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On this date -- some 231 years ago in Philadelphia -- 39 delegates from the fledgling nation known as the United States of America came together to sign the final iteration of its Constitution.

Voting is the cornerstone of our democracy and the fundamental right upon which all our civil liberties rest, and we at the ACLU of Texas work to protect and expand Americans' freedom to vote.

Yesterday, President Trump announced he had dissolved the Presidential Commission on Election Integrity. In a series of tweets explaining his decision, the president blamed “many mostly Democrat states” for protecting their voters’ privacy, compounded the sinister myth of widespread voter fraud, and further undermined American institutions by repeating his dangerous pre-election refrain that the “system is rigged.”

The 5th Circuit’s ruling on Texas’s voter ID law is welcome, but not enough.

The Justice Department found that Texas's Photo Voter ID law discriminates against minority voters. Spread the word.

Early voting in the Texas primaries began May 14th, and we’ve been hearing from people around the state about the unprecedented level of confusion among voters, media, and even election officials over the Photo Voter ID law that was passed by the Texas Legislatur

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