2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Stop 3/5ing the vote of the AA community. [View all]Gothmog
(145,046 posts)It is time to dust my button machine off again.
I am forced to live in the real world and so I have to deal with real attacks. I had to go yell at the county election administrator because an election judge gave my son in law grief for using one of the approved forms of voter ids. I hate to break it to you but the Texas voter id law probably had a stronger negative impact on Sanders than Clinton in that older voters either had ids or could vote by mail. The TDP push vote by mail and the numbers were amazing compared to prior years. To the extent that younger voters lack the required id, Sanders may have been hurt more than Clinton in Texas.
I am irked that the 5th Circuit has not ruled on this and the Texas Democratic Party is doing everything that it can to kill this law. If you want to point fingers for Sanders results in Texas read this http://www.texasobserver.org/election-identification-certificates-voter-id/ This is the world I live in and so my time is taken up dealing with these issues (I devoted a ton of time in 2014 helping on voter id issues).