claim: "texas has 600,000 registered voters who don’t have the kind of photo id needed to vote."
author: tom "smitty" smith
evidence_1: sep 3, 2016 ... “texas,” smith wrote, “has 600,000 registered voters who don't have the kind of  photo id needed to vote.” under the texas law, a registered ...
evidence_2: may 23, 2016 ... after texas passed a new voter-id law, officials told settles he had to ... to get a  photo id and that the requirement is needed to combat voter fraud. ... a federal  court in texas found that 608,470 registered voters don't have the ...
evidence_3: mar 3, 2016 ... half a million registered texas voters lack id now required to vote, but just 653 ...  in a nation where everybody has photo id, it shouldn't. ... that 500,000 to 600,000  registered voters don't have id, and that federal courts have ruled ... but it wasn't  kind enough to actually educate its local election supervisors, ...
evidence_4: nov 11, 2014 ... around 600,000 registered texas voters don't have one of the limited ... efforts to  do that with regard to other id laws have produced a murky picture. ... court just  days before early voting began — had a significant impact.
evidence_5: now is not the time to get rid of america's most time-honored voting rights  protection ... section 5 ensures state and local governments with a history of  voting discrimination don't implement ... it blocked a discriminatory photo id  requirement in texas, which required a kind of id more than 600,000 eligible  voters did not have.