U.S. Rep. Veasey files a lawsuit to stop Texas' Voter ID law
U.S. Rep. Marc Veasey joined seven others Wednesday in filing a federal lawsuit to keep Texas from enforcing its voter ID law.
Veasey, D-Fort Worth, filed the papers in Corpus Christi federal court, calling the requirement to show a state-issued photo ID card at the ballot box unconstitutional.
The law “would have the effect of denying thousands of Texas voters the ability to vote in person, a large number of whom would be disenfranchised entirely since absentee voting in Texas is available to only certain specified categories of voters,” the lawsuit says.
It was filed one day after the U.S. Supreme Court declared a section of the Voting Rights Act unconstitutional. That decision overthrew a decision by federal judges in Washington that Texas could not enforce the voter ID law.