I just got back from our hearing in the Texas House on voter fraud/voter photo ID for Texas. The Texas Legislature is not in session. This was an interim hearing but focused on forcing this contentious voter suppression tactic on Texas once again. We've managed to beat photo ID in Texas in two successive legislative sessions but the republicans are hell bent on getting it passed here.
Anyway it was a great hearing where we came out with guns blazing. A whole line of top notch experts lined up on our side. They were amazing. Our hearing went on for about nine hours. It was streamed. If you get a chance and want to watch some sausage making watch a bit of it. I recommend you listen to the experts. They come in at 3:25 into the hearing.
This was the panel of experts:
David Becker, Senior Litigation Counsel, People for the American Way
Tova Wang, Democracy Fellow, The Century Foundation
Justin Levitt, Counsel, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law
Dr. Toby Moore, Project Manager, Center for Democracy and Election Management, American University
You can watch the
archive of the fireworks here.
Don't mess with Texas - ya here!
Sonia