A new plaintiff has joined Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Lawrence “Larry” Meyers’ attack on the new voter identification law, and all of the defendants now have denied the allegations.
The new plaintiff is Myrtis Evans, an election clerk. The lawsuit claims that the voter ID law violates the Texas Constitution because, among other things, it “shifts the burden onto voters to prove their innocence, rather than requiring the state to prove the citizen’s guilt.”
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