Wendy Davis, the Texas state senator who will likely run for Governor, is an opponent of voter ID and eager to call her own state racist and discriminatory. According to this article, she was actually a witness against the law and testified that support for the law in Texas was racially motivated. Politically speaking, an overwhelming 73% of Texan Independent voters support voter ID.
State Sen. Wendy Davis,
D-Fort Worth, testified that her amendments to make the bill more
similar to a voter ID law implemented in Indiana, which has been upheld
by the Supreme Court, were dismissed outright. Davis said Texas Democrats were steamrolled. “The voter ID bill, we all believed, was a racially motivated bill,” she said.