‘Should be nationwide!’ Trump praises ruling that Texas CAN enforce law requiring voter ID
‘We have made clear that states have a legitimate interest in combating voter fraud’
President Donald Trump is praising an appeals court ruling that now has confirmed that Texas is allowed to enforce a law requiring voter ID.
“THIS IS GREAT NEWS!!! Should be Nationwide!!!,” he said.
The decision from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, according to a report at the Gateway Pundit, overturns a lower court’s block on the application of the law intended to recognize and address possible security failures in mail-in ballots.
The ruling said, “We have no difficulty concluding that this ID number requirement fully complies with a provision of federal law known by the parties as the materiality provision of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
“The ID number requirement is obviously designed to confirm that each mail-in ballot voter is precisely who he claims he is. And that is plainly ‘material’ to ‘determining whether such individual is qualified under State law to vote.’ The district court reached the opposite conclusion. So we reverse and render judgment for Defendants.”
The judges on the panel were James Ho, Don Willett and Patrick Higginbotham.
The state law invalidates mail-in ballots submitted without a voter’s state identification number or partial Social Security number.
According to Fox News, the court’s “blunt” assessment that, “Mail-in ballots are not secure.”
“We have made clear that states have a legitimate interest in combating voter fraud, and thus enjoy ‘considerable discretion in deciding what is an adequate level of effectiveness to serve [their] important interests in voter integrity,'” Ho wrote in the opinion.
Recent rulings also have confirmed that ballots must arrive by Election Day to be counted, which can pose a problem for leftist states that have declared Election Weeks or even Election Months, claiming the right to count ballots arriving long after the deadline, despite the Constitution’s reference to Election Day.
