For almost fifty years, the electoral rules of Texas and seven other states have been chained to the federal government’s whim, particularly the Democrat Party’s whim, since the Democrat Party is the political party of a clear majority of the federal bureaucrats who make the rules.
The chains came off the other day with a Scotus ruling and the Democrats immediately cried foul, along with the usual race mongers who are still fighting Jim Crow decades after its wings came off, as they should have, and did. It’s just politically convenient for the Democrat Party to keep up the fiction that black and other minority rights are still at risk unless the feds control the rules. Cobb has a nice summary:
“Those states, Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia have essentially been on probation for fifty years. Now they can change their laws without special oversight from the Federal Government.
“It probably comes as no surprise that these are all ‘red’ states that voted for Romney in 2012. Well, Virginia was a ‘blue’ state. And similarly comes as no surprise that these [were] all slave states. No, wait, Alaska wasn’t a slave state, neither was Arizona. In fact, no black man was ever even lynched in Arizona. Hmm. Well let’s not get too specific in categorizing them – they were all highlighted as the most racist states hostile to blacks. But Arkansas and Massachussetts were not included. And wasn’t it Florida that was doing the voter disenfranchisement?
“If you see the inconsistency here, then you should understand the simple reason I don’t find a particularly foul odor emanating from the Supreme Court while plenty of folks I see are turning up their noses today.”
Texas Attorney General Gregg Abbott celebrated the decision by immediately imposing the voter i.d. requirement passed by the state legislature but overruled by the feds’ “justice” department. Why, yes, the very same Democrat “justice” department that’s been wiretapping the news media.
The Democrat Party is opposed to voter i.d., supposedly because it discriminates against minorities who are too lazy or too stupid to get a photo i.d. although a photo i.d. is required to get you into any federal building anywhere. And now Texas will issue free ones for the hopeless—if they can prove residency with a recent electric bill.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
We are going to get our own “biometric” IDs project started soon here.
I guess I don’t care all that much by now. Let our kids to figure out whether to care or not.
Everybody in the U.S. with a driver’s license has a photo i.d., and many of them come with fingerprints. The biometric stuff is logical. Privacy has been dead for a long time, people (especially the pols who know better) just don’t like to admit it.