# How does TX requiring State ID violate VRA?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [August 31, 2013, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-tx-requiring-state-id-violate-vra/667657 "2013-08-31T14:07:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2013, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-tx-requiring-state-id-violate-vra/667657/114 "2013-09-04T14:59:21Z")

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> [@CannyDan](#):
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> AHEM! I believe it was I who characterized the law as reprehensible. Note that I did not so characterize _you_.

Correction noted. My mistake: that comment was your contribution to diplomacy and politeness.

**Bridget Burke** ’s was from another GD thread.

> [@How do voter ID laws suppress minority votes?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-voter-id-laws-suppress-minority-votes/665968/190):
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> Even those hotheads talking about all men being equal didn’t say a thing about the _women._ Here’s Bricker’s dream–the results of the 2012 election if[only White Men](http://blogs.mprnews.org/newscut/2012/11/if_only_white_men_could_vote/) had the vote. (He’ll be in his bunk.)

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> As for your desire to provide “consequences” to somehow enhance the value of our opinions – well, in my valueless opinion, if we turn out to be wrong and you right, the consequence will be that the world, and our country, and the State of Texas will all be crappy-er places.

The problem is that I don’t agree, and the courts don’t agree, and the legislature doesn’t agree, and the strong majority of your fellow voters don’t agree. So what you’re asking for is, it seems to me, the power to change the law based on what you want, and to hell with the courts, the legislature, and the strong majority of your fellow voters. Is that accurate?

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