Texas voter ID trial opens in U.S. court

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Texas voter ID trial opens in U.S. court

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/texas-voter-id-law-heads-trial-u-court-145443415.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/cRFk5fw3UC.gJlBUmzQDwA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://l.yimg.com/os/publish-images/news/2014-09-02/7467c510-32b3-11e4-a08e-5585eaec8d7a_voter-id.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="a lawsuit against the Voter ID bill" align="left" title="a lawsuit against the Voter ID bill" border="0" /></a>District Court in Corpus Christi stems from a battle over stringent voter ID measures signed into law by Texas Governor Rick Perry, a Republican, in 2011. The law requires voters to present a photo ID such as a concealed handgun license or driver's license, but it excludes student IDs as invalid. &quot;Although Texas has yet to identify a single instance of in-person voter fraud, the state nevertheless insists that a racially discriminatory photo ID law is necessary to prevent it,&quot; said Natasha Korgaonkar, assistant counsel with the civil rights group NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.</p><br clear="all"/>

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