It is nice to see that there is at least one daily newspaper in Texas that has the right idea on Voter ID:
Popularity: 26% [?]

Popularity: 26% [?]

One of the worst editorials we’ve seen lauding the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in the Crawford case relating to Voter Identification comes from none other than the Texarkana Sun, in far North East Texas. Check out some of what the Sun had to say earlier this week:
Popularity: 35% [?]

Popularity: 35% [?]

Rarely do we get mad enough to use our Photoshop skills, but today was one of those days. Here is our salute to Reps. Berman, Riddle, Bohac and Brown (click on the image for a larger version):

Popularity: 30% [?]

Popularity: 30% [?]

Remember back in 2006 and 2007 when Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott was crowing about a bunch of “voter fraud” indictments in Hidalgo and Starr Counties?
It appears, now that the majority of those cases have been dismissed, that the AG has little or nothing to crow about:
Criminal charges against two politiqueras accused of tampering with [...]

Popularity: 41% [?]

Last night, while half-listening to ABC News’ Nightline from the next room, I heard the familiar and unmistakable voice of Lt. Governor David Dewhurst come on the television talking about Voter ID. Evidently, Dewhurst is running a television commercial urging Texans to support voter identification laws.
Among other things (I didn’t have a pen handy [...]

Popularity: 27% [?]

In Crawford v. Marion County Board of Elections, the landmark Voter ID case presently before the U.S. Supreme Court, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has taken the lead for the right wing and, along with eight other state attorneys general, filed a brief in support of an Indiana Voter ID law.
The problem is that the [...]

Popularity: 49% [?]

The Statesman had an interesting article about the statewide voter database, the Texas Election Administration Management System, which is causing delays in processing voter registration applications:

Popularity: 4% [?]

Popularity: 4% [?]

On a party-line 4-3 vote, the House Committee on Elections voted to send two disasterous Voter ID bills to the full house moments ago.
Republican Reps. Leo Berman (Chair), Dwayne Bohac (vice chair), Kirk England and Charlie Howard cast the votes to send the bills to the floor while Reps. Lon Burnam, Joe Farias and Rafael [...]

Popularity: 5% [?]