Legal Insurrection by Jane Coleman 8/5/2025
The law is obviously designed to confirm that every mail-in voter is who he claims to be.In a win for election integrity, a unanimous federal appeals court has upheld Texas’s law requiring voter ID for mail-in ballots.
The State has a legitimate interest in preventing voter fraud, and the law’s ID requirements serve that interest, the court ruled.
Judge James Ho wrote the opinion on behalf of the three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Mail-in voting is particularly susceptible to fraud. In Texas, the court points out, anyone can request and receive basic information about a registered voter, “use that information to apply for a mail-in ballot, and then cast the ballot, with minimal risk of detection”—making it easy to cheat.
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https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/08/a-win-for-election-integrity-federal-appeals-court-upholds-texas-voter-id-law/
