Federal court orders Abbott to stop enforcing an election law (TX)

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Nov. 1, 2006, 1:10PM
Federal court orders Abbott to stop enforcing an election law


By POLLY ROSS HUGHES

AUSTIN — A federal court has ordered Republican Attorney General Greg Abbott to stop enforcing a change in Texas election law that Democrats say has led to intimidation of minorities, seniors and disabled voters.

The provision, the object of a federal voting rights lawsuit against Abbott and Secretary of State Roger Williams, makes it a crime to mail or possess another person's sealed ballot.

Democrats complain that Abbott's agents have even peeped into a woman's bathroom window while investigating mail-in ballots.

"This injunction will stop Abbott's aggressive prosecution of well-meaning citizens, who are simply helping their neighbors vote, and allow seniors and disabled individuals to cast their vote in the upcoming election without fear of being arrested," Texas Democratic Party Chair Boyd Richie said today.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4302959.html

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1. Where does vote suppression stop?

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2. Not here in TX, that's fersure.