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Originally Posted by Kevin
Do you think to be constitutional, Texas must provide free state-issued IDs when a number of others work and when the cost isn't great enough in any cased to really put anyone out?
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In the specific instance of Texas, I think the alternative use of freely-available ID methods circumvents the poll tax issue.
I also think it makes the entire law superfluous (at best), at least with regard to its stated intent, because the use of those specific documents as freely-available ID makes it essentially impossible that the law would actually prevent any significant amount of fraud.
The best-case scenario is, essentially, another garbage law cluttering the books. How "small-government" of us.
The worse, of course, is semi-targeted barriers to voting.
The law is seemingly either unnecessary or unconstitutional, depending on intent and implementation.