By: Jinsky Jean-Pois

Jinsky Jean-Pois — Sun, 20 May 2012 05:37:37 +0000

The State of Texas is entitled to a declaratory judgment for preclearence coveted by litigation from the three-judge District Court panel in the District of Columbia for SB 14 because the law is permissible and conforms to the applicable legal standards prescribed by Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. The newly approved strict TX voter-ID law signed by Governor Rick Perry replicates the IN strict voter-ID law that Governor Mitch Daniels signed and was rendered constitutional against litigation for a facial challenge filed by William Crawford, which was adjudicated in the Crawford versus Marion County Election Board case by the United States Supreme Court. The Texas Legislature could prospectively pass proof-of-citizenship legislation to replicate statutes in AZ, GA, KS, and TN. Other legislatures of the several states with voter-ID laws could adopt proposed proof-of-citizenship legislation. GA has a computer citizenship verification system approved by the Obama DOJ. GA is entitled to preclearence for the new proof-of-citizenship requirement for first-time voter registrants. FL is expected to use Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) system to assess the 180,000 potential non-citizens. FL county election bureaus have submitted voter advisory status notices to allow registered voters to submit satisfactory evidence of citizenship within 30 days or be purged from the voter registry. If the GOP wins state legislative veto-proof majorities and/or state governorships on November 6th, 2012, then a newly-elected Republican governor would approve the duly transmitted voter-ID legislation by gubernatorial approval with his/her signature in order to become law or otherwise the veto-proof Republican state legislature (simple majority, three-fifths or two-thirds majority) would affirmatively vote to reverse the Democratic gubernatorial veto successfully not withstanding the specified objections to the duly transmitted voter-ID legislation in order to become law. Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, and North Carolina are four of the five states that will have gubernatorial elections on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November in the 2012 general election. Legislatures in those four states are controlled by the GOP, which approved strict voter-ID legislation, which incurred Democratic gubernatorial vetoes. Those four states could have a GOP governor and/or a veto-proof GOP legislature. Minnesota is a state with a GOP legislature whose voter-ID legislation incurred the Democratic gubernatorial veto. The states of Minnesota and Missouri will have a voter-ID ballot question as a proposed state constitutional amendment.

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