Texas Voter ID in Trouble . . . and the United Nations
November 17, 2011 - 1:35 pm - by J. Christian Adams

Texas passed a law hoping to have photo voter ID ready for the 2012 elections. The Justice Department may well stop that from happening, and DOJ has laid down a mighty hurdle to it ever becoming law.

Because Texas is a covered state under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, either the Justice Department or a federal court must approve election law changes. I and others here at PJ Media have been advocating that Texas go to court to obtain approval and bypass DOJ. Why? Because stopping Voter ID has become the number one issue of groups like the SEIU and NAACP ahead of next year’s election, and they have a direct pipeline into the DOJ Civil Rights Division.

States which go to court get results, quickly. States which go to DOJ get played with. Officials who submit to DOJ presuming that voter ID will be precleared don’t have their eyes fixed on the horizon at the gathering left wing storm against Voter ID. Stopping voter ID is the top priority of the civil rights left and vote fraud deniers.

Texas made an enormous mistake submitting voter ID to DOJ, and now Texas may pay the price. DOJ has made a “more information request.â€