A new says the combined impact of voter ID laws, proof of citizenship requirements, and inaccurate purges of voter registration rolls could prevent over 10 million Latino Americans from registering and voting in elections this year.
The report is authored by the , a national civil rights organization that opposes measures like voter ID. It argues that 鈥渧oter suppression laws and policies threaten to relegate eligible Latino voters to second-class citizenship and impede their ability to participate fully in American democracy.鈥�
Texas laws and actions are targeted by The Advancement Project, including the state鈥檚 voter ID law (which was , and is unlikely to be implemented this November). The report also lists Texas as among 14 states that have requested U.S. Department of Homeland Security data 鈥渇or the purpose of conducting state voter purges based on citizenship.鈥�
A similar attempt to cull Texas voter rolls by cross referencing names against has been , amid concerns it would disenfranchise living voters this Election Day.
Crunching 2010 Census data, the Advancement Project notes Texas has a Hispanic citizen voting age population of nearly 4.4 million, yet just over a million of that population voted in the 2010 election.
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