State using its full power and plenty of cash against critics during its multi-year voter ID law defense

From The Brennan Center for Justice:

Yesterday, the Brennan Center, along with other plaintiffs challenging Texas’s strict photo ID law SB 14, filed a motion urging the Supreme Court not to hear an appeal of the case. Even though the full Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this summer that the law discriminates against African-American and Latino Texans in violation of the Voting Rights Act, Texas continues to defend it, at most recent count having spent over $3.5 million in litigation costs.

Also from that article:

Below is a non-exhaustive, representative sample of the kinds of complaints, questions, and concerns we, along with our allies, received from Texans throughout early voting and on Election Day. These reports, many of which were pulled from Election Protection’s OUR VOTE LIVE data system, which understate the full scope of the problem, came from voters in over 20 counties, which combined represent more than 60 percent of the state’s eligible voting population. Problems were reported in 8 of Texas’s 10 most populous counties.

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