Supreme Court Allows Texas to Use Strict Voter ID Law in Coming Election Madana Kloss 4th period


Voter ID law is a law enacted in 2011 which requires voters who wish to cast their ballots to present some sort of photo identification. Texas finally ruled on Saturday that their strict voter ID law was to be implemented for the upcoming November elections, even though it will restrict around 600,000 registered voters from voting, many of which are African American or Hispanic. Is it not ironic, as we are studying the settlement and annexation of Texas, that Texas belonged to Mexico (the Hispanics) before the US? Not only that, but the Americans who expanded into the West brought many of their African American slaves with them. That being said, how far has America come? The African Americans and Hispanics in Texas undoubtedly faced discrimination in many areas during the settlement and annexation of Texas; has this discrimination changed, or merely evolved? Should the voter ID laws be kept in place, even though it prevents 600,000 registered voters from voting? Why or why not?

How much of a difference does voter fraud make? The photo ID laws sounds like it’s supposed to stop this but at the expense of making it really hard for some people to vote and that’s not fair. To be quite honest, it doesn’t seem like America has changed much when the government allows laws like this to happen that seem discriminatory. I wouldn’t be surprised if the real reason behind the law was to prevent certain people from voting to give a certain political party more of an edge.




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