NAACP, Others Join Justice Dept. Suit Against Texas ID Law

AUSTIN -- The Mexican American Legislative Caucus and the Texas NAACP filed a lawsuit on Sept. 17 to overturn the state's Voter ID law, joining the Justice Department in fighting the law. The two groups filed their petition with a federal court in Corpus Christi, the same court where other civil rights groups and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder are fighting the requirement that voters must show a government-issued photo ID card to cast a ballot.

2020-05-03T23:37:01+00:00September 20th, 2013|In the Courts, News, Voter ID|
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ACRU Puts Texas Counties on Notice

WASHINGTON D.C. -- The has put numerous Texas counties on notice via letters that they are violating Section 8 of the National Voter Registration ("Motor Voter") Act. The counties have more registered voters than voting age-eligible residents, according to official data from the U.S. Census and state voter registration offices.

2020-05-03T23:38:09+00:00September 17th, 2013|News, Press Releases, Voter ID|
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Dem Chairwoman Claims Voter ‘Suppression’ Led to Recall Defeat of Colorado Legislators

Democratic National chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz charged Wednesday that "voter suppression" led to the defeat of two prominent Democratic lawmakers in Colorado, including the state Senate president. "The recall elections in Colorado were defined by the vast array of obstacles that special interests threw in the way of voters for the purpose of reversing the will of the legislature and the people. This was voter suppression, pure and simple," Wasserman Schultz said in a statement.

2020-05-03T23:37:01+00:00September 11th, 2013|News, Voter ID|
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Walthall County Agrees to Clear Inflated Voter Roll

JACKSON (AP) -- South Mississippi's Walthall County has agreed to purge the names of ineligible voters from its voter registration roll, including those of any dead people and disenfranchised felons whose names appear. The agreement was filed Wednesday in a consent order in U.S. District Court in Hattiesburg. The sued two south Mississippi counties, Walthall and Jefferson Davis, in April. The lawsuits said the counties both had more registered voters than residents who were at least 18, the minimum voting age.

2020-05-03T23:37:02+00:00September 5th, 2013|In the Courts, News, Voter ID|
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ACRU Wins Historic Consent Decree for Mississippi County to Clean Up Voter Rolls

HATTIESBURG, MS -- Officials in Walthall County, Mississippi, were sued in April by the (ACRU) under the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (commonly called "Motor Voter") for having more registered voters than voting-age-eligible residents. On Wednesday, the parties settled the case. The United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi entered a final Walthall_County_Consent_Decree.pdf that requires the defendants to clean up the county's voter rolls.

2020-05-03T23:37:02+00:00September 5th, 2013|ACRU Litigation News, In the Courts, News, Press Releases, Voter ID|
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