Monthly Archives: September 2013

“A Polling Place of Their Own”

The New York Times covers how True the Vote helped get a polling place at Prairie View A and M.

“Students at Prairie View A&M University, the state’s oldest historically black public college, have fought for decades to persuade Waller County to allow a polling place on the campus. Now an unlikely coalition has succeeded, by cobbling together a compromise in time for the November election.”

Observer Reports “again point to failure” in second Hattiesburg mayoral election


Is another election challenge in the offing?

From Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann’s statement regarding Hattiesburg Municipal Election:


“Unfortunately, our initial Agency Observer Reports again point to failure to follow the training provided after the polls were closed.  These issues include failure to properly seal the ballot box and failure to properly mark absentee ballots.  Further, there has also been reported a case of voter impersonation for Hattiesburg Municipal voter Marvin Allen.  We are compiling all Observer Reports and will release those to the Election Commission and the public.”


Wendy Davis, potential candidate for Governor, testified in court against State of Texas saying “Voter ID was racially motivated”

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.