Voter Id Law Pros And Cons

“In November of 2011, the Texas Legislature passed Senate Bill 14, creating a new requirement for voters to show photo identification while voting in person. While pending review within the judicial system, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its opinion in Shelby County v. Holder, which effectively ended all pending litigation. As a result, voters are now required to present an approved form of photo identification in order to vote in all Texas Elections.” (1) When a voter arrives at a polling location, the voter will be asked to present one of the seven acceptable forms of photo ID. Then, the voter will be put through a secondary precaution which is the official list of registered voters also know as the, “OLRV”. This secondary procedure thus entails that the voter that presents the picture identification matches the name that has already been registered to vote. (1) Even though the government is trying to regulate the process in which Texans vote, I do not believe that this method of requiring an ID is the best option for all citizens because of different circumstances that could prohibit or make it increasingly more difficult for some citizens to vote due to their inability to gain the proper documentation.

I believe that this law is unconstitutional, because it violates the Voting

When the voter ID law was not yet put into play, the number of registered voters in Texas in 2011 was estimated to 12,841,808. After the law had been put into effect in 2013, there were 13,445,285 eligible voters by the November elections. (4) But, in a 2014 congressional election there was a slim decrease. Fifteen out of seventeen states decreased in Voting-Eligible Population (VEP) turnout between the years 2010 and 2014. A potential reason for the decrease between the recorded years is that some citizens are incapable of meeting up to the states’