Docket 2:13-cv-00193 — Doc 725-27 — Veasey v. Abbott

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U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas · No. 2:13-cv-00193 · Doc. 725-27 · 2014-11-17 · Docket on CourtListener

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23.
Other
states
where
Courts
have
approved
Voter
ID
statutes
do
not
have
a
history
of
discrimination
in
registration.
Nor
the
literally
hundreds
of
findings
of
election
discrimination
on
the
basis
of
42
U.S.C.
Sec.
1983
and
Section
2
of
the
Voting
Rights
Act.
24.
The
process
involved
in
the
Georgia
preclearance
of
a
similar
bill
is
also
troubling.
There
has
been
documentation
of
the
fact
that
the
professional
staff
recommended
a
Voting
Rights
Section
5
Objection
to
the
Georgia
Photo
ID
statute.
This
recommendation
was
simply
ignored
by
the
Attorney
General.
25.
Recall
that
there
was
also
a
recommendation
by
the
professional
staff
that
there
be
a
Section
5
objection
to
the
2003
Texas
Congressional
redistricting
the
DeLaymander
that
was
overridden
by
the
political
wing
of
the
Justice
Department.
As
you
know
the
Federal
Supreme
Court
invalidated
the
DeLaymander
just
last
year
under
Section
2
of
the
Voting
Rights
Act.
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26.
Next
consider
the
differential
in
support
when
the
issue
was
before
us
in
2007.
All
of
the
minority
elected
officials
in
the
Texas
House
with
the
exception
of
one
voted
against
the
Photo
ID
bill.
And
the
only
exception
was
a
first
term
Republican
member
of
the
House
who
was
elected
from
a
non-minority
district.
He
was
thereafter
defeated
by
an
Anglo
Republican.
27.
And
we
all
recall
the
saga
of
Senator
Gallegos
returning
on
a
gurney
from
his
hospitalization
related
to
his
transplant.
All
of
the
minority
members
of
the
Texas
Senate
voted
in
concert
to
keep
the
bill
passed
by
the
House
off
the
Senate
floor
and
effectively
killed
it.
This
year
the
Texas
Senate
voted
to
exclude
the
Photo
ID
bills
and
those
relating
to
redistricting
from
the
redistricting.
Recall
what
happened
when
the
Senate
tried
the
same
trick
in
the
2003
Congressional
redistricting.
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28.
But
there
are
also
serious
practical
problems
with
the
procedure
of
presenting
additional
documentation
to
vote
while
voting
is
going
on.
29.
For
example
one
of
the
biggest
complaints
in
voting
on
election
day
is
waiting
in
line
to
vote.
Adding
additional
time
to
check
photo
id
alternative
documents
or
allow
someone
to
provisionally
vote
takes
time.
30.
Picture
IDs
are
sometimes
not
a
good
likeliness.
The
alternative
documents
might
also
be
problematic.
Is
the
Joe
Garza
on
the
utility
statement
the
same
as
the
Jose
Luis
Garza
on
the
voter
registration.
Or
is
the
Henry
Gonzalez
the
same
person
as
Enrique
Gonzales.
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31.
Time
is
the
biggest
discouragement.
Think
about
the
hourly
worker
who
works
an
entire
day-
frequently
700
to
500
in
Houston
or
Dallas.
He
or
she
would
then
have
to
drive
home
this
is
another
hour
or
more.
Polls
close
at
700.
Any
sort
of
a
line
would
discourage
staying
and
voting.
This
is
particularly
true
where
there
are
active
poll
watchers
who
raise
questions
requiring
the
election
judges
the
make
additional
decisions.
32.
Recall
the
problems
that
can
result
from
our
unreliable
electronic
voting.
33.
The
alternative
documents
could
also
be
problematic.
For
example
if
a
mother
and
father
have
moved
in
with
one
of
their
children
or
visa
versa.
There
would
be
no
utility
statements
et.c
available.
Since
the
advent
of
direct
deposit
there
are
fewer
letters
sent
to
pensioners.
34.
Anyone
who
has
ever
dealt
with
the
elderly
knows
how
difficult
it
is
for
them
to
find
bills
envelopes
statements
and
the
like.
35.
Another
thing
that
the
Department
of
Justice
looks
at
in
considering
a
Section
5
objection
is
what
the
minority
community
thinks
about
the
bill.
What
prominent
Hispanic
or
African
American
leader
is
pushing
this
Photo
ID
Bill
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Some
have
referred
to
the
Photo
ID
bill
as
a
solution
looking
for
a
problem.
Others
have
said
the
prime
rule
of
the
Texas
Legislature
has
always
been
if
it
aint
broke
dont
fix
it.
With
all
of
the
potential
downsides
and
no
documented
instances
of
coordinated
multiple
voting
since
1948
voting
such
a
radical
change
is
difficult
to
justify.
In
fact
if
the
1948
Lyndon
Johnson
and
Coke
Stevenson
election
happened
today
any
such
fraud
would
be
smoked
out
in
an
election
contest
with
little
difficulty.
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Further
restrictions
on
voting
should
be
made
of
sterner
stuff.
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I
urge
that
the
Committee
not
vote
the
bill
out.
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Growth
in
the
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Population
is
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also
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from
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the
1990
and
2000
Census
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Period
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of
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Growth
2000-2010
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the
Decade
2000-2010
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of
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Texas
Growth
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be
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Minority
Population
of
Texas
is
Projected
to
Grow
by
Almost
4000000
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Population
is
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to
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by
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Dallas
County
Population
Growth
2000-20
10
During
the
Decade
2000-2010
ac
All
of
the
Dallas
County
Growth
Comes
from
Minority
Groups
The
Minority
Population
of
Dallas
County
is
Projected
to
Grow
by
Almost
400000
85%
Hispanic
While
the
Anglo
Population
is
Expected
to
Decline
by
Almost
250000
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Harris
County
Population
Growth
2000-2010
During
the
Decade
2000-2010
All
of
the
Harris
County
Growth
Comes
from
Minority
mob
y
Groups
ura
The
Minority
Population
of
Harris
County
is
N
Projected
to
Grow
by
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Almost
850000
80%
of
Which
are
Hispanic
While
the
Anglo
Population
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is
Expected
to
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by
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Dallas
Metroplex
Population
Growth
2000-2010
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sý
During
the
Decade
2000-2010
80%
of
the
Growth
in
the
Dallas
ss
Metroplex
Will
Come
from
Minority
Groups
The
Minority
Population
of
Dallas
Metroplex
Will
Grow
by
More
that
1100000
88%
of
Which
are
Hispanic
While
the
Anglo
Population
is
Expected
to
increase
by
269213
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Hispanic
269213
Angl
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Houston
Metropolitan
Area
Population
Growth
2000-2010
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the
Decade
2000-2010
ra
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All
of
the
Houston
Metro
Growth
Will
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from
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Minority
Groups
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The
Minority
Population
of
Houston
Metropolitan
Area
Will
Grow
by
More
that
1100000
almost
90%
of
Which
will
Hispanic
While
the
Anglo
W
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is
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to
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by
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the
Decade
2000-2010
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90%
of
the
Texas
rou
Growth
Will
be
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of
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to
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by
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4000000
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the
Anglo
Population
is
Expected
to
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increase
by
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JA_004249
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We
anticipate
that
Texas
will
have
grown
by
somewhere
between
4000000
and
5000000
persons
when
the
2010
Census
is
taken.
The
estimates
and
projections
in
this
study
are
based
on
a
growth
of
approximately
4000000
persons.
Draft
10
X
The
Texas
Constitution
specifies
that
there
be
31
Senate
and
00 0
0
150
House
Districts.
Congressional
Districts
increase
as
the
population
of
Texas
grows
faster
than
the
United
States
population.
In
2000
Texas
picked
up
an
additional
2
seats
and
it
is
anticipated
that
in
2010
Texas
will
gain
3
or
4
seats.
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Under
2000
Census
Under
2010
Census
House
District
150
139012
167371
Senate
District
31
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Dist.
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JA_004251
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Some Thoughts On
The Proposed Texas
Photo-ID
Bill.
George Korbel
220 Gardenview
San Antonio
Texas
78213
210 216-3333
1.
The
first Consideration
should be measure the magnitude of the
problem.
Do we have a rash of persons who vote multiple times-
or
of non-citizens
voting
for that
matter.
Everyone
agrees that
there
are
no documented
cases where
either of these has been done on any
large
scale in recent
years.
Many
people refer to the Box 13 in Duval
County during
the Coke
Stevenson
vs Lyndon
Johnson election
in
1948.
That
was
61 years ago.
2.
It is a serious
violation
of law to vote multiple times.
While there
have been a limited
number
of charges
of multiple voting
nothing
on
any large
scale.
The
limited
interest by District Attorneys
indicates
that
there
is no ground swell of support fromthe law enforcement
community.
Indeed
a recent
investigation
by the Bexar County DA.
On these two
grounds
alone
the Photo
ID bill ought
to be rejected.
1
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3.
Nor would one expect
that would be a large problem
here.
Multiple
voting
is not a very efficient
way to commit fraud in
an election.
For example if you had 50 people who were
willing to vote
multiple
times and they were
able
to get to
5
different voting
precincts in one election day you would have
250 votes.
On last election day
I actually
tried to
see how
many polling places
I could get
to and vote
at.
I would put
the
max in the range of 10.
4.
Only very small
city and school
board elections would be
affected
by this level of fraud.
Obviously
in a small
city or
school
district
everyone knows everyone and this would be
impossible.
I grew up in one of those
sorts of jurisdictions.
Besides any criminal
attorney will tell you that a
conspiracy-which
is what
this would be-- works only if there a limited
number of conspirators.
50 is not
a limited number.
The Next Question
is Who
is Burdened
by a Photo ID
requirement-Who
is Likely Not to Have
a Drivers
License
5.
Everyone
agrees
that
the elderly who have stopped driving
as
well
as the poor who do not have
a vehicle.
The elderly poor
would be most hit.
6.
Poverty
and lower income
rate
is significantly higher among
Hispanics
and African American and they are less likely to have
a vehicle
and
a Drivers
License.
Studies
indicate
a strong
correlation
between
Race/ethnicity
and car ownership
Income and car ownership
Education
and Car Ownership
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00003349
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For Example
For all whites
in our sample
76 percent
own
cars
compared
with
47
percent
of blacks and 52
percent
of Latinos.
Moreover
within
educational
attainment
categories
whites have higher and
statistically
distinguishable
car ownership rates than
do blacks
and Latinos.
For
example
51
percent
of whites
with
less than
12
years of education
own
cars
compared
with
28 percent
of blacks
and 44 percent
of
Latinos
with
comparable
educations.
Similarly
among individuals
with
16
plus years of schooling
87 percent
of whites
71
percent
of
blacks and 64 percent
of Latinos
own cars.
Can Boosting
Minority
Car-Ownership
Rates Narrow
Inter-Racial
Employment
Gaps
Steven Raphael
Goldman
School
of Public
Policy
University
of
California
Berkeley
raphael@socrates.berkeley.edu
Michael
Stoll
School
of
Public
Policy
and
Social
Research
University
of
California
Los Angeles
mstoll@ucla.edu
June 2000
at 12
Consider These Studies
CorrelatingIncome Education
and Race/Ethnicity
in the Context
of the 2000 Census
TX
00003350
3
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8.
This racial/ethnic
differentialin income
increases
with age.
For example Hispanics and
African Americans tend to rely almost entirely
on Social Security for retirement income.
9.
Next consider
these facts on poverty
and income
in the
context of
how does one obtain a Photo
ID of one does not drive.
10. The
location
of places where the identification
card is available
has
been mapped
out for 4 counties.
The number of locations
is limited
and in most cases not within the traditional
minority
area.
Given the
differential
in income
identified
in the charts
the burden
of travel
would
fall most heavily on the minority
persons.
11. In urban
areas
it is not unusual
to take more than an hour of waiting
to
get a license
or renewal.
12.
I am familiar with the urban
bus systems in Texas.
If you add travel
and transfer time
I feel confident
that
obtaining a photo
ID would
take the better
part
of an entire day.
TX
00003353
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place
in inner-city
Dallas to obtain a
Identity
Card. This is clearly
the second
largest concentration of minority population
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the second
largest town
in the county is about
15
miles from the Pearsal
Driver License Office.
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13. Obviously
the locations make
it more difficult
for minority
Texans
to participate
in the political
process
14. There are some documents
that can be used in
lieu of presenting
a photo id.
These
include
a
letter or a bill in the voters name
and addressed
to him/her
from a Federal
or a state
agency.
These
sorts of notices
have been substantially
reduced with the advent of direct deposit.
Many
times several
families or parts of families will live
in the same house
or in smaller houses on the
same lot. The bills would likely be addressed to
only one of the persons living there.
Few
minority poor have pilot
licenses or concealed
handgun permits.
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14. One of the arguments
that has been advanced
is that the Department
of Justice
will certainly approve preclear
this photo
id bill because the Courts have
approved
such a bill in a few other states and there was
no Section
5 Voting
Rights
Objection
to a similar law recently
passed in Georgia.
15. To begin with Texas had
a poll tax which
was
invalidated
by the Courts.
The
state
then
passed
an annual
registration bill that was
stricken
as unconstitutional
with
the observation
by the Court that
it was
more restrictive than
the poll tax.
The
legislature then
passed a series of biannual
registration bills that were also
stricken by the Federal Courts
as too restrictive.
Texas then
passed
a
permanent
voter registration bill. However a few years later the state
passed
a
purge
and re-registration requirement
that was
invalidated
by a Voting
Rights
Objection.
16.
Another differentialwith Georgia is the sheer
size of Texas.
The
minority
population
of just Harris
County
is as large
as the minority
population
of
Georgia.
And most of that population
is crowded
into the area
within
Loop 610
where
there is not
a single
place
to obtain
a Texas Identification
card.
17.
I suspect
that if there were no convenient
places
for the minority
population
in
Georgia to get the identification cards there would
have been no preclearance.
Compare
M inority Population
of Barris
County
With
That of the
5o States
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18.
Other
states where Courts have approved
Voter ID statutes
do not
have a history
of discrimination in registration.
Nor
the literally
hundreds
of findings
of election
discrimination on the basis
of 42
U.S.C.
Sec.
1983 and Section
2 of the Voting
Rights
Act.
19. The process involved
in the Georgia
preclearance
of a similar bill is
also troubling.
There
has been documentation
of the
fact
that
the
professional staff recommended
a Voting
Rights
Section 5 Objection
to the Georgia
Photo
ID statute.
This recommendation was
simply
ignored by the Attorney
General.
20.
Recall
that
there
was
also a recommendation by the professional staff
that
there
be a Section
5 objection to the 2003 Texas Congressional
redistricting
the DeLaymander
that was
overridden
by the political
wing of the Justice
Department.
As you know
the Federal
Supreme
Court
invalidated
the DeLaymander
just last year under
Section 2 of
the Voting
Rights Act.
21. Next consider
the differential
in support
when
the issue was
considered
in 2007.
All of the minority elected
officials
in
the Texas
House with the exception of one voted against
the
Photo ID bill.
22. And we all recall
the saga of Senator Gallegos returning
on a
gurney from his hospitalization
related
to his transplant.
All
of the minority members of the Texas
Senate voted in concert
to keep
the bill passed by the House off the
Senate floor and
effectively killed it.
This year
the Texas
Senate voted
to
exclude the Photo ID bills and those
relating to redistricting
from the redistricting.
Recall
what
happened
when
the Senate
tried the same trick in the 2003 Congressionalredistricting.
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Photo ID Bill on Final House Passage
Yes an final Passage
No on Final Pas
s-ge
Only one minority house member- who
is not elected from a minority
dominated
district-
voted in favor
of final
passage
23. But there are also serious practical
problems with the
procedure of presenting
additional
documentation
to
vote
while voting
is going on.
24.
For example one of the biggest
complaints in voting
on
election day
is waiting
in line
to vote.
Adding additional
time
to check photo id alternative
documents
or allow someone to
provisionally
vote
takes
time.
25.
Picture
IDs are sometimes not a good likeliness.
The
alternative
documents
might also be problematic.
Is the Joe
Garza on the utility statement
the same as the Jose
Luis Garza
on the voter
registration.
Or is the Henry Gonzalez the same
person as Enrique Gonzales.
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26.
Time waiting
in line is the biggest
discouragement.
Think
about
the hourly
worker who works
an entire day- frequently
700 to 500 in Houston
or
Dallas.
Polls close at 700. Any sort of a line would
discourage
staying
and
voting.
This
is particularly true where
there are active poll watchers
who
raise questions
requiring the election
judges
the make
additional
decisions.
27.
The
alternative
documents
could
also be problematic.
For example
if a
mother and father have moved
in with
one of their children
or visa versa.
There would
be no utility
statements
etc available.
Since
the advent
of direct
deposit
there are fewer letters sent to pensioners.
28.
Anyone who
has ever
dealt with
the elderly knows how
difficult
it is for them
to find bills envelopes
statements
and the like.
29.
Another thing
that the Department
of Justice
looks
at in considering
a Section
5 objection
is what
the minority community
thinks
about
the bill.
What
prominent Hispanic
or African
American
leader is pushing this Photo
ID
Bill
Earlier in this session
the Texas
Senate
singled out bills concerning
Redistricting
and Voter ID so that
in those two
instances
a simple
majority of the Senate
could
vote
to get bills on the floor.
In doing do
the Senate
put Voter ID into
a classification
along with redistricting.
Recall of course
that
the Texas
Senate
has seldom if ever voted
to adopt
a
reapportionment
plan
that was not invalidated by the Justice Department
or the
State
or Federal
Courts. Recall
again
that
it was just a few
years
that
the Senate
suspended
that
self same
rule
to adopt
the outrageous
bacon
strip Congressional
districts so severely
criticized
the the US
Supreme Court and found to discriminate
against
Hispanic
voters.
In fact if you read the
legislative
history of the application of the Voting
Rights
Act
Cover Texas in 1975
1981
and and again in 2005 you will
see
that
racial
and ethnic
discrimination
by the Texas
Legislature in the
redistricting
process
is the prime reason that
Texas has been covered by
the Federal Voting Rights
Act
preclearance
process
for the past 34 years.
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Some have referred
to the Photo ID bill
as a solution
looking
for a problem.
Others
have said the prime rule of the Texas Legislature
has always been if it
aint broke dont fix it.
With
all of the potential downsides
and no documented
instances of
coordinated
multiple voting
since 1948 voting
such a radical change is difficult
to justify.
In fact
if the 1948 Lyndon Johnson and Coke Stevenson
election
happened today
any such fraud
would
be smoked
out in an
election
contest
with little difficulty.
Further
restrictions on voting
should
be made of sterner
stuff.
I urge that the Committee not vote the bill out.
This
is not a Democrat
Republican
thing.
It has
a differentialimpact
on
the poor and minority of our
state.
Over
the years I have opposed
both
parties when they have violated
the rights of my clients.
Just last month
the Fifth Circuit remanded
a case
in which LULAC is complaining that
the Texas Democratic
party
discriminates
in the delegate
selection
process.
If you are able to pass this bill I suggest
that you have
a record on why
this does not make
it more
difficult
for minority persons
to participate
in
the political processes.
You will need to answer why
you changed
the rules.
If the only answer
is that you wanted
to reduce
the impact of the Hispanic
and African
American
Senators you will not preclear
the photo
ID
statute.
Yet in
all sincerity
what
other explanation
is there for your actions
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Is there something
that
can be done
to minimize the impact on
minority voters
1.
I would suggest
that
you examine the number of places
where
Texas
Identification
cards
are available
and insure that the
number
is increased
and more equitable
assigned.
In this
regard
I suggest
that
there be a Drivers
License substation for
every 50000
persons.
2.
I would suggest
that you go to
election
day registration with
preparation
of identity cards on the spot
at the polling place if a
voter does not have
one.
3.
I would expand
the types of documents
that are accepted
as a
reasonable
alternative
for a photo
ID.
While none of these would completely solve
the problem
that
will
be created by Photo ID at least
it would indicate
a recognition
of the problem
and a commitment to deal with
it.
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i.
AMERICAN
CIVIL
LIBERTIES
UNION
ofTEXAS
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
ACLU of Texas Opposes Voter Roadblock
Bill SB362
Paul
H. Asofsky
Provisional ballots are a broken
remedy for voters
in Texas
PRESIDENT
Kevin
McHargue
Good morning/afternoon
Chairman Duncan
Senators.
My name
is Terri
VICE
PRESIDENT
Burke and Im the
Executive
Director
for ACLU-TX.
LEGAL
Randall
Ellis
Today my commentswill cover
the
topic
of provisional
ballot voting
with
VICE
PRESIDENT
respect to SB362.
Provisional
ballots are one
of the ACLUs legislative
PROGRAM
priorities
this session.
Michael
R.
Wyatt
VICE
PRESIDENT
The
Help America Vote Act
of 2002 HAVA mandated
new voter
DEVELOPMENT
identification requirements for registration. Since
the implementation
of HAVA
Richard
Alvarado
in all states voters
must be given
the opportunity
to cast a provisional
ballot.
NATIONAL
BOARD
Provisional
ballots were envisioned
as fail-safe
voting
protection
for the voter
REPRESENTATIVE
to remedy faulty voter
lists. No eligible
voter erroneously purged from the
Nancy
Friedman
voter
rolls should
lose
their
right
to
vote.
All
eligible
citizens
who are entitled
SECRETARY
to vote should
have
the
right
to vote and have their vote
counted.
Fran
Compton
TREASURER
The determination
of whether provisional
ballots count
in the
state
of Texas is
James Aldrete
left up
to
local election
boards
that review
the
ballots along
with information
from the
local election
officials
who
verify that the
individual
is a legitimate
David Chang
voter
under
state
law.
Jim Cornehls
What weve
discovered
researching provisional
ballots in Texas
is that we
Madan
Goyal
have extremely high rates
of provisional
ballot rejections.
The average
rate
of
Marilyn Gullett
rejection
nation-wide
is around
20%. 2
Texas has
one of the highest
rejection
rates
in the
nation.
In the 2004
presidential
election Texas counties
Mary Scott Hagle
rejected
78.6% of the provisional
ballots cast. 36193 Texans
cast provisional
Gilberto
Hinojosa
ballots in 2004 and only 7770 of them were counted. 1
Rev.
Charles Kiker
In 2006 the
rejection
rates for provisional
ballots statewide decreased slightly
Betsy
Moon
to 70.1 %. 5571 voters cast
provisional
ballots and only 1668 counted. 2
Everard
Santamarina
This past presidential
election
in 2008 42010 Texas voters cast provisional
Kurt Schwarz
ballots.
Only 9444 of them ultimately counted.
Thats
a staggering
rejection
Mohammad Tariq
M.D.
rate of 77.6% six years after the
Help America Vote Act passed. 3
Mark Yzaguirre
High numbers of provisional
ballot
rejections
may suggest
serious errors in
Terri Burke
our elections
procedures.
Possible errors could
occur
in voter
roll purges
EXECUTIVE
DIRECTOR
where voters
are not made aware they were removed
from the rolls or
Rebecca
Bernhardt
improper instructions
given
to voters
on provisional
ballots or inadequately
DIRECTOR
OF POLICY
trained
poll workers.
DEVELOPMENT
Ann
Trump Daniel
DIRECTOR
OF
DEVELOPMENT
AMERICAN
CIVIL
LIBERTIES
UNION OF TEXAS
Trace
Ha
es
P.O.
BOX 12905
AUSTIN
TX
78711-2905
T/512.478.7300
F/512.478.7303
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WWW.ACLUTX.0RG
TX
00003363
FIELD
ORGANIZER
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Deterrents
to in-person-voter-fraud
are
already
in place
and are working
in Texas. Over five
million dollars of HAVA federal funds were recently spent
to
create
a statewide voter database
in Texas The Texas Election
Administration
Management TEAM
database
is a
comprehensive
voter list-matching
process
one of the most restrictive
in the
country.
Utilizing
exact-match
policies there
is more risk of an
eligible voter being
rejected
due to
clerical
error
than there
is of a fraudulent
one even
being
allowed
to register to vote.
SB362
will no doubt
increase
the number
of provisional
ballots
that are
cast
at the
polls
if
passed
and also increase
the number
of votes that are rejected due
to new
identification
requirements.
We are extremely concerned
that this
bill will cause
more Texas voters
their
legitimate
right to
vote
32566 Texas voters
were rejected
in 2008.
That
is a verifiable
number
of Texas voters
who
have
been denied
their right to have
their vote
count.
That
is a threat
to
our representative
democracy.
Texas ranked
45th
in registered
voter turnout
for the 2008 presidential
election4
We can
not continue
placing
undue burdens
on eligible
voters
and keep
a healthy
democracy.
We ask that the
Senate
consider protecting
the
integrity
of elections
in Texas by protecting
all
eligible
voters
in Texas. A small change
to our election
code
to
allow
provisional
ballots
cast
outside
a voters home precinct
to count
if the
still live in the same county would be one step for
example.
That
is the second
most common
reason
provisional
ballots are
not counted
in our
state. 3
Thank
you.
------------------------------------------------------------------Sources
1Texas
Secretary of State
Provisional
Ballots Voted/Counted
November
2004
http//www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/historicaI/prov2OO4.shtm1
2 http//www.usatoday.com/news/provisional-ballots.pdf
The 2006 Election
Administration
and
Voting
Survey
- A Summary of Key Findings
Election Assistance
Commission December
2007
Page 19
3 ACLU Public
Information
Act Request Texas Secretary of State
Nov 2008 First most common
reason
is a voter
not being
on
the
rolls - this may be due to
purging
qualified
voters
through
the TEAM system
Bills that provide
fixes
to the wrong precinct
right county problem - HB 790.
4 http//elections.qmu.edu/Turnout
2008G.html
2008 General
Election Turnout
Rates
George Mason
University
Analysis
Jan
2009
General
Information
Provisional
Ballots
Where to Watch
in 2008
a briefing
paper DEMOS
October 2008
http//www.
demos.
org/pubs/provision
a I ba
I lot_b rief. pdf
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1
Statement of Joseph
G. Martin
III
Texas Committee of the
Full Senate
Regarding
SB 362 Concerning
Voter
Identification
Requirements
March 9 2009
I thank
the esteemed
members of this committee
in allowing me to make this statement.
My name
is Joseph
Martin
Ill.
I am a resident of McKinney
Texas.
I hold a Bachelor of Arts summa cum
laude from Texas
State University-San
Marcos
in Psychology
with
a minor in Philosophy.
I am currently
employed
in the field of real estate
am a Notary
Public
of the State of Texas
and worked
as an election
clerk
in the
2008
General
Election.
I have
also worked
in halfway
houses
and known many individuals
without
picture
identification
and without
the
resources to obtain
the
records
such
as birth certificate
needed
to obtain
accepted
identification.
I think these
facts
give
me some insight
into
any law that
attempts
to put
additional
requirements
upon the right to vote
in the State of Texas
particularly
SB 362.
As a Notary
Public
I am familiar with the difficulties that can arise when
examining
identification
cards or
other documents
to determine authenticity
and there are entire
guides
and books on the
subject.
Yet
even then
notaries are
not immune to
being deceived and that
is why even to
this day the
highest
standard
of identification
is to have someone
known
to you or someone known to a credible
witness.
But this bill expects
election
clerks
after
a modicum of tax-payer supported
training to
be placed
in a
role of declaring peoples
identification
authentic
or
not.
In my experience
as an election
clerk
I have
seen
the time consuming
process and confusion
that can
arise just processing
voters
under the current
Texas
Election
Code.
If this
bill becomes
law
the
responsibility
of the
clerks
becomes
more daunting
more
time
consuming
and
ultimately more
frustrating
to
the
voter.
The
more
frustrating
and
demanding
we
make
exercising
the
right of every
eligible citizen
to
cast
their ballot the
more
of the
disadvantaged
the
marginalized
and
the
cynical
will we discourage
from the
polls.
And
this
is not
merely
conjecture
numerous
bipartisan
studies
from the
Brennan
Center
for
Justice
to the
Federal
Election
Assistance Commission have confirmed
that this law WILL turn away
legitimate voters.
And
this would
be done even though there
is any evidence
that this bill would deter voter fraud in any
meaningful
way and
in fact
opens
the door to
possible
future
systematic
abuse.
Numerous
studies
both
in our own
state
and others
have found that voter impersonation
is the
rarest form of fraud and
the
largest
cause
of
fraudulent
ballots
are
fraudulent
absentee
ballots
or
irregularities
in
the
registration
process.
From 2001-2006
the
Justice
Department only prosecuted
86 cases of voter fraud
nationwide.
Worse
than
merely
being a waste of taxpayer
funds that will produce no results this bill introduces
the
ability of election
officials to introduce
another
possible
form of fraud though not new willfully turning
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Iý
2
away or relegating
to the
status
of provisional
balloting
a voter with
legitimate
identification
as having
questionable
identification
in order to satisfy an ideological social or political agenda.
Finally
all of the money and effort that goes into this bill will likely prove
for nothing.
I would anticipate
numerous
court challenges to the
legislation
and doubt this bill would survive a Constitutional
challenge
in the United
States Supreme
Court. The
bill has attempted to remove
the claim of a de facto poll tax by
removing the Department of Public
Safetys
charge
for an id card in Section
12 d.
Yet the author
of the
bill failed
to check
the
identity
requirements
for a Texas
ID card which might
require an individual
to
purchase
their birth
certificate
from the Texas
Department of Healths
Bureau of Vital Statistics
or the
state
they were
born
in.
In Texas
the
cost for a certified
copy of a birth certificate
is $22.
It is still the
poll tax just once removed
from a direct
tax. Regardless of the cost the
additional
effort the
bill enacts
upon
individuals
to exercise
a right protected
by law.
As
a secondary
matter
has anyone
considered
the
financial
implications to Texas
if in order to make
this law Constitutional
all identification
cards and birth certificates
had to be issued free
of charge
The
National
Governors
Conference
has
estimated
an
$11
billion
cost
nationwide
to
provide
free
identification
to all citizens.
Can Texas
The Department of Public
Safety
and The Department of Health
afford
both the
loss of revenue and cost
Rather
than
offer
these
token
measures
that will do
nothing
to deter the
real sources of voting fraud
more
should
be done to enforce
current election
law and investigate
and prosecute
those who attempt
to manipulate
and defraud
the Democratic
process.
This
bill is not the answer.
Please join me in denying
support
to this legislation.
Joseph
G Martin
III
McKinney
Texas
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SB 362 Public Testimony
I moved to Houston
in 1996 and although
I registered
to
vote
as soon
as I moved
here it was 6 years
before
I received
my voters registration ID card.
Poll workers
failed
to inform me that I could vote provisionally
but fortunately
I knew my rights and insisted
that they allowed me to do so.
Regardless to how many times
I contacted
the voters
registration office and filled out
yet another
application
the office told me that they could
not identify
the source of my problem of not
receiving
an ID card.
I feel for those who
faced
a similar situation as mine but gave up because they were
frustrated with a broken
system.
In 2005 America saw the Bush administration
empower
Iraqi citizens
voting
in
America in that of Iraqs
first democratic
election.
Much
effort was exerted
to make
this
happen but according
to
the Bush administration
it was conducted
successfully
and with
no complaints of fraud.
Juxtapose that
to the electoral
process
for displaced
Louisiana
residents
after
Hurricane
Katrina.
FEMA refused
to allow its records
of the new
locations
of evacuees
be used
to send voters
notices
of upcoming elections.
Displaced
hurricane
victims
were
not allowed
to participate
in a satellite
voting
system similar to
that by which Iraqi
citizens would use some 4 years
later.
That problem
exemplifies
the same flawed principle that this proposed bill 362
possesses in its very nature
- we shouldnt be working
harder
to help non-citizens
vote in
a foreign
election harder than we work to empower our own citizens in the voting
process.
We should be encouraging
voter participation
not
discouraging
it.
With respect
to a higher dependency
on voter ID cards
to validate voters
the
proponents
of this bill suggest
that
it is the quintessential
solution
to ending voter
fraud.
But the bill in and of itself provides
no greater protection
than already
exists in Texas
laws.
According
to the Texas
Secretary
of States
office
registered voters
can already
use
a drivers
license
birth certificate US passport official
mail from a government
entity or
even
a copy of a current utility bill bank
statement
or paycheck.
According
to the bills
author these forms of ID would still be acceptable
if the bill is passed
so
I asked why this
bill is needed.
But this bill also disenfranchises
many groups of people in varying circumstances.
For example if a registered voters house
is destroyed by fire they will instantly
lose all proof of their identify due to loss of drivers
license
social security
card
birth certificate
etc.
During
the months that it will take
to
obtain
duplicate
copies
of these documents many voters
will be disenfranchised.
The city of Houston
averages an astounding 30 house
fires per day
The evacuees
of Hurricane
Katrina
faced
additional
challenges
in addition
to
those posed by FEMA in that
the court house
records
of Orleans Parish
were
all
completely under water.
Im sure the Houston/Galveston
area residents faced
similar challenges
with regards
to
loss of identification
after
Hurricane
Ike.
In conclusion
I urge this Senate body to act responsibly by putting partisan
politics
aside
and protect
the voters rights.
Protect
the
rights
of the elderly woman who never drove
a
car so never needed
a drivers
license.
Protect
the 18% of Americans
age 65 and older
who do not
have photo IDs.
Please vote no to SB 362.
Thank
you.
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VOTER
I.D.
LEGISLATION
HOW WILL IT AFFECT THE WORKING
POOR AND HOMELESS
By Doug
Diana Bell
March
10 2009
In
1999 we founded
an outreach
ministry for the working
poor and homeless
people
who
live
in downtown
Austin.
It is called
Trinity Center.
Here is what we have
learned
about the photo
ID issues faced
by this community.
Working poor and homeless
people want to vote.
Many of them are very
interested
in
local state and federal elections.
Participating
in our political
process empowers them
to feel like they are part
of our society.
Many of them are proud veterans
who have
served
their country
in the past.
They have
opinions
and they want
to voice
those
opinions
in the voting booth
just like everyone
else.
They have
the right to vote.
If
bureaucratic
road
blocks
keep them from the polls they feel unfairly excluded from
society.
Many working
poor and homeless
individuals
do not have
a photo
ID.
Often
they do not
have a drivers license because
they cant
afford
a car.
Identification
theft
is a chronic
problem in this community. Many of them carry all of their worldly possessions in plastic
bags or back
packs.
When they fall asleep
in a public
place
their bags are stolen
along
with their identifications
papers.
This
is a devastating
loss
to someone
with no back up
information stored
in a safe
place.
Three
specific
cases come to mind regarding
stolen IDs.
One of our friends
that we met
at Trinity Center is Terry.
Terry came to Austin on a bus from Dallas.
He had a new job
lined up
in the computer
industry.
When he got off the bus he was attacked.
He was
severely injured and
his bags were stolen.
His injuries put him in the hospital.
He lost
his job opportunity
because
he couldnt
report
for work.
Once he got out of the hospital
he came to Trinity Center for help.
With no identification
he could
not get a regular job.
The best he could
do was stay at the Salvation Army and work day labor until
his could
recover
his ID.
It took
him several months to save up the money
for the new
IDs.
He
had to maneuver through
the bureaucratic
red tape
to get a new photo ID so he could
find permanent employment.
Trinity center helped
guide
Terry through
this process.
He has now recovered.
He has a job and
a place
to
live.
However
if an election
had
been
held during his bad
times he could
not have
voted
even
if he was properly
registered
to vote.
Doug
Bell
512 331-5201
dougbell@austin.rr.com
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Another friend
is Jose not real name.
He
is a member of the working poor.
He holds
regular jobs from time to time.
In the spring and summerhe does landscaping.
Sometimes
he is homeless and sometimes
he has a place
to
live.
A few months ago
all of his identification was stolen.
Without a photo
ID he could
not get a regular job.
Fortunately
he survived
on part-time work.
It was very hard for him to save up enough
money to apply for his birth certificate
and a photo
ID.
He finally
did receive
his
replacement photo ID but
it took
him many months and
a lot of money.
Don
is another
friend we met at Trinity Center.
He
is a mechanic who came to Austin
for a job. As soon as he arrived
his truck was stolen.
His tools
and
his wallet
were
in
the truck.
Since
he was going
through
a divorce
he had
all of his possessions in the
truck
and no place
to
live.
He filed
a police
report but the truck was never found.
Trinity Center helped
him get back
on his feet and work through
the process of
replacing his ID cards.
This took
several months which
left Don with no place
to
live
and
no job opportunities.
He has now recovered but for a long time he was down and
out.
Voting was probably
not his main concern during this period
in his life.
But
if he
had been disenfranchised
by his own
State government
it would
have just been
another
sign that
no one
cared
about him.
Why does
it take so long to get a photo ID
When someone
living
on the edges of society looses they identification
they dont know
where to
start.
They dont have
any back up identification
to even
start the process.
Usually they get help from shelters or agencies who work with the homeless and
working
poor population.
They are given
a
list of documents
they will need
to get a
photo
ID.
Most people start by getting
a certified copy of their birth
certificate.
The Texas
Department
of Public Safety DPS calls this a secondary
document.
You need one
secondary document and two supporting
documents
to apply for a drivers license or
Texas photo
ID.
If you were born
in Texas you can apply to the Texas Department
of
Health
for a certified copy of your birth
certificate.
The process takes
2-4 weeks and
costs $22.
If you were born
in another
state
the process can take
6 weeks
to 3 months
and
costs around
$30.
Once you receive your birth certificate
you need
to get two supporting
documents.
The
most common one is a social
security
card.
You have
to present your birth
certificate
to
get a social
security
card.
The replacement cards
are free
but
it takes
10-14 days to
get the card
in the mail.
Doug
Bell
512 331-5201
dougbell@austin.rr.com
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For the second
supporting
document many people request copies
of their school
records from their high school
or middle school.
This can
often
be done by faxing the
school
and
paying
a fee of $5-$10.
The process is usually done by mail and takes
2-3
weeks.
Once you have your birth certificate
secondary
document
and two supporting
documents you can apply at the DPS
office for a drivers license or Texas photo
ID
card.
You must appear
in person at a DPS
office.
The drivers license costs $24 and
the Texas photo
ID costs $15.
After you apply you must wait 10-14 days to receive your
new photo
ID in the mail.
In summary the process for getting
a photo ID takes
a minimum of 6-10 weeks
if
everything works perfectly.
It also costs $22-$50.
The biggest problem is usually
finding
the money.
However
if an election
is coming soon time
is a problem too.
Another unexpected
problem happened
in the fall of 2005.
Hurricanes
Katrina and
Rita
hit the Gulf Coast.
Thousands of evacuees
flooded Texas
cities.
Many had
lost their
identification
in the floods or in their haste
to flee the storms.
So the Texas and
Louisiana agencies who issue birth certificates
school
records and photo IDs were
flooded with applications.
The chaos created
by these natural
disasters caused
thousands
of individuals
to suffer without
proper identification
for many months. This
caused
a lot of economic
hardship.
If an election
had occurred
many would
have
been
disenfranchised
too.
That would
have
added
insult to injury for poor people already
suffering
from a natural
disaster.
The voter ID legislation
currently
being
considered
by the Texas Legislature will place
unnecessary
and burdensome requirements
on the working
poor and homeless people
in our State.
They are the least
likely people to have
a photo ID when
it comes time to
vote.
Women
in poor families
will especially be affected.
These women
often do not
drive
and
do not have drivers licenses.
If Texas now requires a photo ID to vote they
will not be able to afford
the applications fees or be able to take
the time off to go to the
DPS office and the Social
Security
office.
There
is not enough money
in these families
to pay for two photo
IDs.
So only the husband
will be able to vote.
Many of the working
poor and homeless population
will not be able to comply with the Voter
ID rules
currently
being
considered.
Their
rights will be taken away by this defacto
poll tax.
Doug
Bell
512 331-5201
dougbell@austin.rr.com
Page
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M
League of United Latin American Citizens
LUIS ROBERTO
VERA JR.
National
General
Counsel
March 9 2009
To The Honorable
State
Senators
of Texas
Re Committee Considering Voter Identification Bill
LULACs OBJECTION AND ARGUMENT AGAINST
VOTER IDENTIFICATION BILL
LULAC
through-its
National
and
State of Texas
board of directors unanimously
call on you the State Legislators
of Texas
to
stand with us in protecting
the Voting
Rights of all the citizens of Texas.
In addition LULAC
asks you to protect
the voting
rights of Latino
voters
as mandated
by sec.
5 and
sec.
2 of the Voting Rights
Act.
Specifically
LULAC
argues
against
the passage of any voter identification bill until
such
time as Texas
can guarantee
zero tolerance-of
voter discrimination
and implement
all of
the protections
of the Voting Rights
Act and as ordered
by the US Supreme Court.
Given
the history of Texas we are certain that
this will be a long time in coming.
Recent
History
In the preceding
3 years 2005 2006 2007 the Voting Rights
section
of the
Department
of Justice filed
10 separate
lawsuits
against
the State of Texas.
All
10 suits
were
for discrimination
against Mexican Americans
and
1 of the
suits involved
discrimination
against
Mexican Americans
and African
Americans
combined.
There was
also a separate
lawsuit in Harris County for discrimination
against
Vietnamese
Americans.
All suits
were
successful
against
Texas
and the State
entered
into consent
agreements
to correct
the discrimination.
During
this same time period
several
suits
were brought by LULAC
and MALDEF against
Texas
and
separate
individual
government
entities
for discrimination
against
Mexican Americas.
In LULAC v Perry
the US Supreme Court found
that
Texas purposely discriminated
against Mexican
Americans
in congressional
district
23 for purely
political
purposes.
The US Supreme
court ordered a remedy.
In FarmersBranch Texas the federal courts
have
enjoined
the
City from implementing discriminatory
ordinances which have the
effect
of targeting
people of Mexican descent.
The federal
court found
the ordinance unconstitutional.
Texas
has spent millions of taxpayer
dollars to defend and remedy these suits.
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1
Below are some excerpts
from the US v. Hale County TX complaint brought by
the Voting Rights section
for purposeful
discrimination
against Mexican Americans.
Hale County entered
into a consent
agreement to correct the problem.
12.
Section 208 of the Voting
Rights Act provides that aany voter who requires
assistance
to
vote by reason
of blindness
disability
or inability to read or write may be given assistance
by a
person
of the voters
choice other than the voters
employer
or agent
of that employer
or officer
or agent
of the voters
union.
42 U.S.C.
1973aa-6.
13.
In violation
of Section 208 the Defendants their employees and agents have failed
to allow
voters the assistors
of their choice through
the following
practices
a Prohibiting
family members and poll watchers
from providing
assistance
to limited
English
proficient
Spanish-speaking
citizens.
b Requiring
Spanish-speaking
voters
to be assisted by poll workers who
either
did
not speak
Spanish
or did not speak Spanish
fluently.
c
Failing to accurately
and adequately
instruct poll workers
on their duty to permit voters
assistance
from any person
of their choice
other than their employers
or union
officials.
14.
Defendants failure to
allow
voters
to receive
necessary
assistance
from any person
of their
choice
other than their employers
or
union officials
as described
herein
is a violation
of Section
208 of the Voting
Rights
Act. 42 U.S.C.
1973aa-6.
15.
Unless enjoined by this Court Defendants
will continue
to violate
Section 208 by failing to
provide
Hale Countys voters
with the opportunity to receive assistance
from persons
of the
voters
choice and by limiting the scope
of the assistance
voters
can
receive
from their chosen
assistors.
SECOND CAUSE OF ACTION
16.
The
Plaintiff
hereby alleges and incorporates
by reference
paragraphs
one through
sixteen
above.
17.
Under Section 203 of the Voting
Rights Act any registration
or voting
notices
forms
instructions
assistance
or other materials
or information
relating to the electoral
process
including
ballots that
Defendants
provide
in English must also
be furnished in Spanish
to
Spanish-speaking
voters.
42 U.S.C.
1973aa-lac.
18.
In violation
of Section 203 the Defendants their employees and agents have not effectively
provided
election-related
materials
and information
in Spanish
to limited
English
proficient
Hispanic
citizens
as required by Section 203 of the Voting
Rights Act
including but
not limited to
the following
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a Failing
to recruit
appoint
train and maintain an adequate
pool
of bilingual
poll officials capable
of providing
effective
language
election
information
and assistance
to limited
English
proficient
Spanish-speaking
citizens
that
it provides
in English
and
b Failing
to provide
certain
election-related
information
that
it provides
in English
including
but
not
limited to information
publicizing
elections
in a manner that
assures
Spanish-speaking
voters
an
effective
opportunity to be informed
about
election-related
activities.
19.
Defendants failure to provide
effective
Spanish
language
materials
and information as
described
herein
constitutes
a violation
of Section 203 of the Voting
Rights Act
42 U.S.C.
1973aa-lac.
NVRA
National
Voter
Registration
Act
Section
7 of the Act requires
states
to offer voter
registration
opportunities
at all offices
that
provide
public
assistance
and all offices that
provide state-funded
programs primarily engaged
in
providing
services
to persons
with
disabilities. Each
applicant
for any of these
services
renewal
of services
or address
changes must be provided
with a voter
registration
form
of a declination
form as
well
as assistance
in completing
the form and forwarding
the completed
application
to the
appropriate
state
or local election
official.
Before Consideration of Voter ID Bill Texas
must put
a premium on election judges
that
are bi-lingual and that represent
a cross section
of the community
Hispanic
African
American
Asian....
etc.
Under Sec.
5 of the VRA Texas
has
the burden
to prove that any voter
id plan is
not
discriminatory.
With this in mind Texas
needs
to have solid numbers of who does
and who does not
have valid IDs.
In Georgia
v. Ashcroft the ID requirement was found
to be unconstitutional
until
Georgia made IDs available
for free including
secondary documents
birth certificates
...et
and implemented
a strong
voter education
program including
how to acquire
valid IDs.
The court also ordered
a sufficient time period
for voters
to be educated
and
obtain
their valid IDs.
It is clear from the Georgia
decision
that
voter ID in Texas cannot be
accomplished
this year or at any time until
the legislature first allocates the resources
and
designs
a plan to provide free IDs together
will all secondary documents.
Texas must
also fund and implement
a strong
voter education
program for the voter ID process
together
with the other protections
ordered
by the
court.
Options
-
Give everyone
a free ID and supporting
documents
ie.
Birth certificates
-
If the presumption
is that having
valid ID drivers license
implies
citizenship
then provide automatic
voter registration when a drivers license or other valid
ID is issued.
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Pursuant
to the national
voter registration act Texas must make
photo IDs
available
for free wherever voter registration is available.
To abandon
a system that
has
fairly allowed
Latinos
to
gain
political
strength
in
Texas
and substitute
in its place
a system
that
has the potential
to dilute
Latino
votes
is
likely to lead
to
a retrogression in the position
of racial
minorities with respect
to their
effective
exercise
of the electoral
franchise.
Miller v. Johnson
515 U.S. 900 926
1995 quoting
Beer v. United
States 425
U.S.
130
141 1976.
In light of the
fact
that
the proposed change brought
forward by the Texas
legislative committee
is likely
to violate
both sections
5 and 2 of the federal Voting
Rights Act LULAC urges you
to NOT ADOPT the proposed voter
id bill.
LULAC
has participated
in over 400 court ordered
elections in Texas
since
adoption
of the Voting Rights
Act and will vigorously
challenge
any voter ID bill.
LULAC is ready to pursue an objection
before
the voting
rights section
of the department
ofjustice and if necessary the federal district
courts
to
stop any voter ID bill until. such
time as Texas
adheres to LULACs objections recommendations
and options.
Respectfully
submitted on behalf of the National
and Texas
State Board of the
League of United
Latin
American
Citizens
/S/Luis
Roberto
Vera Jr
Luis Roberto Vera Jr
cc
Rosa Rosales LULAC National President
Joey Cardenas LULAC
Texas
Director
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SB 362 Voter ID Bill
My name is Daniel Dodd the Democratic
Chair of Collin County and I come before
you today to oppose
SB 362.
Many of you were elected by Republican
or Democratic
voters
in your district
but
when you serve you represent every citizen in your district including Republicans
Democrats
independents and even
nonvoters. Your constituents
are not the lobbyists
and corporations
that outnumber
and besiege
you every day. Today I am talking on
behalf of your constituents.
This Voter ID bill is a solution looking
for a problem. There
is no verification
that
unqualified voters
are besieging
our polling places. Yet some in our legislature
have
made a concerted
effort to promote
a bill that
disenfranchises
registered elderly and
disabled
voters and financially-challenged
students who may have
difficulties
getting
photo ID cards.
Voter IDs were a problem in Indiana just last May when twelve nuns were denied
their right to vote
although they had voted
at their polling place
for a decade or more.
Those nuns
all retirement home residents at Saint Marys Convent
near Notre Dame
University were denied ballots by a fellow
sister and poll worker just because
the
women
in their 80s and 90s did not have valid Indiana photo ID cards.
This bill will affect
older Democratic
and Republican
voters alike so just for
arguments sake lets say this bill would prevent
30000 registered voters from
voting
10000 Republicans
and 20000 Democrats
state-wide. Some would say that
is
http//articles.latimes.com/2008/may/07/nation/na-voterid7
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a 10000 net gain for the Republican
Party.
In reality its a 30000 total loss for
both parties
and Texas voters.
We claim the United States is the most Democratic
country in the world. Yet Iraq
outvoted us 72%to 60% in 2004-05
elections when their entire population
was
literally under the gun.23 We should be encouraging
our citizens
to register educate
themselves on the candidates
and issues and
vote.
Instead our state executive
and
legislative
branches
seek
partisan ways to deny registered voters their right to vote
and unregistered
voters the right to register. In contrast
the California Secretary of
State mails every voter household
a sample ballot with the pros and cons on the
candidates
and issues and their polling place
dates and locations.4
They encourage
everyone
to vote because its the right thing to do. Texas should do it too.
Like Diogenes the Greek philosopher
who carried a lamp during
the day looking
for
an honest man voters
are looking
for statesmen
like Sam Rayburn Barbara Jordan
and Jake Pickle who passed through this very legislature
serving without the
partisanship and rancor we see today.5 I urge you to vote
against SB 362
and every
Voter ID bill before
this legislature.
Anything
else denies
the rights of Texas
citizen
voters.
Thank you for allowing
your constituents
to testify on SB 362 before the Senate of the
Whole.
2 http//www.asianews.it/index.phpIenart2460dos35sizeA
3
http//elections.gmu.edu/Turnout
2004G.html
4 http//vote-ca.org/gclidCKm9vpuylokCFQVhnAodwXwWbw
5
http//www.blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Philosophy/Diogenes
htm
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Honorable Members of the Texas
State Senate
I appreciate
the opportunity
to address you personally
and comment on SB362.
My name is Nancy Glasscock
and
I reside in SD24 Bell County Texas.
Several
credible sources recently forecasted
that between
100000-300000
Texans
will lose
theirjobs in 2009.
Texas
lacks
adequate
funding for transportation
education and
healthcare-
areas considered
to be in crisis
in our great State.
We lead the
nation
in
highest
homeowners
insurance
auto insurance and
electricity
rates.
Were in the midst of
exposure to Mexican
drug and gang wars spilling over
into our State.
Yet what
urgent
priority
have Republicans
leaders
chosen
for the 81st Texas
Legislative Session The best
description
of SB362 Ive heard so far comes from Senators Gallegos and
Ellis-the
phantom menace of voter impersonation at the polls.
Proponents
of this
bill want
us to believe
that a problem exists but Royal Masset
disagrees. For those of you
unfamiliar
with Mr. Masset he is a consultant
who has been
involved
with over 5000 Republican campaigns
in the State of Texas.
quote
His experience
is that in-person voter fraud is nonexistent.
It doesnt
happen
and if you
really analyze
it it makes no sense because whos going to take
the risk of going to jail on
something
so blatant that maybe changes
one vote Millions of Texans
including
myself
agree and were asking the same question who Is willing take that risk
Proponents
of this bill want
us to believe
that a person who is in this country
legally
holds a green card and
is awaiting
US citizenship
approval
will take the risk of being
jailed fined deported and lose his/her
right of ever becoming
a US citizen-
just to cast
a
vote impersonating a dead
person.
Ladies and Gentlemen come on It doesnt make sense
and its grossly
far fetched.
It doesnt even make sense when
one considers those in this
state illegally. Illegals arent interested
in exercising their right to vote-they dont have
one. Theyre doing everything
in their power to stay under the detection
radar the same
way they got into this state because
Texas
has missed previous
opportunities
in making
border security
a priority. Impersonating a dead person at the polls Really
The Texas
Attorney
Generals
office
has prosecuted
22 cases of voter fraud over the last
six years and
not one case NOT ONE CASE would have been prevented by requiring a
photo ID.
How does
that substantiate
the need for SB362 With all due respect it appears
Senator Fraziers
bill is an effort to intimidate
legitimate
legal
registered voters
who may
or may not be able to produce
a photo ID when
they show up to cast their vote. As a legal
Texas voter a voter registrar and a sixth generation
Texans
it makes me mad.
If legitimate
voters
have completed the process to register and are listed on the voter roll why would
you want
to discourage
their participation
With all due respect
I think
the answer
to that
question
is bogged down
in more partisan misplaced
priorities. SB362 doesnt make sense
for these reasons and as Republican campaign
expert
Royal Masset
pointed
out.
Most
importantly
taking
a non-Issue
like photo ID and trying to legitimize it as a real issue
Is shameful
and undermines
the integrity
of the election process.
SB362 is not only a
non-issue
but its also bad stewardship of our tax dollars especially when more critical
discernible
issues
are at stake
in this legislative
session.
The fact of the matter
is voter fraud does exist but
it lends
itself in moresystematic
ways
through
ballot box stuffing
voter machine
manipulation registration list manipulation
and
absentee balloting.
So
I offer Senator Frazier and his honorable
colleagues
alternatives.
Protect
the integrity of the election process by requiring
the Secretary
of State improve
poll worker training in every
county.
Which by the way-accounts
for a vast
majority of
election fraud. Budget
for and if necessary
request
more federal HAVA funds for Texas
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elections so poll workers are professionally
trained and accountability
standards
are met
before
being allowed to work ANY
election.
And
I urge the Honorable Senator Frazier and
his colleagues
demand that Texas
backs up every
electronic
voting
machine
with a paper
trail. These
are real election
issues
which
need your attention
not voter impersonation of
dead
people at the polls.
So lets cut through
this thinly
veiled partisan attempt to suppress Democratic
voter
turnout.
Lets save
the taxpayers money. We are after all experiencing
a budget deficit
arent we Lets make Texas
the model standard as the state with the most convenient
and
most efficient
election process
in the nation. You can start today by solving
the problems
we KNOW
exist.
Members of the Texas
Senate
stop playing ghost voter games with the very democratic
process which afforded
you the honorable seats
you
hold
today.
I urge you please vote
AGAINST
SB362.
I appreciate
your time and consideration.
Nancy Glasscock
909 Westend Drive
Temple
Texas
76502
254-7809047
Senate
District
24
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Rachel Baker Ford
3317 Knights Haven Lane
Garland Texas 75044-5429
RE Voter ID Bill SB362 Frasher
I am opposed to the to the Voter ID bill.
There are numerous
reasons someone would not have ID. None have
anything to do
with their citizenship
status.
For example many people do not have
a drivers license
because
they cannot afford insurance. The homeless have no addressto list so they
cannot really get any formof ID. A 2006 study by the non-partisan
Brennan Center for
Justice found
that 18%ofAmericans
age 65 and over did not have a photo
ID. The
Texas Conservative
Coalition Research institute reported 37%of Texans over the age of
80 do not have a drivers license.
The same study found
that 25%of African
Americans
do not have a government issued photo
ID. According to data from the US Census
Bureauwomen are more that twice as likely as men to not have a drivers license.
One
in five senior women do not have a drivers license.
The Texas DepartmentofVital
Statistics reports an average of 200000 marriages and divorces each year. After a
change
in marital status it can take up to two months to get a new ID In the interim
the name and/or addresswould not match the voter registrationdocument.
An
academic study of the 2004 presidential election conducted
for the Federal Election
Assistance Commissionfound
states with Voter ID laws have an overall turnout
reduction
of 3% in the general population 5.7% among African
Americans and a 10%
reduction among Hispanics.
Philosophically having a drivers license
State ID or other identification is a privilege
which The State is able to take it fromyou ifyou dont complywith the law for
example ifyou drive without insurance. Voting is a rightand is therefore inalienable.
Under no circumstances
can a privilege ever trump a right.
Furthermorethe right to vote
is enshrined in the Constitution in several places and
eight of the 27 amendments expand the right to vote
- Amendments12 14 15 17 19
23 24 and 26. The Constitution has never been amended to limit the right to vote.
The act ofchoosing who represents you is the central act of the citizen of a democracy.
The poor the disenfranchised
the homeless or anyone else who may have difficulty
providing a photo ID
are just as much citizens
of this country as you or I or anyone
else. And they have
the same right to participate in our systemof government.
Rachel Baker Ford
March 10 2009
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March 10 2009
Dear Chairman and Committee Members
I support
SB 362 and HB 125
How
important
is your vote
It
has
the
potential
to
change
the
course of your city
community
school
board county
state
and your country.
Senator Wendy
Davis
denounced
the
senate
rule change
and
said the
legislature has
more important things to consider.
How
important is it when
someone gets
elected
and changes
the course of the country
Take the example of Lyndon
Baines Johnson.
Rememberthe southwest county that gave
LBJ his Senate
seat and he went on to become Vice-President
and President.
Remember
Vietnam
Senator Mario
Gallegos
said Just because
the
court
decision
indicated
that its legal
doesnt mean
that
its
right.
The
Supreme
Court doesnt have
a
vote
in the
Texas
Legislature.
Does that mean
the US Supreme Court decision
on Civil Rights has no
place
in the Texas Legislature
No place in redistricting
to meet
Civil Rights mandates
No place
in the campaign
laws Does that also mean
the
State and US Constitutions
have
no place in the
State Legislature
Lets look at Florida
in the 2000 presidential
election.
The election
process
debate
and
lawsuits
destroyed
the confidence of the election
process.
President
Bush never regained
the majority
support
to get things done
for the betterment
of the country.
Prove Voter fraud
It is extremely difficult
to prove
voter fraud
but so
easy commit
fraud and get away with it. When someone fills out a voter registration card to vote
it is
done on the honor system.
You could effectively fill out multiple
cards.
When
you request
a mail in ballot
it is on the honor system but so easy to commit voter
fraud.
We
have
lost
the
integrity of voting
at
the
voting
booth.
ACORN
has
successfully
registered
so many fraudulent
voters it is very difficult
to correct.
Fraud allegations have
been made
against ACORN and lawsuits
have
been
filed
against ACORN.
The lawsuits
have
proved
voter
registration fraud.
ACORN
is under
federal
investigation
for voter
fraud throughout
the country.
We have
another
loss in the integrity
of a vote. ACORN is
going to receive
$4.2 Billion Dollars
to expand
its role in the voting
presence ridden
with
the potential
for more fraud in voter
registration.
State
Representative
Mark Strama
on many
occasions
has
mentioned
that
photo
id
disfranchises
the
electorate.
He would do
everything
he could to block
the legislation
even though
it meant going against
the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Folks of civil
rights groups
and
advocacy
groups
say it disfranchises
the
elderly
the
disabled
and
other segments
of the
electorate.
These
are
the very same people that are
required
to have
a photo ID to show
at banks
to get their government
checks
from social
security
and other forms of government
checks.
You have
to show a photo ID to cash a
check
at the bank
use a credit card
to go to a secure
area such
as the airport etc.
It is
federal
law
that
a photo
ID
be
shown
to
open
an
account
at
a bank
credit union
brokerage
account
as well
as to get
a small
loan from a financial institution
This is in
reference
to the money laundry regulations.
Do you have
an honor system to register to vote No
Do we have
the sanctity of a vote No
Is it tough to prove voter fraud Yes
How many states
have Photo ID 24 States
U.S. Supreme Court has upheld
the right to have
a Photo ID Vote.
There
are
those
that would
consider
Photo ID
as part of a package
to allow people
to
register to vote
the
same day.
So I guess it will be easy to vote in multiple
precincts
counties
etc on the same day.
One Vote - One Person will not stand under this
You can
go to the
local
flea market
to get multiple
photo ID
cards with different alias
to make
this successful.
Absentee
ballot fraud
does occur but is difficult
to prove.
It is easy to research
on the
internet
to find multiple
stories
of absentee
ballot fraud.
To prevent
absentee
ballot fraud
a common
sense
approach
would be to obtain
signatures that match whatever form of ID
is being used such
as copy of drivers license or Government Issue photo ID.
Hans Von Spakovsky
visiting scholar
at the
Heritage
Foundation
pointed
out
the long
history of voter fraud.
There have been
so many examples of voter fraud documented
throughout
the history
that it demonstrates not only that voter fraud is real but that I could effect the outcome of
a close election.
States with photo id requirements have
had
record
voter turnout.
You can find examples
of this in states
like Michigan
Louisiana Hawaii Indiana Georgia Alaska
and Florida.
These
states
are represented
by either Republican
or Democrat majorities.
Photo ID did
not disfranchise
anyone
from casting
their vote but
instilled
the
integrity
in the
voting
process.
Why
the record turnout
Because
the electorate began
to believe
that their vote
counted and could make
a difference.
In closing
we ask that you support
requiring
a showing of a photo
id in order to cast
a
vote.
This will
result
in rebuilding
the
confidence
and
the
integrity of
the
voters
increasing
the
voter turn out
and having
an honest election.
Let us not have
fraud change
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the course of our history in the community
state
or country.
There
are consequences
in
elections
that can
cost lives
we could
lose our property
and
change
the outlook of the
country
state county
and/or
city for many generations.
Sincerely
Jerry
J. Mikus
Jr.
19205 Ganton Court
Pflugerville
TX 78660
512-990-8740
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Reference material
USA Today
Posted
at 1222 AM/ET January
08
2008
in Elections/Voting
- Editorial
Law/Judiciary
-
http//blogs.usatodgy.com/oped/2008/01/our-view-on-imp.html
National
Conference of State
Legislatures
Posted
October 23 2008
http//www
ncsl
org/programs/legismgt/elect/taskfc/voteridreq.htm
Fox News Posted
February 8 2008
Georgia
Voters
See
Potential
for Record Turnout
http//www
foxnewscom/politics/elections/2008/02/05/georgia-voters-see-potential-for-record-turnout/
PolitiFact.com
Posted
from St.
Petersburg
Times February 2 2009
Could ACORN reap windfa8
from stimulus
bill
http//www
politifactcom/truth-o-meter/article/2009/feb/02/could-acorn-reap-windfall-stimulus/
DCExaminer.com
Posted
February
8 2009
Stimulus
bill funds
ACORN
despite
its history of corruption
http//www
dcexaminer com/opinion/Stimulus-bill-funds-ACORN-despite-its-history-of-corruption-39288257
html
Heritage
Foundation
Posted
February 7 2008
Fighting
Vote Fraud
With
Photo
ID
http//Www.hefitage.org/Press/Commentary/edOI0808d.cfm
Heritage
Foundation
Posted
January
31 2009
Voter
ID Was
a
Success
in November
Turnout was
higher
in states
that
took
a
simple
step to
prevent
fraud
http//www.heritage.orWPress/Commentay/ed013009b.cfm
Star-Telegram
Posted
January
20 2009
VoterID legislation
touches
off partisan
battle among
Texas lawmakers
http//www.star-telegram.com/legislature/v-print/story/I
15261
0html
Houston Chronicles
Posted
April 28 2008
VoterID
debate
reignited in Texas
http//www.chron.com/disp/stoy.mpl/from/5737873.htm
Caller Times Posted
January
29 2008
Texas
legislature gear up for another
voter
ID push
http//www
caller
com/news/2008/iaan/29/texas-legislators-gear-up-for-another-voter-id-a/
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TESTIMONY
BEFORE THE SESSION OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE OF
THE TEXAS STATE SENATE REGARDING SENATE BILL 362.
By Harley J. Spoon
12304 Owl Cove
Austin Texas
78750
512 250 1775
March 10 2009
I will not mince words in expressing my total
disdain
for Senate
Bill 362 and what it
represents
by its intent and its possible
ultimate
effect
on elections
in the
State of Texas
and
the rights of Texas
citizens.
It is my opinion that all Republicans
who have
ever filed this kind of legislation believe
that anyone
who shows up at a polling
place
to maybe vote for a Democrat does so with
innate
dishonest
intent rather than genuine
patriotic
concern.
In our system of justice one is not finally guilty of a crime until
that person has confessed
and/or
has been
proven
guilty in a court of law by a judge
or a jury of his or her
peers.
The
basic
assumption
of SB362 is that
those whose
names
are on
a poll list in the
precinct of their residence
are there to vote
illegally
before
they have ever voted
at
all.
The Republican
Party through
the provisions
of SB362 would force a potential
voter to
prove
his/her
innocence
prior to ever legally casting
a vote by making him or her jump
through
the
hoops
it
requires
of certain
targeted
citizens
in
certain
demographic
circumstances.
That
cynical
assumption
is an insult to the good
people of Texas
and
a
slap
at
the
constitutions
of Texas
the
USA.
So
much
for
Republican
strict
constructionism
The Republican
Party has through
various
means of propaganda the big lie convoluted
logic
half-truths
and outright
lies
in hysteric
support of legislation
such
as SB362
caused
many Texans
to
assume
that
illegal
aliens
and
terrorists come to
Texas
specifically
to subvert
our election
process by voting and by doing so to destroy
our
nation.
ILLEGALALIENS DONT COME TO TEXAS TO VOTE. THEY COME TO TEXAS
TO WORK.
FOREIGN
TERRORISTS DONT COME TO TEXAS
TO VOTE.
THEY DONT
BELIEVE IN THE VOTE. THEY ADHERE TO OTHER MEANS TO ACCOMPLISH
THEIR EVIL PURPOSES.
NATIVE BORN DOMESTIC TERRORISTS HAVE LONG
AGO LOST FAITH IN THE ELECTION PROCESS.
THEY EMPLOY OTHER
VICIOUS MEANS TO FURTHER THEIR
CAUSES.
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C3.
Not withstanding
the
Bettancourt
claims
that
thousands
of illegals have
voted
or
attempted
to vote by fraudulent
registration or impersonation in Harris County VOTER
IMPERSONATION
AT THE POLLS HAS NOT AND DOES NOT OCCUR.
IT
IS
ALREADY A FELONY
If Mr.
Bettancourts
assertions were true why did
he not investigate
each
and
every
instance
he cited
in order
to determine
if those
who tried to register to vote
or tried
to
vote
illegally
were
actually
aliens or people ineligible to vote
Why didnt he prosecute
those who allegedly
committed
or attempted to commit what he calls voter fraud
The
answer to
both
questions is that
Bettancourts
allegations
were
as
a result of
purposeful convoluted
logic trumped up attempts to
cause
Harris
County and
Texas
citizens
to believe
Texas
elections system is broken
and must be fixed.
His plan to fix
this fictional fault in our election
system parallels the Republicans
Partys
national
plan
to place
as many obstacles barriers and complexities
as possible in the
path of those who
voting
analysts concur might want to vote for Democrats--senior
disabled
naturalized
indigent student
and minority
CITIZENS.
One might
conclude
that Karl Rove
and Tom Delay
were guiding
Mr. Bettancourts
efforts
all
the
way.
That
after all
has
been
part
and
parcel
of
the
Rove/Delay
conspiracy
to bring about
a permanent
Republican
majority in Texas and
the USA
albeit
recently
derailed.
Regarding
senior indigent naturalized disabled minority and
student
Texans
who may
want to vote Senate
Bill 362 presents
expensive
and complex hoops
for them to jump
through
in almost all Texas
counties--especially
large and sparsely populated
counties--to
obtain
that FREE ACCEPTABLE PHOTO ID.
What about
the frail Texas
senior citizen who doesnt drive and lives many milesfrom a
courthouse
courthouse annex drivers
license office or other acceptable
place
by which
to
obtain
acceptable
photo ID.
That citizen would have
to ask someone to drive
him/her
to
the courthouse
or annex
in order to register
or take
a taxi or a bus-if a bus even
goes
from his/her
residence
to those
possibly
remote
places.
That could
be a long expensive
round trip in many Texas
counties
given
the increasing
cost of gas.
What
about
the
college
student
who
lives
in a dorm or moves
from apartment
to
apartment from semester to semester
The
provisions
of SB362 and
other
such
Republican
sponsored
bills
unfairly
impede
certain
targeted
citizens
right
to
vote
unencumbered
THAT
IS
VOTER
SUPPRESSION MR. DEWHURST
Many senior indigent disabled citizens
dont pay
a utility
bill or have
a telephone.
Many of them live with their children
or in nursing homes where someone else pays the
utility bill telephone bill etc.
The social Security
card
has no picture on it. Neither does
the
certified
birth certificate.
I could go on.
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Recently
I wrote
a
letter
to
the
Waco
Tribune
Herald
Editor criticizing SB362.
A
spokesperson
for Senator
Fraser
responded
to the
Waco
Tribune
Herald
stated
that
Senator Frasers
bill would see that
appropriate
voter
identification
would be free to
anyone who would
use the
free
photo
ID only to vote.
Great but why should
any
Texan be forced to endure the humiliation
of exposing
his/her financial situation in order
to exercise
that right to give
his or her consent to those who would govern him/her from
cradle
to the grave
Will SB 362 provide the cost of the trip to the
appropriate
photo ID
location
Will SB
362 pay
the
expense
one
might
incur for
a replacement
birth
certificate
or other costly
credentials--naturalization
papers
etc.--necessary
to qualify for
Senator Frasers free photo ID
Republicans
argue that one must have
photo ID in order to buy alcohol
get into an adult
movie buy a gun get
a drivers license
etc.
Those
are not constitutional
rights.
Voting
is.
It seems Republicans
prefer making it easier to buy a gun than to vote
I categorically
assert that the
real intent of House Bi11362 is to make
it very difficult
and
in some cases impossible for some who might want
to vote for a Democrat to vote
at
all.
If Republicans
are serious about making Texas
elections perfect why are they not giving.
maximum attention
to mail-in
balloting.
It is impossible to show photo ID in a mail-in
ballot
That
is where voter fraud may take
place.
The
answer
is that Republicans
use
mail-in
balloting more than Democrats
according virtually all pertinent
research.
To sum it up Mr. Dewhurst Mr. Williams Mr. Fraser Senate
Bill 362 is a dishonorable
attempt to crumble
the foundation of our representative
democracy--the
notion of the
consent
of
the
governed-which
is
essential
to
a democratic
republic
Many
Americans have
been maimed
or have
died fighting for the principle of the consent
of
the governed
My Dad fought
was wounded
in three wars for that right-WWII
Korea
Vietnam.
SB362
spits in his face
their brave faces
on their graves.
Mr. Dewhurst
Mr. Fraser
and all who support
the concept and intent of SB362
it is for
all of
the
reasons
cited
above
and more VOTER
SUPPRESSION AND VOTER
DISENFRANCHISEMENT.
Republicans
run to win not to govern.
When
they do try to govern
it is always on behalf
of those who dont need government--the
powerful and well connected--at
the expense
of
those who do--the
very old the very young the sick
the indigent
of all ethnicities
those
who
are impaired
in one way or another
and
those who
lack
the
physical
or financial
wherewithal
to work their way through
the maze of government but who
still have
the
right
as
citizens
to determine
via
the free and unencumbered
vote those
who will
govern them.
They
are
the very ones you are trying to disenfranchise
Mr. Dewhurst
Mr. Williams. They
are those among others who Democrats
champion and
will
continue
to champion.
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0
Senate
Bill 362 is just one more example of what Republicans--who
see their ship about
to sink in Texas
and the USA--will do to hold on to power or gain power as the case may
be.
Thank you...
Read what I have
said and then go and take
a long thoughtful
look in the mirror at what
you see looking
back.
Give
serious thought
to what you are about to do and then do the
honorable
thing
and
vote
against
this shameful
piece
of legislation.
Vote against
SB362
if you have
an ounce
of patriotism class character
and
real regard for this special
state
and nation
and its citizens.
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TESTIMONY
OF JAMES COLIN HARDING
MARCH
10 2009
PUBLIC TESTIMONY
FOR SB 362 VOTER IDENTIFICATION.
I AM THE PRESIDING
JUDGE FOR HARRIS
COUNTY
SIGNATURE VERIFICATION
AND ABSENTEE VOTING AND THE EARLY BALLOT
BOARD.
IN THE LAST FEDERAL ELECTIONMY BIPARTISAN BOARD OF 45 VOLUNTEERS
PROCESSED
OVER 70000 BALLOTS AND 7000 PROVISIONAL BALLOTS.
I AM A RETIRED VICE PRESIDENT
WITH MARS INCORPORATED
THE MAKERS OF
SOME OF THE FINEST CONFECTION PRODUCTS
IN THE WORLD.
ALTHOUGH
I
SPENT CONSIDERABLE
TIME IN MARKETING AND HUMAN RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT
I STILL CONSIDER MYSELF A PLANT/PRODUCTION
MANAGER. I
SPENT A CAREER
COMMITTED TO ADVANCING A QUALITY PRODUCT AND
BUILDING INTO THE PRODUCTION SYSTEM
THE MOST EFFICIENTPRODUCTION
PROCESSES.
I STRONGLY SUPPORT AND URGE THIS LEGISLATIVE
BODY TO REQUIRE
POSITIVE VOTER IDENTIFICATION
SYSTEMS
TO DRIVE
THE VOTING PROCESS
FROM INITIAL REGISTRATION TO FINAL CERTIFICATIONS OF ELECTIONS.
YOU NOTICE I USE THE TERM POSITIVE VOTER IDENTIFICATION
SYSTEMS THAT
CAN MEAN WHATEVER YOU WANT IT TO MEAN.
I WANT TO BE ASSURED
THAT
THE JOHN PAUL JONES
III OF 220 MAPLE STREET WACO BEFORE ME IN PERSON
OR ELECTRONICALLY
IS THE SAME JOHN PAUL THAT IS REGISTERED IN
MCLENNAN
COUNTY.
ANOTHER EXAMPLE SEAMAN JOHN PAUL JONES II IS SERVING ABOARD THE USS
ABRAHAM LINCOLN AN ATTACK AIRCRAFT CARRIER IN THE CHINA SEA. HE
SWIPES HIS POSITIVE IDENTIFICATION
INSTRUMENT ON A TERMINAL
IN THE
SHIPS OFFICE AND EXECUTES A BALLOT VIA EMAIL DURING THE EARLY VOTING
PERIOD.A
PAPERLESS TRANSACTION
IF DESIRED. THE MCLENNAN
COUNTY
CLERK HAS A RECORD DOCUMENT OF JOHN PAULS VOTE.
JOHN PAUL JONES JR. IS RETIRED
FROM EXXON BUT HAS GONE BACK TO
QATAR ON CONTRACT. THE EXXON EMPLOYEES
SERVICES GROUP FACILITATES
MR. JONESS TEXAS
ID AND HE VOTES WITHOUT SNAIL MAIL BEING EXCHANGED.
THE TECHNOLOGY
EXISTS AND HAS FOR YEARS TO INCREASE
THE USE OF USER
FRIENDLY TECHNOLOGY
IN THE VOTING PROCESS YOU CAN CHANGE THE
VENUE TO HOSPITAL NURSING HOME REHAB CENTER COLLEGES OR JUST
ABOUT ANY PLACE PEOPLE GATHER. EARLY VOTING TURNOUT HAS NOW
TRUMPED THE PRECINCT AS THE MOST EFFICIENTPLACE TO VOTE. YOU CAN
VOTE ANYWHERE
IN THE COUNTY
CLOSE TO HOME WORK OR ON THE WAY.
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JAMES COLIN HARDING
PAGE 2
YOU ARE MARRIED ONLY TO A FIXED VOTING SITE ON ELECTION DAY AND
TECHNOLOGY MAY/CAN ALSO OBSOLETES THE FIXED VOTING
SITE AS A RELIC
OF THE PAST.
BUT TECHNOLOGY
CANNOT SERVE US WITHOUT THE INTRODUCTION
TO A
POSITIVE VOTER IDENTIFICATION
PROCESS
OTHERWISE
WE LEAVE THE
PROCESS OPEN TO GAMING.
INITIALLY
IN MY OPINION ACROSS TEXAS A FEW BUILDING BLOCKS NEED TO BE
IN PLACE.
1. THE VOTER REGISTRATION
PROCESS AND THE VOTING ADMINISTRATION
PROCESS SHOULD BE ONE SEAMLESS AND TRANSPARENT
ORGANIZATIONAL
ENTITY.
2. ONE ORGANIZATION
UNIT HANDLES THE ALPHA OF REGISTERING
VOTERS
AND THE OMEGA OF CERTIFYING
THE ELECTION. THERE
IS NO ROOM FOR
FINGER POINTING ON WHO DROPPED THE BALL IN THE ELECTION PROCESS.
3.A000UNTABILITY IS FIXED AND THE AUDIT TRAIL
IS TRANSPARENT
TO ANY
INQUIRY.
4. ONE HIGHLY AUTOMATED
SYSTEM
DRIVES ALL ASPECTS OF THE VOTING
PROCESS. HARRIS COUNTY NOW USES TWO SYSTEMS
WHICH DONT SPEAK WITH
EACH OTHER.
5. THE IMPLEMENTATION
OF A STATE WIDE SYSTEM WOULD BE FACILITATED
BY
COMMON ORGANIZATIONS
AND SYSTEMS.
6. THE TRAINING OF ELECTIONWORKERS IN ELECTIONLAW AND PROCEDURE
WOULD BE ENHANCED.
7. THE VOTERS
OF TEXAS WILL HAVE MORE CONFIDENCE IN THE VOTING
SYSTEM.
8. ELECTION WORKERS ARE NOT INVESTIGATORS
OR SEEK CONFRONTATION
WHEN A VOTERS IDENTITY
IS IN QUESTION.
POSITIVE VOTER IDENTIFICATION
BUILDS EVERYONES CONFIDENCE THAT THEY ARE DOING THE BEST JOB
POSSIBLE BECAUSE THE STATE LEGISLATURE GAVE THEM THE TOOLS TO DO
THE JOB.
THANK YOU
I AM AT YOUR SERVICE.
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P.O.
Box 460944
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Texas 75046
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Testimony before Texas Legislature Senate - Proposed Voter ID Bill SB 362
Tuesday
- 3/10/09
Name
Billy J. Williams
Address 617
San
Carlos
Drive - Garland Texas
75043
Texas
Senatorial District 2 The Honorable
Bob Duell
Texas
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registered voter In Texas
since
1970.
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Ladies and gentlemen of this esteemed
legislative
body thank you for this
opportunity
to appear before
you today.
Specifically
to my elected
representative
to the Body
The Honorable
Bob Duell.
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Medgar Evers then NAACP Field
Secretary
shot down in his own driveway
for registering
Black
voters
in Mississippi as he prepared for another
crusade to dismantle walls of voter
suppression
and intimidation I dont know if I am going
to heaven
or hell but this morning
I
am going
to Jackson.
Well in that same spirit when
I this proposed bill I said to myself in the
spirit of Medgar Evers I dont know if I am going to heaven
or hell but
I am going to Austin
today.
44 years and 3 days after Bloody Monday when
thousands of Americans
mostly
African-Americans
in quest
for the God-given
and inalienable
right to vote
faced
vicious
dogs fire
hoses and angry mobs which
included
law enforcement
as they attempted to cross the Edmund
Pettus Bridge in Selma Alabama I come
here to voice
the strong
and unwavering
opposition
to
the passage of HB 81/SB
362. Despite
the expressed intent of this Bill by its author/sponsors
...curren
Texas
Election
procedures Countyissued Voter Registration
Certificates
leaves
a
potential
for loophole for fraud. Because
of this it is possible for an unscrupulous
individual to
submit several
voter registration applications
and to receive
the voter registration certificates
for
the fake individuals. Further with the current process no statutory
standards
exist to verify the
identity of individuals
at the polling
place when
they present
a voter registration certificate.
The authors/sponsors
assertion and intent is without
fact
or supportive
data
and
is misleading
on its face.
Ladies and gentlemen
I hold up before
you three documents
that currently
serve
as the pathway
for voter registration
participation
and education
1.
Texas Voter Registration
Application Properly
administered processed and monitored
by County Voter Registrars.
No Requirements
Section
5 DOB Section
8 Texas
Drivers
License
or Personal
ID or if no Texas
Drivers
License
or Personal
ID give
last 4
digits of SSN.
2.
Section 9 Penalty
for false informationor perjury.
3.
ID Requirements
reverse side.
4.
Voter Registration
Certificate Point
out
each block
and signature requirement.
Provision
for voting
without Voter Registration
Certificate
5.
Texas Voters Guide Issued
by the Secretary
of State
/AVA
JD6.
As taxpayers
I and our membership strongly
object
to paying
the cost reprinting and
redistributing these documents.
o
This Bill is badýpolicy
aimed
at producing
a chilling effect on Texas
voters especially
new voters senior citizens
and racial/economic
minorities.
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8.
It is a fathom at the opera
tactic
to address
a fathom statutory
deficiency
that does not
Closing
Voting
Rights Act adopted
initially
in 1965
and extended
in 1970
1975 and 1982
is generally
considered the
most
successful
piece of civil
rights legislation
ever
adopted
by the United
States Congress. The Act codifies
and effectuates
the
15th
Amendments
permanent
guarantee that throughout the nation
no person shall be
denied the right to vote
on account
of race
or color. In addition the Act contains
several
special
provisions
that
impose
even more stringent requirements in certain
jurisdictions
throughout
the country.
Voting Rights Act
adopted
initiallyin 1965 and extended
in 1970
1975
and 1982
is generally
considered the
most
successful
piece
of civil
rights legislation
ever
adopted
by the United
States Congress. The Act
codifies
and effectuates
the
15th
Amendments
permanent
guarantee that
throughout
the nation
no person shall be
denied the right to vote
on account
of race
orýcolor.
In addition the Act contains
several
special
provisions
that
impose
even more stringent requirementsinertain jurisdictions
throughout
the country.
Have you your parents
or your grand parents
ever showed up to vote and were
asked
this
questions
How many bubbles
are there in a bar of soap
How many blades
of grass are there in a bale of hay
Can you show me a copy of your paid in full poll tax receipt
I am sure that for 95%of you the answer
would be no Well my answer
is yes. These
and other
forms of voter intimidation
and suppressions
that I observed
a teenager
are forever
etched in my
in memoryand spirit.
Final point Too many motorists/pedestrians
are killed and/or
injured on
Texas
highways by drunk drivers in Texas
each year. However
this body has not passed
legislation requiring
that DPS
and other law enforcement
agencies
administer
sobriety
tests to
every motorist
stopped for whatever the reason.
Why not Because
such
a state imposed public
policy would stripe
local law enforcement
of
discretion
needed
to properly
do their job at the point of contact.
The same is true for this bill
if passed.
Imposing
this bill on local Election
officials
can also be compared
to spraying
the
entire Masters Augustus
golf course with weed
killer when
the only weeds sighted
are around
the
10th green
As a duly registered
and active
voter in Texas
since
1970 and
in Louisiana prior to that time I
resent having
the State using this shotgun approach
to address
a not yet validated
widespread
systemic
problem. As a Texan voter
and taxpayer who understand the perona nature
of
politics I am tired of elected
officials
who try to change
the rules of game just because they
dont like
the outcome.
3
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Effective
leadership is not only doing the right thing it also means doing things right
Provide
more opportunities
not barriers to Texans
to exercise
this most fundamental
rights and
responsibility of our democracy - the right to vote without fear or intimidation
whether
covert
or
overt
Do not pass
this bad public policy whose intent is driven by politics
and
not by the will
of the people
In the spirit of Medgar Martin
and Malcolm we stand firmly in opposition
of this
bad public
policy.
We are tired but not weary
Do the right thing because
its the right thing
to do
Vote NO
on SB 362.
4
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Skipper Wallace
Texas
Republican
County Chairmans Association
Legislative
Chairman
PO Box 886
Lampasas
TX 76550
512-556-6624
March 10 2009
RE
SB 362
Position
I Support
this Bill
Mr. Chairman and members of the Senate
it is an honor to be allowed
to appear before
you today on
such an important occasion.
Since
the days
of land slide Lyndon and the questionable
votes that were
cast for him in 1948 in South
Texas we have had a very colorful
history
of our elections in Texas.
Ballot
security
and integrity of the voting
process encourages voters to make the effort to go out and
vote
because
they know
their vote will count.
The
U.S.
Supreme Court
clearly
recognizes the value in securing the integrity of elections
when they
said Confidence
in the integrity of our electoral
processes
is essential
to the functioning
of our
participatory
democracy.
Voter fraud drives honest
citizens
out of the democratic
process and breeds
distrust
of our government.
Voters who fear their legitimate votes will be outweighed by fraudulent
ones will feel disenfranchised.
Purcell
v. Gonzalez 549 U.S.- 2006
A recent
article in the Washington
Times Published
January 22 2008 states Two-thirds of Americans
including
a majority of racial and ethnic minorities say the government should make voters show
photo
identification
before
voting
according to a new Fox 5/Washington
Times/Rasmussen
Reports survey.
Support for the concept
is overwhelming
said
Scott Rasmussen
who conducted
the poll taken
Jan.
16
and 17 of 1000 adults. What this number suggests to me is it sounds like common sense
in a society
where
you have to show ID to do just about anything.
The Rasmussen report shows that overall
67 percent
say they support
requiring photo identification
and that support
runs high across all demographic groups.
More than three-fourths
of Republicans
supported
showing identification
as did 63 percent
of Democrats
and independents.
And 58 percent
of
blacks
69 percent of whites
and 66 percent
of other ethnic or racial minoritiesbacked the concept.
On April 28 2008 the
U.S.
Supreme Court
upheld
Indianas
photo identification
law with a 6 to 3 ruling
in Crawford v. Marion.
The
majority opinion authored
by Justice
John Paul Stevens invalidates
volumes
of spurious
claims made by opponents of photo identification
requirements forever memorializing their
constitutional
weightlessness.
The Court ruled the
universally
applicable requirements
of Indianas
voter-identification
law are
eminently
reasonable.
Justice
Scalia
in a concurring
opinion refers to the burdens
of photo
identification
as minimal and justified.
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The Supreme Court
also ruled that for the few
voters without
identification
the burden of obtaining
one for free under Indianas
law does not qualify
as a substantial
burden on the right to vote.
The Supreme
Court decision
clears
a major hurdle for Texas
legislators
to pass a photo identification
law
which helps address the vast potential
for fraud that
is evident.
Requiring photo identification
to vote in Texas elections is a simple
and common sense
election
integrity
measure especially
since so many Texans currently hold a Texas
drivers
license.
The
office of the secretary of state
reports that there are 12.7 million registered voters
in Texas
as of the
March 2008 primary elections.
According
to the Department of Public
Safety
there are more than
14
million valid Texas
drivers
licenses
and almost
another
4 million valid Texas
ID cards issued to Texans
over age 18.
Currently there are 5.3 million moregovernment-issued
identification
cards possessed
by
the voting age population
than there are registered voters.
You
can do the math not many folks dont
already
have an ID.
The Supreme Court
also rejected the argument that photo identification
is a partisan ploy aimed at
admitting access to the polls. Justice
Stevens
cites the bipartisan Commission on Federal
Election
Reform
led by President
Carter and former Secretary
of State James Baker which issued 87
recommendations for ensuring
equal access to elections and election integrity.
The Carter-Baker
Commission recommended that states
require photo identification
at polling
places.
Having
been an Election
Official for over 17 years
I can tell you from personal
experience
that
it is very
difficult to prove
voter impersonation.
Unless the
Election
Judge or Clerk has personal
knowledge
that
the person requesting
to vote
is not who he says he is then it is almost
impossible to verify
the
identity
of the voter even in small rural counties.
The democrats main argument against voter identification
is that it is so inconvenient
for the
elderly
and
handicapped
to get an ID.
I have an 86 year old mother and a handicapped
brother who
cannot
do
anything
for himself except breath and talk. They both have IDs.
I asked
how hard it was to get an
ID.
They said that the biggest problem was getting to the DPS
office.
They also said that having the ability
to vote was
far more important than any inconvenience
they had to go through.
Lets
put the confidence
of the people
back in the voting
process by using an ounce of prevention
instead of a pound of cure to improve ourelection system in Texas.
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My name
is Paul Gebolys.
I am a resident of Montgomery County.
I have
been an election worker
and an election judge
since 2002
so
I speak today not
as an academic
expert
but as one of the thousands of election workers
in the
actual
trenches
who will be obligated
to
enforce
the rules that
you enact.
I also have been an educator of voters
both
at the polls and volunteering
to educate voters
on the
new voting
machines
when
adopted by Montgomery County.
Expert witnesses
have
alluded
to the additional
burdens
that
this bill would place on election
workers.
I find in this bill no burdens beyond
those we are already
privileged
and obligated
to
perform each election
day
as we get to
the polls before
sun up and usually work well
into the
evening
driving
to the county seat to deliver
the
ballots.
Criticisms heard today that our dedicated
and well
trained poll workers would be so easily
overwhelmed
I find to be a hopefully
unintended
insult
to our years of professionalism.
We have
even handled the increase
of provisional
voters
that past changes
in the law brought
us
to
the extent
that one voter
that
we had
to tell that
his provisional
vote would not likely be
accepted
turned
into a poll worker
at our voting
location
for the following election.
More important than our duties ore
yours
to
guarantee
to the voters
of Texas
an accurate
count of
their votes
without the shadow of fraud.
No matter how rare - as it was pointed
out on the floor earlier
today-
being hit by lightening
is it
is a memorable event.
So also the first time a voter
feels
that
his or her vote has been
cancelled
by a fraudulent
vote
part of their faith in the democratic
system dies.
In the Crawford
-v- Marion County decision Justice John Paul Stevens
wrote
that
despite
finding
no instances of fraud he and the 6 to 3 majority
upheld the even more stringent
voter
ID law of Indiana.
So having
a history of voter ID fraud is not required
for you to do your duty.
In Texas
it has long been known
that
you dont
need to
wait for your horse to be stolen to be
intelligent
enough to padlock your barn door.
Please
do
the right thing.
Please be pro-active.
Please prevent the chance of voter ID fraud.
It is your duty to protect
the integrity of this and future
state
governments by doing everything
you can to guarantee the integrityof our elections in Texas.
For if you do not do this any party
holding the majority in the
future will have
their election
mandate
undercut
because
the
confidence
of the Texas
voters
will be diluted.
When the voter have
lost faith
in the integrity
of the ballot box as an honest tool of democracy
they may turn
to methods
unimaginable
and unacceptable
to
all who cherish
civil and stable
government.
Paul Gebolys
14 Pineash Court
The Woodlands
Texas
77380
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Thank you for this opportunity
to express my viewpoint about a proposed
voter ID
requirement.
I have
3 main concerns.
First
I believe that this is a solution
in search
of a problem.
I can find
little
evidence
of voter fraud problems in Texas.
I wonder why this is a concern when
we have
obvious problems such as a high dropout
rate a huge prison
population
threats and murders from drug cartels
south
of the border budgetary
constraints that
will demand
all our thoughtful
innovation
and
skill.
Second
I am a pragmatist
by nature and seldom find ideology useful but
I
remember a time
in Texas when our elected officials
tended
to adhere to a more
noninterventionist ideal.
Legislate only when necessary.
Especially when the
capital R is behind your name.
I liked
it when the government
had fewer
mandates over us.
Now we even
have
to take a class to get married or were
penalized.
My third concern
is that this ID requirement
will primarily
affect
the older people
I
know and people like my daughter who have a disability.
Please do not place
new barriers even subtle ones upon the people who face
many barriers each
day.
My last comment
regards the rule change
from a 2/3s
vote
to a simple majority.
In my religious
tradition
decisions and policy
are to be made decently and in
order you Presbyterians
will know what Im talking
about.
This change
in the
rules appears
and probably is a strictly partisan move that
I find very out of
order.
I would
respectfully
admonish
you to keep
your higher purpose
at heart.
Thank you very much for your attention.
Glenda Dickinson
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TESTIMONY OF GILBERTOHINOJOSA REGARNG PROPOSED VOTER
ID
LEGISLATION
MR. CHAIRMAN AND MEMBERS OF THE SENATE
WHEN I WAS GROWING UP IN SOUTH TEXAS AN ALMOST SURE WAY TO
DISCOURAGE YOUNG NINOS CHILDREN FROM DOING THE THINGS
THAT NINOS
LOVED TO DO WAS TO RAISE THE SPECTER OF EL CUCUI OR THE BOGEYMAN.
OUR MOTHERS OR OUR TIAS WOULD WARN US THAT IF WE DID SOMETHING
THAT THEY DID NOT WANT US TO DO EL CUCUI WAS
GOING TO GET US.
IF WE
WOULD GO OUT AT NIGHT TO PLAY AT THE SCHOOL GROUND EL CUCUI WAS
THERE.
OR IF YOU DIDNT DO YOUR HOMEWORK EL CUCUI WOULD EAT YOU.
IT MOSTLY WORKED
BECAUSE IN OUR YOUNGER YEARS WE WERE CONVINCED
THAT THERE
WAS A CUCUI OUT THERE
IN THE NIGHT WAITING TO DO ALL
SORTS OF HORRIBLE THINGS
TO US..
OF COURSE EL CUCUI WAS A MYTH CREATED
BY OUR PARENTS
AND
ONLY EXISTED
IN THE MINDS OF THE CHILDREN WHO WERE FRIGHTENED BY LL
IT WAS CREATED
BY OUR PARENTS
WITH THE SPECIFIC DESIGN TO SCARE US
-
AND TO CONTROL
US
THOSE WHO ADVOCATE THIS VOTER ID LEGISLATION HAVE CREATED
A
CUCUI A BOGEYMAN WHICH THEY CALL VOTER FRAUD
IN ORDER TO
ATTEMPT TO CONVINCE LEGISLATORS OF GOODWILL TO SUPPORT A BAD BILL.
A
BILL
THAT IS UNNECESSARY AND WILL ONLY DO HARM.
LIKE THE INFAMOUS
CUCUI VOTER FRAUD IN THE FORM OF VOTE IMPERSONATION - THE FRAUD
WHICH THE VOTER ID BILL SEEKS TO ADDRESS
- IS NON-EXISTENT.
SURVEYS
TX
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ACROSS AMERICAN AND IN THIS STATE SHOW THAT INSTANCES OF INELIGIBLE
VOTERS
VOTING OR ATTEMPTING
TO VOTE THROUGH VOTER IMPERSONATION
ARE RARE AND IN MOST AREAS OF THE STATE SUCH AS THE RIO GRANDE
VALLEY UNHEARD
OF.
STATISTICALLY
WE AREMORE LIKELY TO BE HIT BY
LIGHTING.
OR BETTER YET WE ARE MORE LIKELY TO ENCOUNTER EL CUCUI
IN A DARK ALLEY OR STREET.
WHAT WE DO KNOW HOWEVER IS THAT A VOTER ID BILL WILL
SERIOUSLY DISCOURAGE VOTER TURNOUT AMONG MINORITIES SUCH AS
HISPANICS AND AFRICAN-AMERICANS THE ELDERLY AND LOW INCOME PEOPLE.
AMONG HISPANICS ALONE IT ESTIMATED THAT THERE WILL BE A 10% DROP IN
VOTER PARTICIPATION
IF THE LEGISLATION
PASSES
- SOME EXPERTS SAY UP TO
15%.
IT ALSO DISPROPORTIONATELY
EFFECTS WOMEN.
WOMEN ARE MORE
LIKELY TO NOT HAVE A DRIVERS
LICENSE THAN MEN - THE PRIMARY FORM OF
ID THAT WILL BE REQUIRED.
MINORITIES AND LOW INCOME PERSONS ALSO HAVE A GREATER
LIKELIHOOD OF CHANGINGADDRESSES
THAN OTHERS.
IN FACT IF THERE EVER
WAS A TIME THAT THIS
IS A TERRIBLE
IDEA IT IS NOW
WITH THE HUGE NUMBER
OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURES AND JOB LOSSES IN OUR COUNTRY.
CITIZENS
HAVE LOST THEIR HOMES OR HAVE BEEN FORCED TO MOVE BECAUSE OF JOB
LOSSES.
UNDER THIS LAW THEY SUFFER THE POSSIBILITY
THAT THEIR ABILITY
TO VOTE WILL BE CHALLENGED BECAUSE 1 THEIR DRIVERS LICENSE OR OTHER
ID DOES NOT CORRESPOND
TO THE ID IN THEIR VOTER REGISTRATION CARD
AND 2 BECAUSE THEY SIMPLY DONT HAVE THE MONEY TO GO FILE A CHANGE
TX
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OF ADDRESS
APPLICATION WITH THE DRIVERS LICENSE BUREAU
IT IS SIMPLY
WRONG TO FURTHER
SUBJECT
TEXAS CITIZENS
THAT HAVE SUFFERED FROM
THE INDIGNITY
OF LOSING THEIR HOMES AND THEIR JOBS TO DENY THEM THE
RIGHT TO VOTE BECAUSE OF A LAW WHICH ALLEGEDLY
SEEKS TO RIGHT A
WRONG THAT DOES NOT EXIST
NO.
I WENT
TO TOO MANY FUNERALS OF SOLDIERS
IN THE RIO GRANDE
VALLEY WHO DIED FOR OUR NATIONS CAUSE IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN. AS A
TEENAGER AND YOUNG MAN I SAW IN THE NEWSPAPER THE PICTURES
OF TOO
MANY YOUNG MEN FROM SOUTH TEXAS WHO GAVE UP THEIR LIVES WILLING
TO FIGHT FOR THEIR
COUNTRY IN AN UNPOPULAR WAR IN VIETNAM.
GARCIAS
LOPEZ TREVINOS MARTINEZ AND MENDIOLAS. THERE ARE MORE MOTHERS
WIVES AND CHILDREN IN THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY WHO GAVE UP THEIR LOVE
ONES FOR THIS RIGHT THAT WE INSIST UPON TODAY
- MORE THAN ANYWHERE
ELSE PER CAPITA IN THIS COUNTRY. THAT RIGHT IS ONE THAT ENSURES THAT
THIS DEMOCRACY THAT WE ALL LOVE IS A TRUE DEMOCRACY
THAT GIVES ALL
OF OUR CITIZENS
- WHETHER THEY ARE WHITE BLACK HISPANIC
OR ASIAN
RICH OR POOR YOUNG OR OLD - THE RIGHT TO CHOSE THOSE WHO WILL LEAD
THEIR NATION.
TO CHOSE THOSE WHO WILL MAKE THOSE CRITICAL DECISIONS
THAT EFFECT THEIR LIVES AND THOSE OF THEIR
CHILDREN.
THE DECISIONS TO
GO TO WAR OR NOT TO ENACT LAWS THAT PROTECT
THEIR JOBS TO PROVIDE
HEALTH CARE AND GOOD SCHOOLS
FOR THEIR
CHILDREN.
THERE
IS NO CUCUI HERE.
THERE ARE ONLY GOOD HARD WORKING
GENTE PEOPLE
WHO CARE DEEPLY ABOUT THIS COUNTRY AND SIMPLY WANT
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TO BE PART OF WHAT HAS MADE IT SO GREAT.
PLEASE DONT ENACT THIS LAW.
ITS A BAD LAW IT IS UNNECESSARY AND IT WILL HURT MANY GOOD
HARDWORKING
PATRIOTIC AMERICANS.
THANK YOU.
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Regarding Senate Bill362
Written Testimony only 3/10/2009
Distinguished Senators
My name is Elaine Henderson and I have written
this to explain my opposition to
the inplementation of a requirement
for a photo ID from particular Texas and/or
US government
agencies
in order to vote.
One Im sight-impared.
Macular Degeneration
is becomming widespread
in
Texas and once one cannot
pass the drivers eye test many people will simply not
have the means to travel to the DPS to get an ID.
When I got my firstID it came
with an error on it.
They had printed on it that I was very short which
I am not.
This meant my husband
bless him had to drive me there again some 60 miles
and some weeks later I had an ID. Many people dont have someone
to drive
them.
Second
in the past I worked
at the polls and found that the clerks have a lot of
things to check on the voter
lists and it is already required to present ID or a
utility bill etc.
at the polls if one has registered for the first time in Texas by mail.
This new ID check for all voters will slow down the voting process and those
people who have come from work at four or five PM may have to stand in lines to
vote for a very long time This bill would discourage voting.
Third
I am aware that this kind of measure was passed and implemented by the
Georgia legislature and as a Texan for more than 35 years I believe
Texans are
better than that.
I recently saw a book about Faith in Texas with beautiful
churches of every kind from Cathedrals and Painted churches to Mosques
storefronts and Jewish Temples.
There was even the reverent
cowboy on his
horse.
The books author declared that Texans have strong
faith traditions and
in all of them - a strong belief in the dignity of every person.
Texans
generally
try to follow the Golden Rule.I agree that most also have a strong sense of
fair-play.
So please dont be petty.
Respect
all the people you represent. Vote NO on
SB362.Thank
you.
Respectfully submitted
Elaine Henderson
6302 Camille Ct.
Lago Vista TX 78645
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I urge you to vote
against
SB362.
Why
create more barriers to voting
or increased
costs to those who must pay for documents
to
meet
the requirement of a photo ID If you do not intend
to pass on this cost then you must be
willing to pick up the
tab.
Do intend
to pass
this cost along why
Is this fair Is this not just a
new form of poll tax Is that where we have
arrived in the Texas of 2009
Or are you really willing to incur greater cost for a program for which there is no evidence that
there is a problem Of all the millions who vote
in Texas how many cases
of Voter Fraud have
been found or prosecuted
How much of our limited resources
are you willing to expend
for a
non-problem I can think of plenty of better ways to utilize
our funds.
This movement
smacks
of efforts
to
suppress
the votes
of those who can
least afford
to meet
the
requirements who just happen
to be more likely not to vote
Republican.
It is time to discontinue
the sponsorshipof Bills such as this. These
types of bills just tear our
Texas
apart rather than unite us in efforts
to make
us better.
Please vote
against
SB 362.
Sincerely
Zada True-Courage
1938 Broken Oak
St.
San Antonio TX 78232
Senate District 25
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Testimony
Submitted by
Shirley Lindsey
League City Texas
TO
Texas
Senate
The most important issue here
before
us all is preventing
voter
fraud.
This is the reason why
I
have
been here all day long to support
SB 362.
The suspicious
activities
of the ACORN organization
has brought
the possibilityof voter fraud
to
the forefront in a very alarming way just how
fragile our protection
against
voter
fraud
is.
Voter integrity is the
security
to
our Republic
system.
Confidence
that my vote has not
been
taken back by an illegal
vote is what
keeps me voting
in our elections.
All citizens
of America need
to know that
our vote
does indeed
count.
Requiring all voters
to
have IDs
to
prove
that
there vote
is to be counted
is not
something
that
any
of you should
be
against.
If you vote
against
SB 362
then that tells me that
you are taking
voter
fraud
too lightly and that
you do not
care.
Texas
citizens will not forget the message you have
sent to us by voting
against
voter ID requirements.
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Marcia Mainord
903-461-1261
Senator Duncan
and Members of the Senate.
It is an honor to be here and speak today.
I am Marcia Mainord from Greenville.
As a formerprecinct
and county chair for Hunt County I have always appreciated the
voters. We have had what
I considered a poor turnout across
Texas for most of mypolitical
life.
The 08 election was a breath
of fresh air
I rememberwhen the Motor Voter Bill was passed
that our CongressmanRalph Hall supported
and voted for the
bill with a public statement of the importance
of bringing in new
voters. While
I do not generally agree with CongressmanHall he
has my respect
for that vote.
Voting stats in our Great State of
Texas still reflect low turnout.
The stats from the Secretary of
States Office for the 08 Election show Texas had 4674612
registered
voters that did not vote in this a much improved
election
year. Hopefully that improvement can and will continue.
In Texas we have in my opinion an honest election. Despite
spending millionson a 2005-2006 Voter Fraud crusade Texas
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Attorney General Greg Abbott did not find or prosecute one case
of voter impersonation.
Even the national
stats show very few
successful
prosecutions of fraudulent voters. A national
five year
effort by the Bush Justice Department netted only 86 prosecutions
from 2001-2006.
There will always be the unscrupulous
person
somewhere out there who will get around any Law that we can
pass regarding voter fraud. But I wish to emphatically contend
that Texas does not have a problem with fraudulent voting.
My concern is that SB 362 will make voting more difficult
for the elderly and other less public persons.
There are a lot of
folks out there who may not drive and who do not have the same
public involvement as you and I.
There is an ever increasing
number of women who must deal with the trauma of divorce
relocation
and legal name change in our state. And by the way I
am Past President of Texas Democratic Women and have been
through a divorce.
I have personal experience on these issues. I
come from rural East Texas and we have different ways of living
than the more urban residents. We dont want to make
it more
difficult
for our folks to vote.
I think we should be encouraging
all legal voters
to go to the polls and exercise their right to vote.
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Finally I think the amount of tax dollars that this program
will absorb will not be well spent.
The drop out rate for our high
schools needs to be addressed along with many other issues.
Lets use these funds for public education to improve our roads
and improve the quality of the air we breathe.
And lastly I wish that each and everyone of you could have
the experience as I have of serving yourcommunity as an
election judge or worker.
I feel that you would then have a better
understanding
of the position that many newly enfranchised
citizens experience. We do not need to add more confusion
at the
voting box. Our election workers already contend with confused
and sometimes disgruntled voters.
This proposed law will make
it
worse.
Thank you so much for your time.
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OPPOSITION
TO SENATE Bill 362
Date
3/10/2009
My name is Arthur Resa.
I am the Democratic
Party Chair for Bell County and I am here to oppose
Senate Bill 362
and wish to inform you why you should oppose
Senate
Bill 362.
As County Chair for the
last four years I have
personal
experience
with
the numerous
issues
that
voters
encounter
during primary
and
general
elections.
Issues
range
from
cramped
voting
locations
wrong ballots
shortage
of ballots
lack
of well trained
poll
workers and
voter
intimidation by misinformation.
I know this
is neither
the time nor
place
to
address
all these
issues.
But
I do want to
address my experience
with
voter
intimidation by misinformation.
Voter intimidation by misinformation
can be broken down into two areas
First
is the shortage
of well
trained judges
and election workers who can make
the voting
process run smoothly. Some judges
and workers
grudgingly work the polls because
no
one else will and some fail to keep up their election
skills by working
too few elections.
This
lack
of election
skills
can
and
has
lead
to
control
issues
against
voters
and
co-workers
at some polls.
Introducing
Voter ID as part of the voting
process is nothing more
than a tool of opportunity
to disenfranchise
voters.
Second is lack of voter education.
This is a major problem
for first time voters
and voters
who skip one or more years before voting
again.
Bell County has a unique need for voter
education.
Our county
is home to Fort Hood the
largest military base in the
free world.
Many of our military families are young and
first time voters and some bring
voting
experience
from other
states.
I believe
Voter ID could
disenfranchise
our military and
veterans
to vote. This would be tragic when American
Soldiers
have
died on the
battle
fields
of Iraq and Afghanistan to allow the people of those two nations
the right to vote
In closing
I am certain that if Senate Bill 362 is allowed
to pass it will create
confusion
and
obstacles
to voting
it will
create
more opportunities
to
disenfranchise
a broad
spectrum
of voters
either consciously or
unconsciously.
The idea
that
illegals
vote
is
false
current
procedures
allow
for only
registered
voters
to vote
in
Texas.
Voter
identities
are proven
before
they were
put on the
list of Registered
Voters.
In my four
years
as County Chair I am not aware
of any
illegal
voting
or attempt to vote illegally
nor does my predecessor in Bell County.
In this great state
of Texas we should be looking
for opportunities
to encourage
people to vote and feel
confident
doing
so.
Respectfully
Submitted
Arthur Resa Chair
Bell County Democratic
Party
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Testimony
March 10 2009
Senate Bill 362
Enrique Flores Jr. President
UAW Local 276
State President Texas
Labor Council
for Latin American Advancement
Thank you for allowing me to address
tl-is body.
I 1 elieve this bill would be a big step
backwards
for Texas
and society
as
a w .
e 1-11
ave
heard repeatedly
in earlier
testimony of the many ways this bill we ald deny
Teýas
citizens their constitutional
right
to vote. Examples of voters
such
as students
minorities
the elderly and
disabled
were
given as those who will be negatively
impacted by this bill.
Earlier testimony established
that
millions of tax-payer
dollars were spent investigating
possible
voter fraud and produced
no convictions.
Requiring Texas
citizens
to spend
money to satisfy the requirements of this bill is the same thing
as instituting
a Poll Tax
on the citizens of Texas.
Im sure you will all remember a few short years
ago the images broadcast around the
world of the first post-Saddam
Hussein
elections.
The world watched
as Iraqi citizens
held up their ink-stained
fingers signifying they had voted.
Those elections
were made
possible by the bravery and sacrifice
of our servicewomen
and men.
They fought and
many died
defending
the ideal of fair and democratic
elections.
We send our women
and
ment to
fight
and die for fair elections around the world but here in Texas we are in
danger of losing our basic
constitutional
right to
vote
freely.
I ask you to remember all those who have
fought
and
served
to protect
the ideals of fair
democracy and vote No to Senate Bill
362.
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Testimony Jennie Lou Leeder
Date
March
10 2009
Against Senate
Bill 362
The 2000
Census
states
that
in the City of Llano Texas
there is a population
of 3325.
Of
that
22% are 65 years of age and older.
In Llano Texas
there are 100 females age
18
years
and over for every
83.1 males.
That 10.2%
of the population
is below
the poverty
line.
This may not
sound astounding
to you but
as
a resident
I am concerned.
According
to
the US
Census Bureau women are more than two times
as likely
as men to
not have
a
drivers license.
That one of every
five
senior women
do not have
a license.
The 2006
study
by the non-partisan
Brennan.
Center for Justice sited
that
18% of Americans
age 65
and older did not
have a photo ID.
If you look
at mytowns demographics
you will see
reason for concern.
How would the residents of the assisted living
nursing
homes and
other living facilities
meet
the requirements in SB 362 to vote
Would my town
have
adequate
representation
at the polling
locations
in regards
to
the
age 65 and older women and lower income
voters
if SB 362 were
passed
into law
Would the missing votes
be enough
of a difference
to have an affect
on the out come of
the election
If you look at the 2000
Presidential
Election
in the
state of Florida then
the
answer
would be yes.
Therefore
I must respectfully
request
that you
vote NO against
the passing
of Senate
Bill 362.
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AFSCME
We Make America Happen
Summary of Testimony
by Dee Simpson Texas
Senate Committee of the Whole SB 352
March 10 2005
My name is Dee Simpson
Texas Legislative
and Political Director for AFSCME
Mr. Chairman and Members of the Senate
I have been working with the Texas legislature
as an advocate
since
1981.
I think all of us
whether
we are elected or whether
we are advocates
have our own version of misplaced
priorities
each
session.
Today
there was
a news
bulletin
concerning
a report
released yesterday
saying
Texas had the most homeless
children of any state in the United
States.
I find it ironic
that today
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children and the communities
in which they live to be fully Texan.
For others
it is but another
obstacle
toward
participating
in the communitys
affairs. For this legislature
it might
be its
legacy.
Studies
uphold that Voter ID Laws Dont Fix A Problem and Make Another
One Worse
Voter ID laws suppress turnout-especially
among the elderly African American and Hispanics
because
the working poor and senior citizens
are less likely
to have
a photo
ID or the time or the
ability to get one. A study by the NYU Law School
found that 45% f African Americans have no
government-issued
ID nor do 18% of seniors
65 and over or 15% of those who ear less than
$35000/year.
There
is no end to the available
research to testify to the negative
effects
of Voter ID on targeted
groups. Needless
to say those made recently
homeless
even if registered
no longer
have
a valid
registration
much less the ability
to produce
many of the documents
necessary to satisfy
this
laws
demands.
For a state
noted
less for voter fraud than poor administration of the ones it has
this legislation
adds
to not only the burden
of some
of its citizens but to the states reputation
and
l..
legacy.
As someone who has worked
on elections
in Texas for over 40 years with exactly these
targeted
groups I have
seen first hand the difficulty
of getting
people to order the demands of life in order
to get to
the polls and vote. To place a bureaucratic
burden
on them and their local
election
officials seems like a priority that
comes from an old Texas political nightmare
we should have
left long ago.
The question of political
priority
remains. Given the cry of voter fraud by certain
political
operatives
consultants
and elected officials
the Justice
Dept under
former
President Bush found
86 out of 275000000
ballots cast between 2001-2006
to be fraudulent
Perhaps
we should
examine our motives
for this being made a priority when our people are
losing
fobs
some
their
homes and sometimes they have kids that need your
real time and attention.
If we dont examine
our priorities history
and voters
will.
Thank you
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Testimony
Of
Rosario Alvarez
Senate Committee of the Whole
March 10 2009
Good Day
My name
is Rosario Alvarez I reside
at 711 Hunstock San Antonio.
I
am a member of Laborers
Local
Union number 1095.
I have been
employedby Granada Homes Inc. for 10 years.
I want
to thank you for the opportunity to present my testimony before
Senate of the State of Texas.
I
am
opposed
to
any
legislation
that
would
add
additional
identification requirements before I would be allowed to vote.
First
I must tell you how
I got here. I came to
the United
States
in
1980
to
earn
some money
to
help my family.
I had
the
fullest
of
intentions of returning
to my home. But life has twists and turns that are
unforeseeable. I started school found employment married and today I
am a proud Grandmother.
The U.S. Customs
ImmigrationService have many documents
that
identify
who
I am
The
U.S.
Department
of
State
has
as
much
information concerning
who I am and I became a United States
citizen.
Additionally
I completed an application
for Voter Registration
that was
accepted
by the County of Bexar. My first opportunity to vote was for
President Obama.
How many more hoops do you want me to jump through before I can
vote again
I
do not understand if the
intent of the
legislation
is
to
stop
voter
fraud then why has the Attorney
General of the State of Texas not made
an example of at
least
one of these
bad people.
Surely there must be
thousands
out there waiting to be prosecuted.
I am confused
as to the type of Identification
that would be required. I
say this because
Granada Homes Inc.
is a project specifically for elderly
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persons.
I know
many of our
residents
walk
to
the
Bexar
County
Courthouse to vote. They do not own a vehicle
to have a drivers license.
So will they be turned away from the voting booth because
they do not
have a drivers license
Will their bus card do
Another Voter I.D. will detour many people from voting. Possibly the
Senate
should
appropriate additional funds for each County government
to do a more through job of screening Voter Registration Applications.
In closing I want to express my deepest opposition to any legislation
that would place another hurdle in front a persons ability to vote.
Thank
you for your time I have copies of my testimony if needed.
Rosario Alvarez
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CommonCause Texas
603 West 13th
St.
Suite 2D
Austin TX 78701
March 07 2009
The Senate
Committee of the Whole
Texas
State
Senate
P.O. Box
12068
Austin Texas
78711-2068
Re
Submitted
Testimony for Common Cause
Texas in Opposition
to
S.B. No. 362
Dear Committee Members
As
Texas
oldest
advocacy
organization
devoted
to
open
and
accountable
government
we
are
intently
interested
in
making
government
work
fairly
and
in
a
manner
that
preserves
the cherished
rights of its citizens.
Consequently
the State Board
of Common Cause Texas has
voted
unanimously to
strongly oppose
Senate
Bill 362.
When
considering
any change
to
the law legislators-in.similar. fashion
to
the
Hippocratic
Oath-ought first resolve
to commit no harm.
While many may offer
strong
legislative
measures
to
correct
various
infirmities we
must always
ask
if the
cure
prescribed
may cause
more
harm
than the alleged
problem.
Unfortunately
this is clearly
the case with the proposed Senate
Bill 362.
Senate
Bill
362
imposes
unnecessarily
stringent
requirements
for
identification
on
anyone
seeking
to
cast
a
ballot.
The
justification
for
these
requirements
is the prevention
of instances
of identification
fraud.
In
point of fact
the
Attorney
General
of Texas
has
never
prosecuted
a single
case of identification
fraud-a
voter impersonating
another
voter at the polls. There is no ongoing history of widespread
or even sporadic
fraud of this nature
in Texas
elections.
More simply this
is a case of a
solution in search of a problem.
Secondly
the
imposition
of
strict
photo
identification
on
the
casting
of
the
ballot imposes
a disproportionate
burden
on the poor minoritiesthe disabled and
even
women voters.
The
non-partisan
Brennan
Center
concluded
in
a
2006
study
Citizens Without
Proof
that
18% of
citizens
65 and
over 25% of African
American
citizens
and
15% of
voters
earning
under
$35000
per
annum
do
not
possess
government-issued
photo
identification.
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Additionally
the
requirement
of photo
identification
fails
to
provide
an
accurate
check
on the identification
of the
bearer.
The
Brennan
Study further
shows
that
fully ten
percent
of voting-age
citizens
who
have
current photo ID
do
not
have
photo
ID with
both
their current address
and their current legal name.
This
percentage
balloons
to
18%
for
eligible
citizens
aged
18 -
24.
Women
are
impacted
disproportionately
as
so many experience
changes
to
their
legal
name
due
to
marriage
and divorce.
Finally Senate
Bill 362 has
a fiscal
note which
is not
a realistic
indicator
of
the
cost of this
legislation
to
the
State
or Counties.
The
Texas Department of Public
Safety
is prohibited
from collecting
a fee
for the
provision of a personal
identification
certificate
to
serve in lieu of a drivers
license
of other governmentally-issued
photo
ID.
However
this
fails
to
account
for
the
cost
to
the
State
for
the
provision
of these
certificates.
The
poll worker
training
and voter education
costs
also
represent
the
very
definition
of unfunded
mandates
imposed upon
local
governments.
It
is clear
that
Senate
Bill 362
represents
an unwise and irresponsible
imposition
on citizens
seeking
to exercise
their right
to
vote.
This legislation
addresses
a problem
that does not exist with
a solution
that
is burdensome and ineffective
at its intended
purpose
while
imposing
additional
expenses
to
the
state
budget
and
on
local
governments.
We hope that
good
sense prevails and that
Senate
Bill 362
is rejected.
Respectfully
submitted
Mario X. Perez
Laurie
Vanhoose
State Chair
Member
Common Cause Texas
Common Cause Texas
State Board
2
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Young Conservatives
ofTexas
lamwiw
Young Conservatives
of Texas Urges Passage of S.B. 362
Young Conservatives
of Texas urges every senator to support S.B. 362 to protect
the integrityof
our elections.
Requiring
voters
to present a photo
ID at the polls
is a sensible and manageable requirement
that
will help to decrease fraud
in our elections.
Americans
are asked
to present photo
identification every day to board
an airplane to get a job or even
to rent
a movie.
Opponents of voter
ID proposals will claim that there has been very little
recorded
fraud
in
Texas
elections
and thus there
is no need
for this
legislation.
Do not let them fool you
Currently there
is no way to know
how much
fraud
takes
place
in our elections.
When
voters
go to the polls they are merely required
to present a voter
registration certificate.
As long
as
that
certificate
matches
the voter rolls the person
is checked
off and allowed
to vote.
There
is
literally no way of knowing
whether the person voting
is the person they claim to be.
Additionally
the Supreme Court has consistently
ruled that maintaining the appearance
of
legitimacy
in our electoral
process
is just as important as eliminating
real fraud.
There
is little
doubt
that Texans
have
lost confidence
in our elections
in recent
years.
Requiring
a photo
ID
would not only eliminate
fraud
it would help
restore confidence
in our democracy.
Opponents claim that the legislation
would impair the voting
rights
of minorities and other
protected classes
of voters.
These
claims
have
been
refuted.
The US Supreme Court has
determined
in the case of Marion
Co. v. Board of Elections that
requiring
a voter
to present a
government issued
photo
ID does not place
an undue burden on their ability
to vote.
YCT urges passage
of S.B.
362.
For more informationabout Young Conservatives
of Texas or their legislative
agenda
please
visit www.YCT.org or contact
Vice Chairman for Legislative Affairs Tony McDonald.
Mr.
McDonald
can be reached at tony.mcdonald@yahoo.com or 512 923-6893.
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Voter ID
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VoterID
Bela Marton bimarton@swbell.net
Sent
Thursday
March
05
2009
0538
PM
To
Josh
Perry
I support the Voter ID legislation so that only those can vote who are eligible. Please
voice my opinion
accordingly.
I immigrated to the US legally in 1957 arriving from CommunistHungary.
It took me
5 years to gain citizenship
and thereby
being eligible
to vote.
I therefore vote as it
being a privilege
rather than a right. All voters should feel that way and they should
prove their eligibility
to vote.
I had to present my naturalization papers since
a birth
certificate was not available. And as you know
the naturalization document does
include a photograph.
Lets keep the voter right sacred
Respectfully
Bela I. Marton MSEE PEi
391-68-50 USNavy IC-2 E-5
Life Member of VFW
Old Man by default.
211 Lynge Drive
Allen TX 75013-1522
972 727-5467
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FW Senate Bill 362
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FW Senate Bill 362
Eric Opiela
Sent
Friday
March
06 2009 0829 AM
To
Josh Perry
Forwarded Message
From June
Day jdaytexas@yahoo.com
Date Fri 6 Mar 2009 084754 -0500
To
Eric Opiela eopiela@texasgop.org
Subject
Senate
Bill 362
I have
a previous appointment
on the 10th so will be unable to go to the
Capitol.
However
I would like to voice
my support
for the
bill.
I will also call my Senator with my opinion.
Arnolds email will be forwarded to the membership of the Caldwell
County Republican
Women.
Hopefully
a
number of them
will attend.
Thank you for your efforts.
June Day President
Caldwell
County Republican
Women
End of Forwarded Message
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Support SB 362 Voter ID
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Support SB 362 Voter ID
PAUL BARTON psbarton@flash.net
Sent
Friday
March
06 2009
0829 AM
To
Josh
Perry
To
Eric Opie a
I
support
SB 362
the voter
ID bill.
We
must
protect
our voting
booths
from fraud
Last November
we
heard
about
fraud
using
made-up
names deceased
peoples
names
and
homeless
people
being
paid to
register
under
different
names
-
ALL
here
in the
state
of Texas.
we
cannot
allow this to
happen
a ain
There
is
NO
excuse
for this
If
we
can
show
ID to check
out library materials
for club
purchases
or to
board
a plane
then
we
can
certainly
show
necessary
ID to preserve fair elections
Sincerely
Debbi
Barton
663
Meadow
Park
Dr.
white
settlement
Texas76108
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ID Registration
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ID Registration
mgleming@austin.rr.com mgleming@austin.rr.com
Sent
Friday
March
06 2009 0750 AM
To
Josh
Perry
To
Whom
It
May
Concern
I
am for
the bill
362
which requires people to
have
a proper
ID.
I
and
72
years
of
age
and have
to
show
my
ID all
the
time.
I
am not
the
least
bit
offended by it
as
I
know
it is for my protection
also.
As Americans
and Texans
we
should be
proud
to
have
an ID
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Election
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Election IDs
Henry Oramas henryoramas@hotmail.com
Sent
Friday
March
06 2009 0624 AM
To
Josh Perry
To Whom
It May Concern
With
the amount
of voter fraud around
the country
with ACORN
registering
Mickey
Mouse
and the Dallas
Cowboys
in California
I think
it is time actually
overdue that we start using IDs to vote with.
Why would
anyone
have a problem
with this Do you not want the elections
to be honest and fair
Do you not want an outcome
that
represents
the citizens
of the United States
I urge you to vote yes on the voter ID Bill before you.
I asked
that
you allow this Bill to come to the floor for an honest open vote.
Sincerely
Patricia Oramas Spring TX
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Untitled
Message
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Patsy Quinn mermaid2cu@comcast.net
Sent
Thursday
March
05 2009
1119
PM
To
Josh Perry
You
most definitely
should show
your ID when you vote.
That
should
be mandatory
I am in Favor Of and
vote YES for SB362.
Patsy Quinn
Houston
Texas
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SB362
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SB362
Ruth Peterson
r2004ann@yahoo.com
Sent
Thursday
March
05 2009
1034 PM
To
Josh
Perry
I can not be in Austin at the discussion
of SB362 but Im wondering
what
has happened
to the people
who run our Texas
government
and
stood
for honesty and integrety. We have identification in every
aspect of our life to honor
the
fact
that we are who we say we are.
Only
dishonest
people trying to pull
down the government
our parents
and
grandparents
fought to establish would object
to identifying
themselves in order to vote.
Its time we started standing
up for whats right and honest
not
what we have been told is politically
correct.
Lets stand up for Texas
and what it has always been.
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I.D.
to show when voting
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I.D. to show when voting
Christine
Glass cleaning_queenl@yahoo.com
Sent
Thursday
March
05
2009
1008 PM
To
Josh
Perry
i am in favor of everyone having to show an ID when voting.
I think
this should be mandatory This
would cut down on voter fraud
and we certaintly need to stop that
now.
Thank you Alice Christine
Glass
1217
south
Jefferson
AbileneTexas
79605
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Voter ID
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VoterID
Bill surfing@swbell.net
Sent
Thursday
March
05 2009
0944 PM
To
Josh Perry
It should be illegal
to NOT provide a legal picture ID when you vote.
I am a citizen of the United
States
with a legal ID and I VOTE.
I will not vote for or support
any candidate
for public
office who does not
support
the requirement for providing a legal picture ID for voting.
In my opinion only anarchists would
not
support
this requirement.
Bill Burchard
San Antonio Tx
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SB 362
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SB 362
Pamela
Kaiser pkaiser54@yahoo.com
Sent
Thursday
March
05 2009
0927 PM
To
Josh
Perry
I support
Voter
ID
Legislation.
PLEASE
vote
in
favor
of
SB
362.
Pamela
Kaiser
31303
Bearing Star
Lane
Tomball
Texas
77375
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SB 362
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SB 362
Conner gmconner@yahoo.com
Sent
Thursday
March
05
2009
0915 PM
To
Josh Perry
Please fwd to Senators my support of SB 362.
We need voter ID
GM Conner
Temple TX
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Voter ID
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VoterID
Jan McMullen jaykayhansom_1999@yahoo.com
Sent
Thursday
March
05 2009
0834 PM
To
Josh Perry
To
Whom It
May Concern
I
do
support
the
Voter
ID
at the
Polling Places.
That
way you
will
find
out if they
are
a citizen
and it will verify
who
they
really are.
Please
show
my support.
Thank
You
Sincerely
Jan
K.
McMullen
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Voter ID in Texas
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VoterID in Texas
Jim Webb jim@Iuckyfrogfarms.com
Sent
Thursday
March
05 2009
0643 PM
To
Josh
Perry
I am a precinct
Chairman and am responsible
for ensuring
fair elections.
As a normal
citizen
I must present
positive
identification
to cash
a check and process many normal
business
transactions.
There is no more
important franchise that
each
of us has
than to cast a meaningful
ballot. To think
that
a ballot may be cast due to
voter impersonation
is unconscionable.
There is a strong need to validate
voters
to
protect
the sanctity
of the
ballots cast by honest
voters.
Please support
the
bill
to
require
positive
identification
at the polling
place.
Sincerely
James Webb
1940 Worrell Rd
Angleton TX 77515
jim@luckyfrogfarms.com
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SB 362
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SB 362
Forrest gt500kr@sabc.rr.com
Sent
Thursday
March
05
2009
0552 PM
To
Josh
Perry
To Whom It May Concern
I am in support of SB 362. We have to show ID for so many things
less important
than voting and
i do not understand why an ID is not required
of someone to register as well as vote.
Thank you for your time
Forrest Byas
1226 Phantom Valley
San Antonio Tx 78232
210-496-2193
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Written Testimony
- Texas SB 362
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Written
Testimony
- Texas
SB 362
Dave
djordan9@hot.rr.com
Sent
Thursday
March
05 2009 0550
PM
To
Josh
Perry
Importance
High
Sirs
I strongly
support the concept
of requiring
proper identification
to vote in the State of Texas.
Any
citizen
should be proud
to provide
identification
to
prove
his
or her
eligibility
to exercise
their
constitutional
right as
a citizen
to cast a ballot.
Providing
identification
IS
NOT an infringement
of our
rights
rather
it
is
a priviledge
to show that
as a citizen
we are proudly
carrying
out our civic
duty and
voting
our mind.
Ourrepresentatives
are chosen
elected
by our ballots
and these should not be cast without due
consideration.
I feel
that
the process of
requiring
proper
identification
is the
best way to ensure
that
our election
process
is
handld
fairly.
I also feel
that
we should provide proper
identification
to register
to vote
Thank you
for allowing
me
to present my thoughts
on
this very important matter.
vr
David
F.
Jordan
4013
Deer
Trail
Temple
Texas
76504
254 773-2095
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Matti
Anglin manglins@comcast.net
Sent
Friday
March
06 2009 1106 AM
To
Josh
Perry
I live
in Galveston
County.
Here
we always have been asked
to show
proper
photo
ID to vote.
It only makes
common
sense.
I have witnessed
people
attempting
to vote that
have nothing
to show
they
are who they claim to
be and they were just claiming.
It was a daughter
attempting
to vote as her mother.
We must support
ID voting.
Thank You Martha
Anglin
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SB 362
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David
Angela Cranek texas87@earthlink.net
Sent
Friday
March
06
2009
1102 AM
To
Josh
Perry
I cannot
urge you enough
to support
SB 362
After all the voter fraud our last national
election
was
filled with
why wouldnt
anyone
in their right mind support
voter IN
This will benefit
all voters from all parties
Playing politics to kill this legislation
can only benefit those who
would cheat
in an
election
by attempting
to use fraudulent voters
Please
please do not let this legislation
fail
The democracy
will cease
to exist when you take away
from
those who
are willingto work
and give
to those who would not.
Thomas
Jefferson
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SB 362
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mafox2@aol.com
mafox2@aol.com
Sent
Friday
March
06 2009 0150 PM
To
Josh
Perry
I am in favor of SB 362. We must have
voter ID.
Mary Arnold Fox
Worried
about
job security
Check out the. 5 safest
jobs_in
a recession.
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JOHN WATKINS III
johnwatkinsiii@sbcglobal.net
Sent
Sunday
March
08
2009
1020 AM
To
Josh Perry
Please
ID me as someone who wishes to speak.
I am the North Texas Director of the
Minutemen Civil Defense Corps the nations
largest neighborhood
watch organization.
I
have personally
sat watch on the Rio Grand/Rio
Bravo and viewed Zetas preparing for
smuggling
movements.
John E Watkins
MCDC Texas Chapter Director
Chief Petty
Officer USN/USNR-1963-1974
TX
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Derek Ryan
From
Joaquin
Garcia Joaquin.garcia@co.hidalgo.tx.us
Sent
Wednesday
March 04 2009 1032 AM
To
Derek
Ryan
Subject
Hidalgo County Information
Request
Attachments
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Dear
Mr. Ryan
Inn reference
to the letter requesting
information
we charge
17.50.
If you should
need any other information
please
feel free
to contact me at 956 - 318 - 2570 or email me back.
Joaquin R. Garcia
ý
Street Indexing Specialist
Hidalgo County Elections Department
956 318 - 2570
Ext. 2702
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VOTER ID
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VOTER ID
BCukes@aol.com
BCukes@aol.com
Sent
Friday
March
06 2009
1010 AM
To
Josh
Perry
PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESPONSE
TO VOTER
ID.
I AM VERY MUCH IN FAVOR OF HAVING A PERSON
PROVE THEY ARE ELIGIBLE TO VOT.
AND... FOR MANY OTHER THINGS.
BETTY
C. JUKES
187 DOVE HOLLOW TRAIL
GEORGETOWN TEXAS 78633
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welessmannlins@netzero.net
welessmannlins@netzero.net
Sent
Friday
March
06
2009
0833
AM
To
Josh
Perry
We
need
the
ID bill to
assure
one
vote
per
one
person
of
all
who
are
entitled
to
vote
in
all elections.
Thanks
Wayne
Lessmann
Bellville
TX
77418
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Monday
March 9 2009
1233 PM
Subject
BOTER ID
Date Wednesday March 4 2009 759 PM
From TOM STAUDER t.stauder@worldnet.att.net
To Eric Opiela eopiela@texasgop.org
ERIC VOTER ID SHOULD BE THE NATIONAL REQUIREMENT ESPECIALLY
IN
TEXAS. ANY DEMOCRAT WHO WOULD DISAGREE MUST BE THINKING THEY
WANT TO GAME THE PROCESS. A TDL OR A PICTURE TAKEN AT ANY DPS
OFFICE COULD PROVIDE ID FOR EVERY LEGAL VOTER. WE DONT NEED TO BE
LIKE ILLINOIS WHERE CHEATING IS THE ORDER OF THE DAY. TOM STAUDER
DONLEY COUNTY CLARENDON TEXAS.
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VOTER ID
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VOTER ID
john jarvis Dohnjarvis@att.net
Sent
Friday
March
06
2009
0455 PM
To
Josh
Perry
AS A FORMER ELECTION JUDGE IN GUADAUPE
COUNTY
FOR MAMYMANY YEARS I HAVE SEEN AND DELT WITH
EVERY TRICK IN THE BOOK
-NOT ENOUGH SPACE TO
LIST HERE BUT IF YOU NAME IT IVE SEEN IT WE NEED
VOTER ID TO PROTECT
THE LIGIMITE VOTERS
NOTHING
ELSE WILL STOP THE FRAUDS
JOHN JARVIS PRECINCT 302R CIBOLO TEXAS
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sb362
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gvecchio
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Friday
March
06 2009
0538 PM
To
Josh
Perry
I support SB362
Thank you
Glenn Vecchio
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identification
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identification
TOM POWELL tomandjohnnie@sbcglobal.net
Sent
Saturday
March
07 2009
0829 AM
To
Josh Perry
I was an election judge for the Nov. election.
I believe
sb 362 to require personal
id to vote
is essential
for honest
elections.
Licenses were very helpful
in many cases. Many people asked why we were
not
requiring
id before we could vote. Please make our elections
as
honest as possible by passing
this bill.
Thank You Mrs. Tom Powell
Johnnie
BlessedCherished
by Gods grace.
Johnnie
Powell
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proof of Id before
you vote
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proof of id before you vote
Dana Johnson danarechelle@hotmail.com
Senn
Saturday
March
07 2009
0834 AM
To
Josh
Perry
In Texas you must carry proof of Identy
so what is so wrong with proving who you are to vote. To allow
people to vote without ID should be illegal. That is how we got Obama through voter fraud.When
I
went
to vote I had my TDL on hand and would have
been happy to prove who
I was.
Thank You
Texas
regitstered
voter and carrier of my validTexas
Drivers
License
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Dorothy Leavitt
d.Ieavitt@sbcglobal.net
Sent
Saturday
March
07 2009 0305 PM
To
Josh
Perry
I support
SB 362.
I sincerely
believe
that it would help stem voter fraud and make
for much cleaner
elections.
Dorothy
Leavitt
Registered
voter in Brewster
County and a resident of Alpine.
TX
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ID Voter
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ID Voter
Paige Schweizer mpgs@nctv.com
Sent
Saturday
March
07 2009
0825 PM
To
Josh
Perry
I am in favor of identification for all purposes
i.e. credit card usage airline travel and especially
for
voting
purposes.
Voting is a privilege that is earned through
good citizenship.
Paige Schweizer
P.O. Box 4145
Horseshoe
Bay TX 78657
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Support SB 362
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Support SB 362
Charlene
White chrwht@gmail.com
Sent
Saturday
March 07 2009
1004 PM
To
Josh
Perry
Please
support
the bill in SB 362
Charlene White
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Voter ID Card
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VoterID Card
Bill Awbrey wawbrey@sabc.rr.com
Sent
Monday
March
09
2009
0835 AM
To
Josh
Perry
Attention
Eric
Opiela
A voter ID card is a reasonable
and necessary
mandate
for any citizen wishing
to vote.
Voting
is a privilege
and
individuals
should
be responsible
enough
to acquire
a picture
ID
in order to prove
identity.
I have to question
the
credibility of anyone who would denigrate
the validity of asking
for ID.
How does requesting
an ID intimidate
voters
who are legitimate voters
Why
does requesting
an ID suppress
voter turnout UNLESS the voter is
illegitimate
What
is the motive behind the idea of quashing
voter ID and allowing questionable
individuals
to
vote
Surely we all want an honest and credible
election.
Vote for the voter ID requirement.
This
is a common
sense mandate.
Thank
you.
Karen
Awbrey/San
Antonio
Texas
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Support for SB 362
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Support for SB 362
Don Van Meter kraxa@swbell.net
Sent
Thursday
March
05 2009
0346 PM
To
Josh
Perry
Gentlemen
Please accept my written testimonyin favor of the passage of
SB 362 to require voters at the time of voting to present photographic ID
along with their voter registration.
The franchise is the most important right we as citizens have and
protection of that right is and should be your primary concern.
All of the
democratic nations
of the world see an invasion
of migrants that seeks
citizenship
status without acceding to or complying with the laws of the
nation.
Dilution of the franchise takes from us our heritage and freedoms.
Please support this legislation.
Donald E. Van Meter
Attorney
at Law
4408 Ridgemont Drive
Wichita Falls TX 76309
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Voter Id
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Voter Id
Winky
Grundy wyntug3@hotmail.com
Sent
Thursday
March
05
2009
0426 PM
To
Josh
Perry
I am strongly
in favor of having voter identification
shown
every time a person
votes.
There are too many
people as we found
out in our November
2008 election who vote more than one time who care nothing
about
election
laws and come from other states
to vote
in our elections.
This must be stopped.
We show
out identification
to
rent movies
to cash checks
to prove
our age so we can buy
cigarettes
or liquor
we give
it the information
to banks
grocery stores and many other places.
But we should show
our
identification
when we vote
This
is an absurdity
but
it is desired so we do not have honest
elections.
Please make our elections
honest and lawful.
Wynnadell Grundy
Hewitt
TX 76643
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Voter IF Capitol Rally
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Sj34ok@aol.com
Sj34ok@aol.com
Sent
Thursday
March
05
2009
0346 PM
To
Josh
Perry
I will be out of the state on March 10 or I would be in Austin. This is my testimony
for the hearings. You have my permission to reword this if you think
it would be
more effective.
I have been working
elections
general primary local and early voting
for about
20 years. In that time I would say the majority of people who vote offer their
Drivers License along with their Voter Registration cards. The people feel that
identification
is necessary.
After all if you vote with a utility
bill or a check or a
birth certificate who is to know if you really are the person you are saying you are.
If we have to give picture ID to cash a check at a bank where we are known to the
tellers or at Wal-Mart where we shop regularly why would anyone object to
showing
a picture ID to vote. The notion that people will vote more readily if they
dont have to show someform of picture ID is ludicrous.
Any one old enough to
vote is used to showing picture ID at school work check cashing
or admittance to
certain venues. Please vote for picture ID. Then no one can say they are you when
they are not and actually vote against you.
Sandra Julien
1123 Statler Drive
Duncanville TX 75116
Precinct 4210
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Credit Score is 700 or Above.
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Harvey
L. Skinner
Harvey_Skinner@att.net
Sent
Thursday
March
05 2009
0429 PM
To
Josh Perry
When
i enter another
country
i must shoe a picture
id same is true when
i cash a checkboard
a plane etc. When
one casts a vote
it can and will determine
how $$ are spent
who governs
and any other issue on a
ballott.I
believe
voter fraud has
taken
place no replace
with
I know
voter fraud has taken
place
in Washington
Co. Most
instanses were
thru
igomance
a few are suspect
as to intent. Why anyone would object
to a voter showing
a
picture
id is a mystery
unless fraud is intended.Harvey
Skinner Chairman Republican
Party Washington
County
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SB 362
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SB 362
Jerry Iago4400@yahoo.com
Sent
Thursday
March
05
2009
0430 PM
To
Josh
Perry
We desire
to
issue
our support
for SB362 we support
this legislation
as just fair and the honest path
to conduct
elections.
I am unable
to
physically
be at the
Capital
on Mar. 10th but I want my Texas Senator Kirk Watson
to support
this bill.
We dont
need the problems
encountered
in Illinois and Florida
Do the right thing
Respectfully
Mr
Mrs G.W.
liebsch
4400 Silverhill Dr.
Lago Vista TX 78645
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Voter ID
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VoterID
BILL GRUBBS bill.grubbs@verizon.net
Sent
Thursday
March
05
2009
0435 PM
To
Josh
Perry
As the grandson of immigrantsI am sympathetic
with the desire for people
to immigrateto
our country
legally. I am concerned that without
voter ID we will have
persons
elected to our
governments
and
state
and
local
issues decided
by those who have
no legal
right to vote.
I
must show ID when
cashing
a check sometimes
using a credit card to buy a license
plate
etc. What
is the problem with showing
a valid
ID for voting.
Please
put this measure
in place to restore and maintain my respect for the outcomes of
elections.
Bill
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SB 362
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SB 362
mlriley616@aim.com mlriley616@aim.com
Sent Thursday
March
05
2009
0435 PM
To
Josh
Perry
Please register our support
for this bill to require Identification
as a Texas
resident
US citizen.
No one
should be allowed
to vote who is not a citizens of our state
and nation.
Robert W. and Mary Lou Riley
Shallowater Texas
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voter id
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voter id
LAWRENCE WHITE Icwhites@verizon.net
Sent
Thursday
March
05
2009
0443 PM
To
Josh
Perry
To the legislators in Austin
I could
not be in Austin
to register my outrage but
I want you to know
that our family
stands
behind the voter
id act.
It is
mind boggling that anyone would
be against identifying
voter
fraud.
The
only
explanation
I can think
of is that they want
people
to vote
who have no right.
You
have to have identification to do almost
anything
in our country
today-voting
should
be the top item on the list.
Please
pass this bill.
Thank
you
Lawrence
White PE
972 446-2032
email kwhites@verizon.net
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ATTN
Eric Opiela Testimony
in favor of SB 362
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ATTN Eric Opiela Testimony in favor of SB 362
Jim jim@lievre.com
Sent
Thursday
March
05 2009
0448 PM
To
Josh Perry
Honorable
members of
the
legislature
I
am
64
years
old.
I
have
voted
in every national
election
since
I
was
21
years
old.
In
every
case
I
was
asked to provide
an
ID.
This
means
a valid
drivers license
and
a voter registration card.
In
every
case
I complied
without question
because
I
know
there
is
an
absolute
need
to verify that
the
person who
wants
to
vote
for people or propositions
need
to
be
legally
doing
so.
To
allow otherwise
without question
will bring
about
the
down
fall of
this
great
country
Since
an
ID is required
not
optional
for everything
from
cashing
a
check
to
flying
on
an airplane
and
we
do
this daily
how
can
any
sensible
person
even
question
that
one
should
be
able
to
do
the
most
scared act
that
we
as
citizens
do
which is to vote
without this
extremely simple
and
minimal
requirement.
The
only
reason anyone
would
question
this
requirement is because
they
want
to
vote
illegally.
There
is NO
other
reason.
There
are
lots
of
excuses
but
after
you
dig
down
through
the
excuses it
comes
down
that
they
want
to
vote
illegally for
one
of many reasons
none
of
which
should ever
be
allowed.
Please
support
the
passage
of
SB
362.
James
B.
Lievre
4101
Granada
Dr
Georgetown
Texas
78628
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Voter ID
David
Hooper
davidh@ssecho.com
Sent
Thursday
March
05
2009
0457 PM
To
Josh Perry
Really
very simple. Why
not have Voter ID.
Without
it there is a real possibility of voter fraud.
With it
there is very little chance
of voter fraud.
Anyone
that is against
it is very simply for voter fraud. And
any mention of disenfranchisement of the voter is a bunch of Pelosi.
End of story.
Thank you for your consideration.
David Hooper
393 Cypress Creek Dr.
Mt. Vernon
Texas
75457
903-860-7473
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Ellen Miller epmillervhm@earthlink.net
Sent
Thursday
March
05
2009
0545 PM
To
Josh
Perry
Dear Membersof theTexas Legislator
I would like to go on record
as supporting
the passage of the Voter ID bill. Voter
identification
is important for securing
our voting
process against fraud and for the
security of the state
in general.
The standard old argument
against
such legislation ie disenfranchisement
of voters
is
simply irrelevant
in this day and age. The argument
that the elderly the poor
and
otherwise
immobile citizens
will be disenfranchised
because
they cant
get out to get a
photo Ib just doesnt hold
up. Just as many agencies and volunteers
mobilize every
election cycle to get those very people to the polls they
can mobilize to get to the
nursing homes and poorer neighborhoods
to take a picture and
give out a card with that
picture
and an address.
Perhaps including a roadmap of what the logistics
of this process
might look
like would be worth
including as part of the bill. The current lack of a logistical
system to enable elderly and immobile people to attain appropriate ID
is certainly
not any
reason to let this opportunity to pass reasonable legislation that is an important step
in
improving
our states security slip away.
Thank you
Ellen Miller
Horseshoe Bay Texas 78657
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VoterID - Capitol Rally
Greg Tomaszewski
gtomas@verizon.net
Sent
Sunday
March
08 2009 0210 PM
To
Josh Perry
Dear
Mr. Opiela
Please consider my written testimony below
in favor of Voter ID
Voting
is an earned
right not
an assumed
right for anyone
in this country
We ask
for
Id from everything
like cashing
a check
using
a credit
card
to entering
a club.
We
need
to have Ids checked
for everyone who is planning
to vote
Other countries
have these practices
as standard
procedures
why in the
United
States
do
people
feel
like we are
infringing
on them to
provide
something
simple as showing an Id
It is in fairness
to
all political
parties that the
voters who are
casting
ballots prove that they
are
in fact citizens
and
eligible to vote.
Thank
you.
Sincerely
Greg Tomaszewski
gtomas@verizon.net
TX
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Chris Eaton chris.eatonl@yahoo.com
Sent
Monday
March
09 2009 1233 AM
To
Josh
Perry
Im writing in support of SB 362.
Please
pass my commentson to my state
representatives.
In
light of the gaping
loopholes for abuse at the state
and national
level relative to identity and
citizenship
I can find that anyone
not supporting SB 362
is pro illegal and
anti-Constitution
relative
to our assurance from invasion.
Frankly without easily deviating
Texas and U.S. sovereignty and
state and
national
identity is quickly
eroding as we take
a light hand with the very serious issue of
illegals
and identity which
costs legal residents
billions
of dollars. Im working funding my own
demise so couldnt make
it to Austin for testimony.
However
please consider this e-mail
a
resounding
cry of yes on SB 362 and Im sure every one
legal that
I know would feel the same.
Respectfully
submitted
Chris Eaton
8716 Aviary Dr.
McKinney
TX 75070
972-984-0159
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I am in favor of SB 362
Wanda OLeary woleary@austin.rr.com
Sent
Saturday
March
07 2009
0748 PM
To
Josh
Perry
To Eric Opiela
I will be at the Capitol
on Tuesday
to support
SB 362
Wanda OLeary
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I am a third generation
Texan of Mexican and Spanish descent
on my mothers side and Mexican
descent
on my fathers.
Both Democrat.
As a young man my father worked on farms along the Rio Grande
during the depression
up until
the 40s.
After
the
attack
at Pearl Harbor upset that his Texan friends were
heading
to war my
father wanted
to serve with them.
However they would not accept
him because
he was a
Mexican citizen.
My father refused
to give
up hope.
After
receiving
his Certificate of
Naturalization
and under President
Roosevelts
Nationality
Act of 1940 which allowed
Mexican-born
residents to be drafted or volunteer my father enlisted in the U.S. Army where
he
was able to serve his country.
My father worked
throughout
his life to leave his family a
heritage of honor.
As a result
four of his five sons followed his example and became military
service
members
serving
honorably
in Vietnam and Dessert
Storm. One was rejected due to
childhood-acquired polio but not from lack of trying.
My father always said Toma solo lo que
as ganado y lo demas trabaja para ganar.
Take only what
you have earned and work at
earning
the rest.
He was referring not only to financial gain but also to the rights and privileges
allotted American citizens.
My father was a simple man with common
sense
virtues.
Having
been a person who spent most of his young life having to show ID in order to work my father
came to respect
proof of ID.
Proof of ID helped Texas
Jefes bosses
filter workers during the
hiring process.
It was not fool proof but it worked.
It certainly made my father
and other
workers with honest ID feel
safer.
Although
my father is no longer
with us knowing his virtues
I can honestly
say that the voter ID debate would absolutely
boggle his mind.
Those who argue that voter ID and proof of citizenship
laws are part of some partisan effort
to
disenfranchise
a select
group
are wrong about the motive
behind voter ID.
If someone is
determined
to vote
they will get proper ID.
If they move they will update their records.
If they
get married they will update their records.
Even the elderly update their records as government
programs
require them.
The argument that certain select people will be disenfranchised is
ludicrous.
Once
voter ID becomes law individuals
aspiring
to cast a vote will make
the effort
to
get a valid
ID. That
is what
responsible
citizens
do.
In this current day
and age access
to the political
process
is made
easier than ever through
technology
and
particularly through
powerful and well
funded community organizations
which
are more than ready
energized and willing to make
certain these particular select
groups are
not left out of the process.
With Voter ID as law the problem
is not that people might be left out of the political
process
quite
the contrary.
In this last presidential
election
we learned
that because
of the
overzealousness of well-funded community organizations these
so called select people were
indeed registered.
In many cases more than once.
With Voter ID the question
isnt whether
someone might be left out of the political
process
but how often that someone will register and
vote within an election.
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Whether
voting
is a privilege or a right in the constitution
does not negate the
fact
that voting
still comes with responsibility.
The most important being that one must meet the qualifications
set forth by their state in this case
the
state
of Texas.
Unfortunately
there are individuals
and officials
who are actively
trying to defeat
voter ID so
that people who they think will vote with their party will vote
and in Texas
that nearly always
means the Hispanic
who historicallyvotes Democrat.
Both my Democrat parents
are now
deceased.
My father who came
to respect
proof of ID in a
country he came to love
honor and
serve would be aghast
at voter ID even being debated
questioning
when playing politics
trounced common
sense.
Olga Rivera
Lasher
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Family of 10 for voter Id requirement
Diana Wingfield
wargift2000@yahoo.com
Sent
Monday
March
09 2009 0116 PM
To
Josh Perry
My family and I all U.S.
Citizens
and registered to vote ARE in favor of the SB 362 Voter ID.
No one wants
to deny
a person the right to vote we just want them to be identified as US citizens
eligible
to vote.
No one is going to be denied the right to vote
Fraser
said. All were asking is that people verify that
they
are eligible living
legal citizens and have
the right to vote.
Texans
already
must show either a voter registration card
or some other form of identification.
Republicans
want to add the requirement of a photo ID or alternative
forms of identification.
Six
states
-
- Florida Georgia Hawaii Indiana Louisiana and Michigan
-- currently
require a photo ID at election
time according
to
the National Conference of State Legislatures.
You are required
to have ID
picture and or
Social
Security
Card to get medical
attention
Food stamps
unemployment to get a checking
account
fly in an airplane
cross the border cash a check
obtaining
a
credit card purchasing
a home doing your taxes for Uncle Sam.if filing for a Fast Refund with a bank
involved.
You must have ID to get into school
Everyone
has RIGHTS.
What about my right to have only United
States Citizens vote
If I must bow
a knee I want to be assured the people are citizens
of the United
States.
The minorities Democrats
are trying to help get away with not having
an ID are usually
the ones getting
all the government
assistance.
That by the way do have identification
issues.
John R. Wingfield
Diana Wingfield
Robin Moore
Clinton
Stevens
Audrey Stevens
Cheryl Kauffman
Kenney Kauffman
If God brings you
to it he will take you through
it.
Diana
Wingfield
PO Box 2196
Terrell.
TV-5 160
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Sandra Propst sandrapropst@yahoo.com
Sent
Friday
March
06
2009
0458 PM
To
Josh
Perry
We in the
state
of Texas have
a prime opportunity
to be a leader
in taking
positive
steps toward
..
changing our fraudulent
voting
system in Texas
and in the United
States by passing
legislation for voters
to show proper ID in order to vote.
If we can be asked to show proper ID in a variety
of scenarios it
should be even more important to show proper ID in order to vote.
Those
Senators
or Representatives
that do not back
this legislation are saying in reality that they
do not
care to clean up our voting
system.
They dont
care to ensure that our voting
system in America is above
reproach.
They would rather allow someone that is not legally eligible
to vote
in the U.S. vote
illegally.
In other words they are for voter fraud.
They are for using illegal
voters
to build
their own political
party and insure their own
political
power.
Shame
Those
that say voters
might be intimidated
is silly. The bank
asks
for proper ID. No one is intimidated
there.
Federal govt.
agencies
ask for proper ID. No one
is intimidated
by that.
Why in the name of all
that is good sense would anyone
be intimidated
by having
to show proper ID... unless
they are in fact
ineligible to vote...
unless
they
are illegal.
I teach
adult ESL and those
students
dont understand why a
voter should not be asked to show an ID.
Its only the Democratic
politicians that dont want to require a
proper ID to vote. Why might that be
My husband
and I havein past years been in groups fording
voter fraud here in the Rio Grande
Valley.
Hidalgo
County
is rampant with voters who have no valid
address.
We have found dead people that are
still voting.
We have visited empty lots where
a voter is supposed
to live
Sending these reports to
Austin yields nothing.
Its time to clean up our voting
system that is replete with voter fraud
I challenge
our leaders both in
Texas
and in the United
States to stand up for doing
what
is right and doing things ABOVE
REPROACH.
Sandy Propst
Bloghttp//sandysstellarsuggestions.blogspot.com/
Cell 956/212-1999
Home 956/383-5050 Please note
687-8822
is no longer
a working
number.
Fax866/607-8824
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Monday
March 9 2009 107 PM
Subject SB 362
Date Monday March 9 2009 1155 AM
From Bob bob@bbcentral.us
To Jane.Nelson@senate.state.tx.us
Cc Eric Opiela eopiela@texasgop.org
Priority Highest
Senator
Jane-Please
support SB 362 the Voter ID bill.
I cant make it to Austin on
Tuesday but want to let you know that the fresh produce industry needs this
bill as much as anyone. Once we have Voter ID then we can look at
sensible guest worker legislation to allow for seasonal harvest labor.
Also we worked a poll
in south Denton on Election Day and saw several
instances that could have been fraudulent voting
but with the flimsy ID
requirementswhat can you do
Thanks
for your support
Bob Swartwout
bob@bbcentral.us
freshcutl yahoo.com
PO Box 50854
Denton TX 76206-0854
214.269.6540 Bob
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Monday
March 9 2009 1234
PM
Subject
SB362
Date Wednesday March 4 2009 959 PM
FromMary Darby marydarby@tx.rr.com
To Eric Opiela eopiela@texasgop.org
I am a Precinct Chair and an Election Judge in Dallas County Precinct 2146 and
I
support SB362.
Thanks
Mary Darby
972.203.9229
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From Dot
Adler mailtodadler@tx.rr.coml
Subject
Voter Photo
ID SB 362
FYI
I
strongly
support SB 362
the
Voter
Photo
ID
bill.
I phoned
Sen.
John Carona SD
16 my state
senator
and
urged
his
support.
This
bill
should help prevent election
fraud.
I
frequently
work
as
an election
clerk.
At
least
as many voters
present
their
drivers
licenses
as
identification
at
the
polling
place as
present
voter
registration
certificates.
Either
is acceptable if a voter
is listed on
the
poll
book.
I
live in a seniors
apartment complex
where
residents
must
be age 55. Many
residents
age 65
tell
me they vote by
mail.
Thus
they dont have
to go
to
a polling
place for early
voting
or on
election
day
and stand in line to
vote.
The law does
not
require
presenting
a photo
ID
for voting by
mail.
I question
that having
to
present
a photo
ID
prevents any
responsible
person from voting.
You have
to
show
a photo
ID
to board
an airplane
or cash
a
check.
A photo
ID
usually
is
required
when presenting
a credit
card for payment.
Sorry
i cant
be at
the
Capitol
for
the
March
10 hearing on SB
362.
I am president
of the
Dallas Downtown
Republican
Womens
Club which
meets
that
day
at Dallas County
Republican
Headquarters..
Best regards
Dot
Adler
535 Buckingham
Rd. 1202
Richardson TX
75081-5177
972-235-5703
dadlerC.tx.rr.com
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From Louella
Roush mailtoIouroushCa
sbcglobai.net
Sent
Saturday March 07 2009 931 AM
Subject Voter ID
I think
it is as important to have photo voter ID as it is to have photo drivers
license.
We
have enough problems with unlicensed
drivers.
We need
to be able
to identify lawful
voters.
Who is driving
our elections People who are entitled to vote
and want
to vote
will understand and comply with photo voter ID as being a reasonable
protection
to
prevent
people from voting
who are not
lawful
citizens.
Last November
I served as an election
official
for the first time during a presidential
election.
There were
no problems
asking for photo
identification.
Most people used
drivers
licenses.
The main problems
were with identifying residency
to vote
in that
precinct.
Some we referred to the correct precinct.
The election judge was our back
up
regarding
a question
about a voters eligibility
to vote
there.
And then there is the option
of a provisional
vote
so a person can vote
and be verified for eligibility
later if the vote
count is close.
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Jamie Mathis
From
Jessica Edwards
Jessica@scotjfrost.com
Sent
Monday March 09 2009 1100 PM
To
tad@tdtexas.com
Subject
Senate
Bill 362
I am a 74 year old
female who disputes
the idea that
it creates a problem
by requiring
to show
picture
ID for
voting
unless
I was illegal.
I have to show
my drivers
license
for conducting
daily business
such
as grocery
shopping
and paying
by check
or credit
card.
I have to show
my picture
ID regarding
any financial
transaction
or
when
I go to a new doctor.
When
I signed
up for social
security
I had to show
my birth certificate
marriage
license
and photo
ID.
So who
is kidding
who by saying
that
it would
stop people
from voting
if they have to show
ID.
If
they are even living a simple
life style they
will have to show
an ID routinely.
Lets
be honest about
what this issue
really is involving.
Thank
you
for your time.
Geneva
Billey
3/10/2009
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From C Cates
maiitocarolcatessbcglobal.net
Sent
Saturday March 07 2009 1115 AM
To Toni Anne
Dashiell
Cc Diane Fulton
Subject Written
testimony
Toni
Pis share as testimony
I am unable to attend
but will email my reps and
senators.
Dear Senators and Representatives
please be sure to support
Senate
Bill
362 the Voter ID bill. It is a known fact that the people who are against it
are corrupting the system and this keep bill keeps them from stealing
votes.
I am an American citizen work hard and pay my taxes and my vote should
count
not someone who wants to cheat
the system.
Thank you
Carol Cates ARW Chapter
11706
Running Fox Trail
Austin TX 78759
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From BDewberryCaaol.com
mailtoBDewberryaol.com
Sent
Saturday March 07 2009 100 PM
To Toni Anne
Dashiell
Subject
Support
Voter ID
Its self-evident
that
our precious
freedom
is at stake.
If anyone
can
vote without
documentation
and without
penalty
if caught responsible
citizens
will be out-voted
every time. This
is a landmark
time for our country.
Please see
that
voters
are who they say they are and only get ONE VOTE
Thank
you for your efforts
on behalf
of our representative government
Bob Dewberry
7532
Glen
Albens
Dallas
TV 75225
214 521-1963
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Gentlement
We strongly
urge each of you
to actively
support
Senate
Bill 362 so that we Texas
citizens
can
see positive
results
in our efforts
to significantly
improve
the voting
integrity of the State of Texas
primaries and general
elections.
Thank
you
for your positive
consideration
to this request.
Resptecfully
submitted
Brenda
B.
James
C. Woodall
9000 Bell Mountain
Dr.
Austin
TX 78730
Ph 512 502-0111
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March 06 2009.
I will like to share with you part of the process for eliminatingvoter
fraud in Mexico. Mexico has just one day for the citizens to vote.
There
is no early voting in Mexico.
Mexico has a voter photo identification card with systems and codes that
make
it very difficult
falsify.
On the day of the election the voter leaves
his ID card with the polling
attendant
and after the person has voted
the card is not returned until the
voters thumb is painted with a permanent ink.
This ink can not be
washed off and remains on the persons thumb for about one week
thus
demonstrating that the person has voted once and can not vote again in a
different polling
place.
This systemhas virtually eliminated voter fraud in Mexico.
Thank you for the opportunity to present this information to you.
Best Regards
Elvira Brandon
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From Lidia Trujillo mailtoIidiasartyahoo.coml
Sent
Saturday March 07 2009 931 PM
To Toni Anne
Dashiell
Subject
Voter Photo
ID
I am in support
of the Voter Photo ID to help achieve safe elections in Texas.
Thank you for listening.
.Lid.i de
la Cruz-Trujillo
21.4-284-4644
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From DeAnna
Dixon
mailtobeecharmer64@yahoo.com
Sent
Saturday March 07 2009 830 PM
To Toni Anne
Dashiell
Subject Voter
Photo
ID
We support
this because
in America there is a saying One vote one Citizen. Why
destroy
our constitution
and stomp on our forefathers.
What
is wrong with people
do
they not care about fraud
is it only the Conservatives
that care about people being elected
by breaking our laws. Follow the Constitution
of the United
States
and stand up for one
vote
for one person.
You dont run red lights rob banks or break other laws without
paying
a debt to society
ie. jail finesetc.
Why
should you get to break our voting
laws
without consequences
Say yes to Voter ID
DeAnna Roberts
TX_00003479
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My
name
is Christina Gunter
I
have
been working with
the
Election
Dept.
for
the
County School
and
City Elections during the
Early Voting
and
the
Election
Day
as
a Clerk for
10
years
and
as
an Election
Judge
for
the
past
10
years
and
have
seen
a lot
of
changes
during
all
these
years.
I believe
the
greatest
fraud
is with the
Politiqueras that
bring
in
the
elderly
to
vote
and
coach
them to
request
their help
and
they
in
turn
tell
them how
and
for whom to
vote.
I wish those
elderly that
do
not
need their
assistance
would
request
our help
the Election
Officials
we
take
an
oath
and
would honor their
request.
Also if
they
were
to bring
a photo
Voters
ID it would eliminate people from bringing
somebody elses voters
certificate
This
is
my greatest
concern.
CHRISTINE
GUNTER
321
HAWK
PHARR
TX
78516
956-787-1338
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SENATORS
IT HAS BEEN MY GREAT PLEASURE TO BE A PRESIDING JUDGE AT
EARLY VOTING AND GENERAL ELECTIONS FOR THE HIDALGO
COUNTY.
I HAVE WORKED
FOR NEARLY 10 YEARS.
IN THAT TIME I
FOUND THAT MANY QUESTIONS COULD NOT BE PROVEN WHEN
VOTERS BRING IN THEIR VOTING CARDS OR OTHER FORMS OF
IDENTIFATION
THAT THEY WERE INDEED THE PERSON ON THE CARD
OR UTILITY BILL. WHEN THE ROLES OF THE COUNTIES VOTERS WHO
HAVE DIED ARE NOT REMOVED IMMEDIATELY VOTER CARDS ARE
SENT TO THE FAMILIES AND SOMETIMES END UP IN THE HANDS OF
PEOPLE WHO TRY TO PASS OFF THIS PERSON.
ALSO MANY PEOPLE ARE TAKEN TO THE POLES BY POLITICAREAS
AND
THEY ARE TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF. THEY ARE INSTRUCTED
TO
VOTE ONLY ONE PERSON OR ONE PARTY. EVEN IF THE PERSON IS NOT
HADICAPED THEY ARE TOLD TO TELL THE WORKERS THAT THEY
ARE.
VOTER PICTURE IDS WOULD
BE THE BEST WAY OF CONDUCTING
ELECTIONS FAIRLY AND HONEST.
I ALSO HOPE THAT THIS OR A
DRIVER LICENSE WOULD BE THE ONLY FORM OF IDENTIFICATION AND
NOT THE OTHER
ID THAT ARE NOW ALLOWED.
I RESPECTFULLY SUBMIT
THIS TO YOU FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION.
I REMAIN
CAROL CROSBY
HIDALGO COUNTY
645 THE GROVE 7
SAN JUAN TX 78589
956-787-1361
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From jdtmeggerOaol.com
mailto jdtmegger@aol.coml
Sent
Sunday
March 08 2009 516 PM
To Toni Anne
Dashiell
Subject
Photo
ID
Toni Ann here
is mine.
Still waiting on some others.
Dotti
Dear
Senators.
I
moved
to
Hidalgo
County in
1996
and
immediately was
asked to work the
elections
as
a
judge.
I
have
done
so ever
since
for Primary
County
State
and National.
I
have
found
several
people
who
have
voted
who
were
not
even
citizens
all
they had to
do was
show
a drivers license
and
they
could
vote.
In
some
cases
they
were
not
even
in the
books
but
we
were
told
to let
them
vote
anyway.
My
husband died three
years
ago
and
I still find
his
name
on
the
books
even
though
I
have
call
and
sent
notes
to the effect
that
his died in 2005
and
he
would
be
old
enough
to vote
by mail.
The
PHOTO
ID is
a major way to
STOP
the fraud
and
make
our elections
honest.
PLEASE
VOTE YES
FOR
PHOTO
ID.
THANK
YOU.
TX_00003482
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From Charles Incerta
mailtocincerta49380att.net
Sent
Sunday
March 08 2009 630
PM
To Toni Anne
Dashiell
Subject
Bill 362
Please vote
for Bill 362.
We are required
to have
a photo
ID on all forms of ID
such as Texas drivers
license
company ID etc.
The most important
card we as
citizens
should
have
is a picture
ID voters
card.
Please protect our voting
system by requiring
a picture
ID.
Thank you
TX_00003483
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From virginia
ellsworth
mailtovellsworthdvm@yahoo.coml
Sent
Friday March 06 2009 116 PM
To Toni Anne
Dashiell
Subject
Senate
Bill 362 testimony
Senate Bill 362
We are required by law to display
valid identification for mundane everyday
items such
as purchasing
over the counter
decongestants
check
cashing/credit
card use driving
a
vehicle pawn shop loans medical care
air travel
and obtaining
automobile
insurance.
It only makes sense
to show valid
identification for the most important task we
can perform as citizens of this country.
The excuse
that the poor may be unable to have identification does not work because you
would then have
to argue that they also need decongestants
access
to credit
transportation
choices
and pawn shop loans.
The citizens of our country are blessed
with the ability
to choose our leaders.
When
we
have
the obvious
voter fraud that continually
happens
election
after
election
something
must be done.
More
voters
should not
be able
to vote
than there are registered
voters
as
was the case
in the Minnesota
election
between
Coleman and Franken.
Registered
voters
should only be registered in one location
at a time and vote once
unlike
the ACORN
fiasco in numerous cities
across our nation.
How
can we expect less
developed countries
to hold valid democratic
elections
when we
barely
can do
it due to our lackadaisical
view of proving your identity and citizenship
at
the time of voting We must protect our very precious
right to vote and be the
stellar
example for budding democracies.
Please
vote in favor of the Voter ID Bill.
Thank you
Virginia EllsworthD.V.M.
TX_00003484
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The Democrats
are saying that Voter
ID would
be difficult
for seniors and minorities.
Well
if my
87 year old mother needs to show TWO PHOTO
IDs
in order to get money back
or to cash
a
check
at the supermarket
where shes known
and has shopped
for years she and others
can
certainly
provide a single
Photo
ID when
she votes.
Texas
needs to show
the nation
that we are
not afraid
to step out there and lead
in this endeavor.
Mexico
I understand
has a photo
ID
incorporated
with the Voter
Registration
Card
and this must be used when one votes.
I
personally cant see how Mexico can
be so much more advanced
that the
U.S.
in this regard.
E.A. Liz Ellis
6985 CR 413
Llano
TX
78643
TX_00003485
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From GARY GAUT
mailtogarygautsbcglobal.netl
Sent
Friday March 06 2009 1016 AM
To Toni Anne
Dashiell
Subject Voter Photo
ID
We strongly
support
requiring
a photo ID in order to vote. We think
that one who is
participating
in the important election
process by voting
should definitely be required
to
prove with a dependable and valid photo ID that he/she
is the person he/she
is
representing
himself/herself
to be. What
better or more simple control
can be used
to
ensure
that a potential
voter is who he or she
represents
himselfor herself to be.
The
arguments AGAINST A CONTROL to ensure
voter validity are very very weak.
A
photo ID control
is most definitely needed.
One
is required
in other
states
in which weve
lived
and voted.
Thanks.
Mr. and Mrs.Gary
E. Gaut
and son Gary E. Gaut
JR.
TX_00003486
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March 9 2009
Dear Senators
I am writing in favor of SB 362 voter to
present proof of identification.
Having a
photo ID to accompany a voter registration or in lieu of one is imperative
in preserving
the sanctity of the ballot box.
I have
been actively
involved with the election process
for
the past thirty
five years
and have been well
aware of voters
having
registration cards that
do not belong
to them. When
voters
with multiple
surnames
are registered
at a single
dwelling
its obvious
that voter harvesting
has
occurred.
In large metropolitan
areas the homeless are easy prey to voter fraud. They are the
many disenfranchised
victims
of the election
process.
A legally registered
voter would have
no problem
presenting
proper identification
to insure the purity of the ballot.
In the era of identity theft
a request
for a photo ID is a
common occurrence
and voting
should not be an exception.
Please support
Senate
Bill
362.
Thank you.
June Rentmeester
Private
Citizen
806 Marquette
Dr.
Richardson
Texas
75081
Dallas
County Signature
Verification Chairman
1988
Dallas
County Ballot Board Judge
1989 - 2007
Early Voting Judge
2007 - 2008
Precinct
Chairman
1978
-
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Jamie Mathis
From
Jessica
Edwards
Jessica@scotjfrost.com
Sent
Monday March 09 2009 1046 PM
To
tad@tdtexas.com
Subject
Senate
Bill 362
My name
is Jessica
Edwards.
I have been honored
to have the ability
to vote
in elections
for over 20 years.
When
I go to catch
a plane
I do not plan
on being given access
without
proof of who
I am - drivers
license
or ID.
When
I went for an annual
physical
last month
I was required
to show
my photo
ID to accompany
my insurance
card as proof of who
I am.
HIPAA laws require
that
I show
my drivers
license
as proof of who
I am if
I ask
to
obtain
my own medical
records.
I can
think
of so many examples of where
I am required
to show
my photo
ID to
accomplish
things.
I have
to show
it to use my credit card and write checks.
Why would
I find
it offensive
to have
to show
ID to have the ability
to vote for something
as important as the leaders
of our country
Writing
a check
when
I cant
find my drivers license
is a problem and
I am sure that
if
I wanted
to vote
illegally
it would
be equally
as problematic
if
I had to show
ID.
In January
my Mother was mugged and 2 young black males were able to
cash
an elderly white womans personal checks.
I question
the person who cashed
the checks
without
questioning
and
I equally question
the person who thinks
it is wrong
to ask for someone
to prove
they are who
they say they
are before they vote.
I do it each
election
without
hesitation
What are their motives
Thank you for your consideration
of my comments.
I do hope that the validity of my comments
will be considered.
Kindest
regards
Jessica
L. Edwards
Practice Manager
Scot J. Frost M.D.
P.A.
Diplomate of the American Board of Orthopedic
Surgery
18220 Tomball Pkwy 330
Houston
TX
77070
Phone - 281 955-0055
Fax - 281 955-7146
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-
but
Vote
was
58380981
Taharah
Tariq
a
u
t
o
m
a
t
i
c
a
l
l
y
counted
and
cannot
be
r
e
t
r
i
e
v
e
d
BB
Rejected
Correctly
-
Voted
i
n
c
o
r
r
e
c
t
l
y
as
a
No
R
e
t
r
i
e
v
a
l
Code
Regular
Voter
-
but
Vote
was
58369125
Tarafder
Debjani
a
u
t
o
m
a
t
i
c
a
l
l
y
counted
and
cannot
be
r
e
t
r
i
e
v
e
d
BB
Rejected
Correctly
-
Voted
i
n
c
o
r
r
e
c
t
l
y
as
a
No
R
e
t
r
i
e
v
a
l
Code
Regular
Voter
-
but
Vote
was
58381286
Thompson
Kurston
a
u
t
o
m
a
t
i
c
a
l
l
y
counted
and
cannot
be
r
e
t
r
i
e
v
e
d
JA_004397
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Category
S
u
b
-
C
a
t
e
g
o
r
y
Cert
Last
Name
First
Name
Middle
Name
BB
Rejected
Correctly
-
Voted
incorrectly
as
a
No
R
e
t
r
i
e
v
a
l
Code
Regular
Voter
-
but
Vote
was
58380817
Walwyn
Ellone
a
u
t
o
m
a
t
i
c
a
l
l
y
counted
and
cannot
be
r
e
t
r
i
e
v
e
d
BB
Rejected
Correctly
-
Voted
i
n
c
o
r
r
e
c
t
l
y
as
a
No
R
e
t
r
i
e
v
a
l
Code
Regular
Voter
-
but
Vote
was
58381146
Williams
Ronnette
a
u
t
o
m
a
t
i
c
a
l
l
y
counted
and
cannot
be
r
e
t
r
i
e
v
e
d
BB
Rejected
I
n
c
o
r
r
e
c
t
l
y
-
X
Voted
Correctly
as
a
1
No
R
e
t
r
i
e
v
a
l
Code
P
r
o
v
i
s
i
o
n
a
l
-
r
e
t
r
i
e
v
a
l
ticket
58378837
Arnold
Canbyce
o
lost
and
vote
was
unable
to
be
i
n
c
l
u
d
e
d
.
BB
Rejected
I
n
c
o
r
r
e
c
t
l
y
-
Voted
Correctly
as
a
No
R
e
t
r
i
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v
a
l
Code
P
r
o
v
i
s
i
o
n
a
l
-
r
e
t
r
i
e
v
a
l
ticket
58382920
B
r
a
n
t
f
o
r
d
Yolanda
lost
and
vote
was
unable
to
be
i
n
c
l
u
d
e
d
.
BB
Rejected
I
n
c
o
r
r
e
c
t
l
y
-
Voted
Correctly
as
a
No
R
e
t
r
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v
a
l
Code
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r
o
v
i
s
i
o
n
a
l
-
r
e
t
r
i
e
v
a
l
ticket
58323243
Diaz
Rosa
lost
and
vote
was
unable
to
be
i
n
c
l
u
d
e
d
.
BB
Rejected
Incorrectly
-
Voted
Correctly
as
a
No
R
e
t
r
i
e
v
a
l
Code
P
r
o
v
i
s
i
o
n
a
l
-
r
e
t
r
i
e
v
a
l
ticket
58383951
Gamez
Michelle
lost
and
vote
was
unable
to
be
i
n
c
l
u
d
e
d
.
Not
a
U.S.
Citizen
52819786
E
i
l
e
r
t
-
O
l
s
e
n
Henning
JA_004398
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Category
S
u
b
-
C
a
t
e
g
o
r
y
Cert
Last
Name
First
Name
Middle
Name
Not
Registered
to
Vote
on
58367608
Adkisson
Colin
Andrew
Election
Day
Not
Registered
to
Vote
on
57844870
Ayoob
Farah
Zeb
Maqsood
Election
Day
Not
Registered
to
Vote
on
57955452
Blythe
Judith
Ann
Election
Day
IX
Not
Registered
to
Vote
on
o
Election
Day
22038061
Brown
Kelvin
Jerome
W
C
Not
Registered
to
Vote
on
Election
Day
56635683
Bui
Kim-Phuong
Vu
Not
Registered
to
Vote
on
57961732
B
y
a
s
-
C
a
l
v
e
r
t
Destiny
Nicole
Election
Day
Not
Registered
to
Vote
on
58383787
Chapman
Ashley
Kress
Election
Day
Not
Registered
to
Vote
on
58279332
Cook
Carolyn
Markey
Election
Day
Not
Registered
to
Vote
on
58383902
Crews
Wade
Barnell
Election
Day
JA_004399
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Category
S
u
b
-
C
a
t
e
g
o
r
y
Cert
Last
Name
First
Name
Middle
Name
Not
Registered
to
Vote
on
58383951
Gamez
Michelle
Lane
Election
Day
Not
Registered
to
Vote
on
37345436
G
u
i
l
l
e
r
m
o
Monroy
Election
Day
Not
Registered
to
Vote
on
51454834
Hintolay
Ahmed
Election
Day
IX
Not
Registered
to
Vote
on
58382805
Islam
Shafi
M
o
Election
Day
OCl
0
Not
Registered
to
Vote
on
58378027
Jack
Schelly
Lewis
Election
Day
Not
Registered
to
Vote
on
58383605
Johnson
Elery
Jean
Election
Day
Not
Registered
to
Vote
on
57854770
Leach
Michael
Travis
Election
Day
Not
Registered
to
Vote
on
Election
Day
58381161
Lipsey
Ricky
Terrell
Not
Registered
to
Vote
on
58001827
Odika
McPeter
Nnamdi
Election
Day
JA_004400
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Category
S
u
b
-
C
a
t
e
g
o
r
y
Cert
Last
Name
First
Name
Middle
Name
Not
Registered
to
Vote
on
58085325
Paulus
Diana
Teresa
Election
Day
Not
Registered
to
Vote
on
57945479
Perich
Masako
Election
Day
Not
Registered
to
Vote
on
58267022
Portillo
Jaime
Election
Day
xIo o
Not
Registered
to
Vote
on
Pugh
Michael
Election
Day
Not
Registered
to
Vote
on
58384348
Sanchez
Amanda
Melissa
Election
Day
Not
Registered
to
Vote
on
56598725
S
c
h
l
o
r
h
o
l
t
z
Michael
W.
Election
Day
Not
Registered
to
Vote
on
38403838
Shafik
Ezzet
Lewis
Election
Day
Not
Registered
to
Vote
on
Election
Day
55313217
Siddiqi
Fatimah
Not
Registered
to
Vote
on
58378944
Williams
Dave
Charles
Election
Day
Not
Registered
to
Vote
on
58384405
Woodlock
Clair
Election
Day
Not
signed
by
voter
40273047
Alvarez
Jose
Aurelio
JA_004401
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Category
S
u
b
-
C
a
t
e
g
o
r
y
Cert
Last
Name
First
Name
Middle
Name
Not
signed
by
voter
51937803
Augustine
Ellen
Hu
Not
signed
by
voter
57432502
Guillory
Monica
Leight
Not
signed
by
voter
35290568
Ibe
Leticia
Not
signed
by
voter
56441025
Ivanhoe
Sagastume
Not
signed
by
voter
56813900
Malani
Pankaj
K
IX
Not
signed
by
voter
57350860
Nichols
Susan
Marita
0 00
Not
signed
by
voter
56226913
Oha
Jr.
Anthony
U
co
Not
signed
by
voter
50400779
Pierce
Ramona
S
u
m
m
e
r
l
i
n
Registered
in
HD149.
Woods
Moved
outside
of
Harris
40431488
PAULA
KAYE
County
HUBBARD
Registered
in
HD149.
Moved
outside
of
Harris
32069726
AKUCHIE
HENRY
ANAYO
County
Registered
in
HD149.
Moved
outside
of
Harris
39567185
ALDACO
CONSUELO
County
Registered
in
HD149.
Moved
outside
of
Hams
38551347
ALI
AKBAR
Q
County
Registered
in
HD149.
O
L
O
R
U
N
L
A
Y
Moved
outside
of
Harris
40224370
A
M
O
K
O
M
O
W
O
MOJISOLA
O
County
Registered
in
HD149.
Moved
outside
of
Harris
30693972
ANDERSON
CLAUDINA
T
County
JA_004402
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Category
S
u
b
-
C
a
t
e
g
o
r
y
Cert
Last
Name
First
Name
Middle
Name
Registered
in
HD149.
Moved
outside
of
Harris
35482629
ANDERSON
SCOTT
ERVIN
County
Registered
in
HD149.
Moved
outside
of
Hams
37310067
ARGUETA
RAUL
ANTONIO
County
Registered
in
HD149.
Moved
outside
of
Harris
38609004
ATCHISON
MICHAEL
B
County
xI
Registered
in
HD149.
Moved
outside
of
Harris
50285519
AUSTIN
ANNIETESS
V
County
Registered
in
HD149.
Moved
outside
of
Harris
51361392
AUSTIN
NEIL
GABRIEL
County
Registered
in
HD149.
Moved
outside
of
Harris
32190563
BAILEY
ALPHEUS
F
I
T
Z
G
E
R
A
L
D
County
Registered
in
HD149.
Moved
outside
of
Harris
52221967
BALBA
BERT
MENDOZA
County
Registered
in
HD149.
Moved
outside
of
Harris
18599571
B
A
L
B
A
L
O
Z
A
MARIA
CARLOTA
County
Registered
in
HD149.
Moved
outside
of
Harris
52283603
BARRON
ADA
C
County
Registered
in
HD149.
Moved
outside
of
Harris
42053504
BENOIT
DAVID
R
County
JA_004403
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Category
S
u
b
-
C
a
t
e
g
o
r
y
Cert
Last
Name
First
Name
Middle
Name
Registered
in
HD149.
Moved
outside
of
Harris
40959926
B
R
O
W
N
DARCEY
N
County
Registered
in
HD149.
Moved
outside
of
Hams
BURCH
RALPH
BARRY
County
Registered
in
HD149.
Moved
outside
of
Harris
BUTT
JAMSMINE
ANNETTE
County
IX
Registered
in
HD149.
o
Moved
outside
of
Harris
BUTT
KEVIN
L
0
County
w o
Registered
in
HD149.
Moved
outside
of
Harris
18202580
CARVAJAL
NUBIA
ANDREA
County
Registered
in
HD149.
Moved
outside
of
Harris
57889941
CHANEY
SEMETRIU
A
County
Registered
in
HD149.
Moved
outside
of
Hams
50332998
CHANEY
THERESA
ANN
County
Registered
in
HD149.
Moved
outside
of
Harris
CHOU
DORIS
C
H
E
N
G
-
S
H
U
County
Registered
in
HD149.
Moved
outside
of
Harris
C
H
R
I
S
T
M
A
N
KYLE
ARTHUR
County
Registered
in
HD149.
Moved
outside
of
Harris
37047008
CLARK
TIFFANY
LYNN
County
JA_004404
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Category
S
u
b
-
C
a
t
e
g
o
r
y
Cert
Last
Name
First
Name
Middle
Name
Registered
in
HD149.
Moved
outside
of
Harris
28031938
COLEMAN
DEBRA
HAMILTON
County
Registered
in
HD149.
Moved
outside
of
Harris
40687014
CONNOR
JAMES
THEODORE
County
Registered
in
HD149.
Moved
outside
of
Harris
CORTS
FRANK
E
D
W
A
R
D
County
Registered
in
HD149.
IXo
Moved
outside
of
Harris
40828378
CUBILLAS
PACIENTE
M
O
County
OW cn 0
Registered
in
HD149.
Moved
outside
of
Harris
38087110
DANG
KEVIN
H
County
Registered
in
HD149.
Moved
outside
of
Harris
35288042
DAVIS
DEONA
MONIQUE
County
Registered
in
HD149.
Moved
outside
of
Harris
41608928
DAY
COLLIN
GLENN
County
Registered
in
HD149.
Moved
outside
of
Harris
39953484
DENNIS
TIFFANY
JACKSON
County
Registered
in
HD149.
Moved
outside
of
Harris
33035270
DUNN
THOMAS
REUBEN
County
Registered
in
HD149.
Moved
outside
of
Hams
33978693
EAGLETON
MYIA
C
H
R
I
S
T
I
N
E
Coun
JA_004405
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