The Federal Court of Appeal confirms the law on the identification of Texas voters for voting ballots by mail, says they are not “sure”

Texas won a victory on Monday when a federal court of appeal confirmed a law of the state obliging voters using postal bulletins to include an identification number of the state or a partial social security number.

A panel of three judges reversed the decision of a district court, unanimously affirming that the law had not violated the civil rights law of 1964, as some criticisms have claimed, because it is important to confirm the eligibility for voters, as required by law.

Voters pass the panels in a survey during the Super primary elections Tuesday in Rio Grande City, Texas, March 5, 2024. (Reuters / Cheney Orr)

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Judge James Ho started unanimous opinion With a blunt declaration, “postal bulletins are not secure”, citing Veasey v. Perry.

The case, later known as veasey v. Abbott on appeal, involved the law on the identification of Texas voters and included the conclusions confirmed by the fifth circuit that “postal fraud is a significant threat”.

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“The requirement of the identification number is obviously designed to confirm that each voter of postal bulletins is precisely who it claims that it is. And it is clearly” material “to” determine whether this person is qualified under the law of the State to vote “, Ho wrote in opinion.

HO and the other panel judges were aligned with their colleagues on the third circuit, who judged that “the materiality provision only applies to the determination of the qualification of voters”. He said that the third circuit analysis was “convincing”.

A federal court of appeal has confirmed a law on the identification of voters by mail from Texas. (Reuters / Latif))

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In addition, Ho notes that if the complainants maintain that “there is not enough evidence to show that the requirement of the identification number would significantly reduce electoral fraud”, the State does not agree on the issue.

“Our previous ones force us to sit with Texas. We have clearly indicated that states have a legitimate interest in combating electoral fraud, and therefore taking advantage of considerable discretion to decide what is an adequate level of efficiency to serve (their) important interests in the integrity of voters”, wrote Ho in opinion.

People vote in the East Aldine community on November 5, 2024 in Houston. (Danielle Villasana / Getty Images)

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The fifth circuit – the same courtyard which ruled in favor of Texas – allowed the tightening of the rules of voters in the past. Recently, the judges with the fifth circuit ruled that the ballots by mail should arrive on the day of the ballot to be counted, Politico reported.

The law on the protection of the integrity of the 2021 Texas elections was signed in September of the same year, following the presidential election of 2020. At the time, several republican states began to suppress the identification of voters. In addition, according to the Texas TribuneThe law limited local election control by prohibiting counties from providing extended voting options.

Fox News Digital contacted the Governor Governor’s office Greg Abbott.