{"id":514968,"date":"2016-07-20T16:18:03","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T21:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=514968"},"modified":"2016-07-21T16:18:04","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T21:18:04","slug":"changes-ordered-to-the-states-voter-id-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=514968","title":{"rendered":"Schaefer Reacts to Changes Ordered to the State&#8217;s Voter ID Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/02\/thumb_matt-schaeffer-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/02\/thumb_matt-schaeffer-11.jpg\" alt=\"thumb_matt-schaeffer-1\" width=\"92\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-327042\" \/><\/a>AUSTIN &#8212; A Tyler lawmaker is not pleased after the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the state&#8217;s voter ID law violates the Voting Rights Act. The New Orleans court has ordered changes before the November election. State Representative Matt Schaefer says he strongly disagrees with the court&#8217;s ruling. He says &#8220;fraud is real and we know there is an effort to allow illegal aliens to vote in the United States.&#8221; Schaefer says if the court has left one inch of flexibility to come back and reform this bill, lawmakers will do it.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The ruling was issued Wednesday by the court. The ruling instructs a lower court to make changes that fix the &#8220;discriminatory effect&#8221; of the 2011 law in the months leading up to this fall&#8217;s election. But the ruling said the lower court should make changes that disrupt this year&#8217;s election season as little as possible. <\/p>\n<p>The Obama administration took the unusual step of deploying the weight of the U.S. Justice Department into the case when it challenged the law. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN &#8212; A Tyler lawmaker is not pleased after the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the state&#8217;s voter ID law violates the Voting Rights Act. The New Orleans court has ordered changes before the November election. State Representative Matt Schaefer says he strongly disagrees with the court&#8217;s ruling. He says &#8220;fraud is real &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=514968\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Schaefer Reacts to Changes Ordered to the State&#8217;s Voter ID Law<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-18 12:34:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=514968"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":514983,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514968\/revisions\/514983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=514968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=514968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=514968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}