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Texas Voter ID Law Blocked by U.S. Justice Department as Biased

(Seth Stern/Washington Post-Bloomberg) The Obama administration blocked Texas’s new law requiring voters to show government-issued photo identification at the polls, escalating a partisan dispute over voting restrictions. The U.S. Justice Department is using its power under the Voting Rights Act to halt the Texas law, saying in a letter to the state today that the …

Texas Voter ID Law Blocked by U.S. Justice Department as Biased”