A Win for Election Integrity: 5th Circuit Allows for Compulsory Voter Identity in Voter Registration

It’s elemental – vote identity but the Democrats are fighting with blood to keep elections rigged. This is a major setback for them.

Reversing a 2023 district court ruling. Bloomberg: Texas can make people applying to vote by mail provide identification numbers that must match the state’s data, the Fifth Circuit said Monday. A three-judge panel ruled against a challenge from the Biden administration and voting rights groups in holding that Texas’ system for rooting out potential fraud is “obviously designed to confirm that every mail-in voter is indeed who he claims he is.” The decision from Judge James Ho reverses a November 2023 district court ruling that struck down the number match provision, saying the system isn’t material in determining voter eligibility. The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit already disagreed with the lower court before Monday, pausing the injunction in December 2023 (Bloomberg). From the decision: The ID number requirement is obviously designed to confirm that each mail-in ballot voter is precisely who he claims he is. And that is plainly “material” to “determining whether such individual is qualified under State law to vote.” Id. The district court reached the opposite conclusion. So we reverse and render judgment for Defendants. I. To vote in Texas, one must satisfy various eligibility requirements, including age, citizenship, residency, and mental fitness….One must also be registered to vote. See id. The voter registration application asks each applicant to affirm, under penalty of perjury, that they are eligible to vote (USCourts).