• Stricter Voter ID And Other Voting Laws Rolled Back In Slew Of Court Decisions
  • An election official checks a voter’s photo identification at an early voting polling site in Austin, Texas.
  • But even the judges who wrote key opinions upholding the law in the case have since expressed concerns about how voter ID laws work out in practice.
  • When they were first proposed, voter ID laws sounded reasonable to lots of people, including the Supreme Court.
  • Courts have fairly consistently been striking down those restrictions, culminating in some big wins for civil rights forces in late July and early August.

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