Good news on Voter Suppression front

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If you want to check to see if your voter registration has been revoked by changes in your state law (there have been purges of legally registered voters), or if you have to bring new documents to the polls in order to be allowed to vote this fall, this website keeps current for each state www.gottavote.org

Good news on the voter suppression front:


Texas

Texas also overturned this week a Republican-drawn redistricting map that eliminated influence of minorities, map has to be redone.

Court Blocks Texas Voter ID Law, Citing Racial Impact

By CHARLIE SAVAGE and MANNY FERNANDEZ
Published: August 30, 2012

WASHINGTON — A federal court on Thursday struck down a Texas law that would have required voters to show government-issued photo identification before casting their ballots in November, ruling that the law would hurt turnout among minority voters and impose “strict, unforgiving burdens on the poor” by charging those voters who lack proper documentation fees to obtain election ID cards.

The three-judge panel in United States District Court for the District of Columbia called Texas’ voter-identification law the most stringent of its kind in the country. Gov. Rick Perry and the state’s attorney general, Greg Abbott, vowed to appeal the decision to the United States Supreme Court.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/31/us...pagewanted=all

Update in other ALEC-Republican-passed voter suppression law cases:

Last week, Wisconsin asked its State Supreme Court to overturn a pair of injunctions currently blocking its voter ID law from going into effect. The state would like to apply the law in the coming November elections, according to documents filed with the court. The Wisconsin law would likely render 200,000 to 300,000 people unable to vote, Hair said.

In South Carolina, the state is asking a court to override a Justice Department decision that prevented the state from implementing its voter ID law because the department determined it would have a disproportionate impact on minority voters. The Justice Department found that as many as 500,000 registered South Carolina voters do not have the ID that would have been required to vote under the law, said Hair.

Voting rights groups are also appealing a Pennsylvania state court's decision to uphold that state's voter ID law this month. The groups have offered evidence that perhaps as many as 1.4 million registered voters do not have the IDs required to vote; the state has put that figure closer to 700,000 voters. Pennsylvania is not subject to the section of the Voting Rights Act that requires federal approval for changes in voting laws.