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New Mexico Gets Bain'd: Romney Took $2.5M in Tax Dollars and 1,000 Jobs From New Mexicans in 2000s

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lawhawk7/19/2012 7:39:19 am PDT

Brennan Center for Justice - voter ID laws disenfranchise minorities:

Eligible voters in 10 states including Texas do not have easy access to free IDs required by new restrictive voting laws and minorities would more likely to be disenfranchised in the process, according to a new study released Wednesday.

Republicans who support new voter ID laws dismissed as partisan the study by the Brennan Center for Justice, which has joined legal efforts to block the new regulations, as politically motivated.

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott and other state Republican officials insist that new laws like the voter ID law requiring a photograph does not disenfranchise voters.

But the study found that eligible voters who would need the free identification cards required by the new laws were less likely to have access to a vehicle and live further away from offices where the IDs are issued.

“Unfortunately, these free IDs are not equally accessible to all voters,” the report said.