Texas Republicans are so distrustful of voters, that they have withdrawn the franchise from many long time Texas voters with their cumbersome new law that makes voting in Texas into a bureaucratic nightmare.
By Dylan McGuinness
Outrage over Texas’ voter ID law was reignited in San Antonio on Thursday after the city’s 97-year-old former mayor was turned away from a polling site for lack of identification.
Lila Cockrell was one of more than 12,000 people who flocked to the polls Wednesday to vote in San Antonio’s mayoral runoffs, but she didn’t get to cast a ballot when she couldn’t present an authorized form of ID.
“I’m 97, I don’t drive anymore,” said Cockrell, San Antonio’s first female mayor. “I haven’t been on a cruise or anything in years.”
This news comes on the heels of the Texas Secretary of State David Whitley’s resignation for conducting a purge of Hispanic voters.