Ari Berman: Facts Don’t Support Texas Voter ID Law

Ari Berman: Facts Don’t Support Texas Voter ID Law

Ari Berman: Facts Don’t Support Texas Voter ID Law

Texas's response to 80 percent of its population increase’s coming from new African-American and Hispanic constituents? Dilute their voting power.

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Attorney General Eric Holder called Texas's voter ID law a “poll tax” today, in reference to the estimated 1.4 million voters, the majority of whom are black and Hispanic, who would be disenfranchised by the measure. With the Justice Department now battling the state in court over the law’s discriminatory implications, Nation writer Ari Berman spoke with Alex Wagner about why Texas won’t win this one.

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