Texas Democrats try to suppress voter ID

Dallas Morning News:

House members learned the hard way Tuesday that red ties and butterflies may be free, but killing a voter ID bill is expensive.

A grueling, all-day talkathon by Democrats wandered from a monarch butterfly watch program at state parks to the size of Amarillo's convention center. There were frequent quips about the red ties most in the chamber – male and female – were wearing.

Jacksonville Democratic Rep. Chuck Hopson handed them out. Red ties are his sartorial trademark and the gifts were "an expression of solidarity with all the members," a Hopson aide explained.

But as Day Five dawned on Democrats' attempt to talk to death a bill to force voters to present more identification at the polls, goofiness and good feelings quickly dissipated.

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House GOP caucus leader Larry Taylor of Friendswood said Democrats now have proved they can't work with either Straus or his more controlling predecessor, former Speaker Tom Craddick, R-Midland.

Taylor said neither Straus nor Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, the Senate's presiding officer, could stave off a groundswell of support for voter ID requirements.

"Statewide, across party lines, across races, 70 percent of the people support having a photo ID at the polling place," Taylor said. "They would like to have us do that to protect the integrity of elections."

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The Democrat argument against the bill is at best circular and at worst incoherent. If they were really concerned about IDs being a problem they could secure them at the same time they register people to vote. It just is not that hard to get a valid ID. But, it would inhibit groups like ACORN that ahve become notorious for fraudulent registrations.

Perhaps that is what all this stalling is about. Democrats may be running a protection racket for ACORN's abuse of the law.

If Taylor is right, and I suspect he is, 70 percent of voters will have a reason to vote against Democrats next year.

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