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Beto O'Rourke: “In Texas, you can't use your student ID at the University of…”

Featuring: Beto O'Rourke, Democratic | Former Candidate, Governor of Texas

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Is Texas Still a Democracy? with Beto O’Rourke

Published | Video Starts at 38:22

Not just in Texas, but Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, all these places that have concocted new regulations, closed thousands of polling places, put in new forms of voter id. In Texas, you can't use your student ID at the University of Texas at Austin to prove who you are at the polling place, but you can use your license to carry a firearm to do the same. Again, very clear who they want to vote and who they do not want to vote in our elections. And the impact has been absolutely devastating. (38:22–38:32)

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Asserts that Texas allows firearm licenses but not student IDs for voter identification.

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