Tom Perez, the head of the Texas Civil Rights Division, sent a whopping 6-page letter to the Texas Director of Elections stating, “Texas has not ‘sustained its burden’ under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act to show that the new law will not have a discriminatory effect on minority voters.”

According to those who track such things, about 11% of Hispanics in Texas don’t have a valid photo ID, and a law which would require a valid photo ID to vote would be racist.

This is not a great deal different than the reason given for blocking the new South Carolina voter ID law. In South Carolina, it seems that about 20% of black people don’t have a valid photo ID.

Here are a couple of questions which need to be asked:

1)      If 80% to 89% of these folks CAN obtain a valid photo ID, and apparently HAVE…why then can’t the remaining 11% to 20% get THEIR hands on one?

2)      What makes such a law racist?

Let’s take the last question first.

This law, like all the rest which the DOJ claims to be racist, requires ALL who want to vote to present a valid photo ID. That means…white folks, black folks, brown folks…EVERYBODY, regardless of skin color, would have to present a valid photo ID to vote. How is THAT racist? If the law said ONLY Hispanics needed the photo ID or ONLY white people with a photo ID would be allowed to vote…Okay…Racist; but requiring EVERYBODY to have a photo ID is…FAIR.

There are some in Texas who claim that a portion of that 11% of Hispanics who do NOT currently have a valid photo ID live 175 miles (round trip) from where they could obtain such an ID and therefore, it’s a hardship for them to get one.

EL TORO CRAPO!!!

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