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Federal court blocks Texas voter ID law

The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. ruled Thursday (PDF) that a controversial voter ID law in Texas would disenfranchise poor people and blocked the state from implementing it, where the law’s likely to stay unless the Supreme Court overturns the decision. Attorneys for the Department of Justice argued…

Texas attorney general exposes millions of voters’ Social Security numbers

The office of Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott mistakenly gave attorneys access to millions of Social Security numbers in a case against the state’s voter ID law, officials admitted Wednesday. The numbers were included with a voter database the state was ordered to turn over to plaintiff attorneys. Abbott’s office…