It got replaced way back when Big Electric decided to go nuke. In spite of all evidence to the contrary (cough*Chernobyl*cough) it's still the regulatory standard.
a) technically, the 5th Circuit did find that the law had "discriminatory affect" and amounted to "a poll tax" in August and they gave specific parameters for what could be used in the 2016 election. https://www.texastribune.or... there are several bills that are trying to enact the requirements from the 5th Circuit...or most of them. they're leaving a few key things out for REASONS. anyway, here's the write up I did on the hearing where Keith Ingram explains how it works (towards the bottom): https://belltheblindtiger.w...
b) what TX calls "emergency items" are rarely ever emergencies and they're not passed with people in the Pink Dome thinking that they are emergencies. "emergency items" are items that the governor names as priorities in the State of the State speech which they're allowed to vote out of the houses they were filed in before the bill filing deadline. they never do, but it's the thought that counts. do they use emergency item protocol on actual emergencies? sure! last session they used it to fix what was called OVSOM and is now called TCCO and that's about as far as I'm going to go with that. they also used them to pass emergency funding for CPS last fall.
they struck down Section 4 which is what the original case was tried under. they are trying it under Section 2 which is something no one's really done before.
So you can't use the past practice of discriminatory voting measures to show current intent to discriminate even though the current statute is a cut and paste of the discriminatory law.
Probably makes sense on some as yet undiscovered universe but not on earth.
Think they just want the tax payer to foot the bill
*Hands Shovel*Nope!
So called judge.
Those are called security guards.
That's not a cat at peace.
That's just stupid.
When it was going through the legislature, we were calling it the EZ Voter Bill. As in, if your name ends in -ez, you don't get to vote.
It got replaced way back when Big Electric decided to go nuke. In spite of all evidence to the contrary (cough*Chernobyl*cough) it's still the regulatory standard.
I have a system that summons a robot hand out of the broom closet and flips the switch for me. The robot hand is named "Rosie" for multiple reasons.
Something something human centipede agreement.
a) technically, the 5th Circuit did find that the law had "discriminatory affect" and amounted to "a poll tax" in August and they gave specific parameters for what could be used in the 2016 election. https://www.texastribune.or... there are several bills that are trying to enact the requirements from the 5th Circuit...or most of them. they're leaving a few key things out for REASONS. anyway, here's the write up I did on the hearing where Keith Ingram explains how it works (towards the bottom): https://belltheblindtiger.w...
b) what TX calls "emergency items" are rarely ever emergencies and they're not passed with people in the Pink Dome thinking that they are emergencies. "emergency items" are items that the governor names as priorities in the State of the State speech which they're allowed to vote out of the houses they were filed in before the bill filing deadline. they never do, but it's the thought that counts. do they use emergency item protocol on actual emergencies? sure! last session they used it to fix what was called OVSOM and is now called TCCO and that's about as far as I'm going to go with that. they also used them to pass emergency funding for CPS last fall.
finally has a court date! Sept. 12:https://www.texastribune.or...
also too, the Steve Stockman Trial starts on June 5: https://www.texastribune.or...
they struck down Section 4 which is what the original case was tried under. they are trying it under Section 2 which is something no one's really done before.
we could have gone to Yeakel.
you want we should go to Judge Yeakel?
So you can't use the past practice of discriminatory voting measures to show current intent to discriminate even though the current statute is a cut and paste of the discriminatory law.
Probably makes sense on some as yet undiscovered universe but not on earth.