Next week could see the passage of the Texas voter id bill, if Sen. Gallegos’s health issues persist.
In linking yesterday to this Houston Chronicle column by Kristen Mack, I neglected to highlight perhaps the most important sentence in the piece: “Among Republicans it is an ‘article of religious faith that voter fraud is causing us to lose elections,’ [Royal] Masset[, former political director of the Republican Party of Texas,] said. He doesn’t agree with that, but does believe that requiring photo IDs could cause enough of a dropoff in legitimate Democratic voting to add 3 percent to the Republican vote.”
The LA Times has this must-read report on a lunch that now-fired New Mexico U.S. attorney David Iglesias had with Patrick Rogers, who was a strong critic of Iglesias’s handling of voter fraud allegations.
Jonathan Adler posted a link to my Slate piece on the demise of the American Center for Voting Rights, prompting some interesting reader reactions. Brad Friedman’s reactions are here.