Election Rules: Washington-Based Campaign and Republican-Controlled Legislature

election rules: It's a dramatic break from the agency under former president Barack Obama, which spent years arguing that the 2011 voter ID law that Texas' Republican-controlled Legislature passed was intended to disenfranchise poor and minority voters, according to Toronto Star. It's a complete 180, said Danielle Lang of the Washington-based Campaign Legal Center. Pablo Martinez Monsivais / The Associated Press By David Saleh Rauf The Associated Press Mon., Feb. 27, 2017 AUSTIN, TEXAS The U.S. Justice Department said Monday it is abandoning its long-standing opposition to a key aspect of Texas' toughest-in-the-nation voter ID law, costing voting rights groups their most important ally and possibly encouraging other conservative states to toughen their own election rules with U.S. President Donald Trump in charge. We can't make heads or tails of any factual reason for the change. Read the latest news on U.S. President Donald Trump The law requires voters to show one of seven forms of state-approved photo identification gun permits are acceptable but college IDs are not. There has been no new evidence that's come to light. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.