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Although this newspaper strongly supports Indiana's voter identification law, we find ourselves in agreement with the League of Women Voters that the requirements contain a procedural flaw. That does not mean the requirement for voters to provide an official...
Tags: Indiana Court of Appeals, voter id, Indiana Legislature, Indiana State Bar Association, Indiana Supreme Court, photo identification, Mitch Daniels, id law, law requirement, Todd Rokita, Indianapolis
a timeline » April 27, 2005: Gov. Mitch Daniels signs Indiana's voter ID law. » April 28, 2005: The Indiana Civil Liberties Union and the Indiana Democratic Party file a federal lawsuit to overturn the law on behalf of five civic groups serving the homeless,...
Tags: Indiana Court of Appeals, voter id, id law, Indiana Democratic Party, Indiana Civil Liberties Union, issued photo, appeal court, court strikes, photo identification, identification law, Indianapolis
Texas (AP) — Texas House Democrats looked for more ways to derail a Republican-pushed voter identification bill Tuesday as a midnight deadline approached. Rep. Richard Raymond, a Laredo Democrat, took rare "personal privilege" time to passionately tell...
Tags: Texas House of Representatives, Texas Department of Insurance, voter id, id bills, midnight deadline, federal stimulus, stimulus money, Rick Perry
Republican Speaker Joe Straus broke away Monday from the Democrats who lifted him to power, calling them “obstructionists” and criticizing the partisan gridlock he says they have brought to the Texas House. Straus spoke out Monday as Democrats continued...
Tags: House Elections Committee, House Democratic, Texas House, Edmund Kuempel, voter id, Joe Straus
In the office of rookie Speaker Joe Straus, just beyond where a partisan standoff played out on the House floor, an endless procession of groups, large and small, Republicans and Democrats, invited and just appearing, wandered in to talk. As House members...
Tags: Texas House, Joe Straus, voter id, speaker joe
Shortly after the House convened Sunday afternoon, Democrats began their third consecutive day of stall tactics in an attempt to block partisan voter ID legislation. The Democrats, using a tactic known as chubbing, began asking questions from the chamber's...
Tags: Texas House, voter id
Texas – Those who want to extend the time some hospital patients may live before their life support is cut off are worried that their proposal is running into a wall at the Capitol. Legislation by state Rep. Bryan Hughes, R-Mineola, would require life-sustaining...
Deputy Commissioner and District Election Officer Manojkumar Meena said 3,051 security personnel have been deployed for poll duty in Chamarajanagar parliamentary constituency. In a release issued here on Thursday, Mr. Manojkumar Meena said of the 1,678...
Supporters and opponents of voter identification legislation in the House agreed on one thing Tuesday – that documented cases of voter impersonation in Texas are hard to find. That was where the consensus ended, though, as dozens of witnesses testified...
Tags: voter id, Texas House, photo id
Opponents say it could block the votes of thousands of poor and minority citizens. Neither claim is likely to be proved, judging by the experience of Indiana, which passed an even more stringent law in 2005. Indiana Democrats who have spent more than...