly set to be disenfranchised under the Texas law. Rodriguez testified that she not only lacks a photo i.d., but lacks the documentation need to obtain one, and State Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer said requiring her to pay to obtain those documents would amount to an illegal ‘poll tax.’ Under cross examination, Rodriguez admitted that she has a birth certificate, a voter registration card, and a Social Security Card, and only two of those three forms of i.d. are required to obtain a free voter i.d. card offered by the DPS. Rodriguez testified that she ‘doesn’t have time’ to go the DPS office to obtain the voter i.d. card, but she testified she had plenty of time to fly more than 1500 miles to Baltimore, catch a train to Washington DC, and sit for hours in a federal courtroom to testify about how unfair the Texas voter i.d. law is.
Nevyan
July 13th, 2012
She was able to fly to Baltimore without producing a photo ID to board the plane?
Really? REALLY?
sileceal
July 13th, 2012
When it comes to anything “Texas” (despite concrete evidence from the state) if a progtard judge heads this waste of taxpayer dollars the USDOJ will win (and note that other states have voter ID laws that sit fine and dandy with the scum at the top.) It’s Texas and THAT speaks disparaging volumes. Texas: SECEDE!
Noodengr
July 13th, 2012
Nevyan great observation. I am so sick of hearing anyone complain about having to have a pic ID to vote. This is 2012 to function in this society you need one.
Libs: No excuses stop whining and admit that the only reason you are making it an issue is to make voter fraud easier.
Unneutral
July 13th, 2012
Damn, I love Texas. If Arizona gets too wobbly I’ll be moving to the Lone Star State.
michellesbigbeaver
July 13th, 2012
EVERYTHING in this administration is based on utter and complete lies. I have lost track of the innumberable lies that Obama and his lefties have told just in the last 3 years. I wish they at least told half truths (which is just a fancy way of saying lying) but I can’t even give them credit for that! When we boot these parasitic race-baiting lying commies out of power we should absolutely gather them up and hold them accountable for their lawless lying actions.
IOpian
July 13th, 2012
This is a good example of why the Left obfuscates when their beliefs are challenged. The only course they have is to either baffle with bullshit or make personal attacks because the evidence for their positions is, at best, as shallow as a headline, catch phrase or bumper-sticker. Note how the first comment rejects the gist of the article because of grammatical errors. That is not logical but a way of dismissing uncomfortable truths that its programming cannot compute.
norman einstein
July 13th, 2012
@IOpian, excellent points!
They always rely on the old “baffle them with bullshit” technique, because in many cases it WORKS.
However, the DOJ’s effort in this instance was just pathetic.
And the testimony of their “expert witnesses”… just embarrassing!
“Wikipedia”…seriously? That puts them on a par with Soledad Obrien, and that’s never good.
Their “star witness”, Victoria Rodriguez, testified that she doesn’t have TIME to go the DPS to obtain a voter ID card.
Well then, sorry, babe…if you can’t juggle your busy schedule better than that, then obviously exercising your right to vote isn’t a priority with you and you forfeit your right.
Stranded in Sonoma
July 13th, 2012
One person. One person! That is what the demmorhoids do when they want legislation passed to “level the playing field.” One sob story and then they produce phony stats claiming this person is representative of X millions that suffer some indignity. Hey, DOJ! Take your manure back to DC where it will be unrecognizable from Obama’s stench.
And @Nevyan — great find! I missed that completely on the first read through.
persecutor
July 13th, 2012
Come the revolution, I plan on fighting with Texas. Screw Nueva York!
fxdwg
July 13th, 2012
Miss Rodriguez “doesn’t have time”? Am I missing something?
persecutor
July 13th, 2012
I just read her profile in “Welfare Weekly”. Interesting woman, indeed!
Tim
July 13th, 2012
See, “Rodriguez testified that she ‘doesn’t have time’” cause she’s hispanic and they don’t get 168 hours a week like the white folks. Theyz be dicriminated aginst and only get 145 hours a week. Da poor ole Negroes only gitz 125 hours a week but the damned heathen Chinese and Indians each get 212 hours a week.
See, it’s straight up RACISM!!!!!
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July 13th, 2012
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D
July 13th, 2012
Mr Abbot you are a true Attny General. Wish we had one like you in FL. You stopped the freedom from religion nuts and now this. GOD Bless
Genl Ripper
July 14th, 2012
If Texas secedes from the USA then I will move there immediately.
It would be like moving TO the America that our Founding Fathers intended for us – limited Gummint, no income taxes, freedom to be left alone.
But we’ll have to stop back by Austin and “suggest” to all those flaming libtard shitweasels that they head somewheres else…..like California, Minnesota, Maryland or Massacussetts
jasond
July 16th, 2012
Just because all the evidence favors Texas in the case doesn’t mean those D.C. judges can’t rule in favor of the DOJ. As a matter of fact I wouldn’t be surprised if they did just to help Barry cheat in Texas in November, not to mention the P.R. victory they could trumpet to other members of the hive.