Last month a federal appeals court declared that Texas’s controversial Voter ID law was biased against minority and poor voters. Now, as Bloomberg reports,the Lone Star State has reached a compromise that will allow these voters to have their voices heard.
Texas will allow citizens to vote in the November presidential election if they can provide certain written forms of residency. These include voter registration cards, certified birth certificates, utility bills, government checks, pay stubs or bank statements with their names and addresses on them.
These allowed forms are far broader than the narrow definition of ID that was previously stipulated by the law.
Recent Federal rulings overturning Voter ID laws are seen as a major win for the Obama administration and voting-rights activists.
