Texas Voter ID Law Back in Play for Midterm Election

*The appeals court says the repeal will cause confusion, that there’s not enough time to inform voters about the change before the start of early voting. But isn’t is as easy as  telling folks they don’t need ID? VL

By Maya Rhodan, TIME

Texas’s controversial voter identification law is back in play for the upcoming midterm elections, after an appeals court ruled to let it stand.

The strict photo identification law requires voters to present one of 7 specific forms of ID at the polling place. Student IDs are not included among the acceptable forms of identification. Critics of the law say it risks disenfranchising hundreds of thousands of registered voters, many of whom are people of color.

But the Fifth Circuit Court found that the risk of confusion at the polls is too great to change voting procedures with less than a week to go before early voting begins on Oct. 20.

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