since then of the 1.4 million voter who is are eligible but don t have an i.d. of the 1.4 million who have gotten the i.d. so they can vote is 50. that according to state of texas is the count ads of this evening. we called them and asked. 50 people out of 1.4 million. you want to do the math on what percentage of the problem is solved? there are two zeros after the decimal point before you get to start putting together other integers. tenths, hundredths, thousandths of a percent. but the reason they were able to change the law about voting is because of the united states supreme court. when the supreme court this summer gutted the voting rights act, texas was thereby freed of the burden of having to preclear changes in texas election law
students to vote. they re ending same danger registration. they re even putting specific new limits on voting on sundays. which nobody has even tried to link to some voter fraud threat. but sundays do tend to be the days when they all go vote. the justice department is also challenging the north carolina law. they were never able to go ahead with this before the supreme court. and on the same day that judge in texas was getting turned away from the the polls because heaven forbid she once got married, on that same day north carolina republicans started to file their legal defense to all the lawsuits that they re facing challenging their new voter suppression law. and on the same day in north carolina as the state republican party was starting its defense of this law, which is expected the to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of african-american voters in north carolina, on that same day, the republican
onto ballots. just yesterday the texas tribune posted a survey piece on people worrying about the issue and ultimately concluded, ah, don t worry. they quoted a spokesperson reassuring people there s really nothing to worry about. there you see the headline. could name change spur voter i.d. issue? officials say no. that came out yesterday in texas. by last night this was the local news in corpus christi. good evening, everyone. katia is off this evening. at the top, the state s new voter i.d. law may be causing delays at your neighborhood polling place. especially if the name on your driver s license differs from the name on your voter registration card. even a little bit. the county election officials say it s often a problem for women who use maiden names or hyphenated names. the problem came to light yesterday when a local district judge had trouble casting a ballot.
announced a new national director of voter protection to work on these issues across the country. but in the meantime these issues are happening at the very local level. texas elections, for example, are under way with these new draconian and bewildering set of rules and for now at least it s being left to local officials operating precinct by precinct, town by town, county by county, to try to figure out how to make this new law work and how far they re going to have to try to stretch the law and try to work around it and work through it to let people who have been voting for years keep voting like they are used to doing. joining us now is one of those people who have involved in the struggle. tony pippins pool from dallas county. her state is searching for voters who do not have i.d. or who may run into problems with the i.d. they do have. dallas county decided to try to find the voters ahead of time and help them now so they will not get blocked at the polls. it s great to have you
i have to say, there are precisely zero high stakes big publicity super motivating statewide issues on the ballot in the election in texas this year. this is a whole bunch of constitutional amendments about things like the number of days that aircraft parts are exempt from taxes. something about reverse mortgages that i m sure is very important. nobody is expecting massive turnout for elections in texas. for people to vote on if there s a hospital board district. a few sprinkling of municipal elections happening in various places around the state. this is going to be a very low turnout election in texas this year. you can track the voter turnout already and see in some precincts the total number of voters so far is like 13 or 26. so the problems the people are having voting right now under the new strict texas voter i.d. laws, these are quiet little problems happening here and