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Republicans insisted on measures to prevent fraud, including identification requirements for certain new voters.
Still, the measure had detractors, particularly among Hispanic lawmakers who objected to new identification requirements for first-time voters.
Before this year, only two states, Indiana and Georgia, had "strict" photo identification requirements for voters, according to the conference.
Republicans said today that Senate Democrats were backing away from a provision of the Senate bill that would establish identification requirements for certain first-time voters who had registered by mail.
A New Hampshire legislative committee voted yesterday to accept $3 million in federal money to test the Real ID Act, which mandates stricter identification requirements for driver's licenses nationwide in 2008.
Universal background checks, ammunition background checks, and identification requirements for firearms are all state laws that could be applied nationally.
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Within hours, Texas officials said that they would begin enforcing a strict photo identification requirement for voters, which had been blocked by a federal court on the ground that it would disproportionately affect black and Hispanic voters.
The restrictions included a strict government-issued photo identification requirement for voters that would have gone into effect for next year's presidential election.
If those procedures are not being followed, or if the judge was "not still convinced... that there will be no voter disenfranchisement arising out of the Commonwealth's implementation of a voter identification requirement for purposes of the upcoming election" then he would be "obliged to enter a preliminary injunction," the higher court wrote.
While the number of office closures was less dramatic than what the ALEA had threatened in August, when the state legislature was still working out its budget, the state's voter identification requirement for elections means that some eligible voters could be disenfranchised if they are unable to travel far beyond their county to obtain a license.
The importance of the Northwest Austin case was apparent last week when the Justice Department rejected South Carolina's new law to impose a photo-identification requirement for voters in 2012.
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