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 <p style="text-align: center;"><strong>LDF Pens Letter to Texas Secretary of State Urging Protection of Voters after Hurricane Harvey&nbsp;</strong></p>
<p>Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) <a href="/files/about-us/LDF%20Letter%20re%20Natural%20Disaster%20Provision.pdf">sent a letter</a> to Texas Secretary of State Rolando Pablos urging him to prevent the disenfranchisement of eligible Texas&nbsp;voters who, due to Hurricane Harvey,&nbsp;lack the transportation and resources necessary to vote. Because of the devastating impact of the storm,&nbsp;upwards of 834,800 people in Texas have registered for FEMA support, over 60,000 Texans remain displaced and roughly 500,000 cars have been damaged or destroyed. For these reasons,&nbsp;many otherwise eligible voters no longer possess the identification required&nbsp;under Texas’s voter identification law - <a href="http://www.naacpldf.org/case-issue/united-states-v-texas-et-al">a law that LDF is&nbsp;currently&nbsp;challenging in federal court</a>. The racially disparate impact of the photo ID law has only been exacerbated since the storm&nbsp;as Black and Latino Texans are more likely to have lost their IDs in its wake. As a result, it will be difficult for many voters to reach their assigned polling sites on&nbsp;Election&nbsp;Day and/or&nbsp;register to vote by the October 10, 2017 deadline.&nbsp;</p>
<p>LDF urges Secretary of State Pablos&nbsp;to take immediate action by&nbsp;allowing voters to vote in locations other than their assigned precincts,&nbsp;providing&nbsp;Texans from affected areas more time to register and to update their voter&nbsp;registration&nbsp;information, and informing election officials and voters that the natural disaster provision extends through December 4, which&nbsp;encompasses the November 7 election. If no action is taken, substantial burdens on&nbsp;voters' ability to participate in upcoming elections are&nbsp;likely to violate the United States Constitution as well as Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.</p>
<p>This letter was sent on behalf of the Texas State Conference of the NAACP, the Texas Organizing Project Education Fund, the Texas Civil Rights Project, and Harris County Commissioner Rodney Ellis, Fort Bend County Commissioner Grady Prestage, and Jefferson County Commissioner Everette Alfred. Read it in full <a href="/files/about-us/LDF%20Letter%20re%20Natural%20Disaster%20Provision_0.pdf">here</a>.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Press:</strong></p>
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<li>Sam Levine, <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/texas-harvey-voting-rights_us_59e0cbcae4b04d1d51813ed2?ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000067">Civil Rights Group Threatens Texas If It Doesn't Protect Voting Rights of Hurricane Victims</a>, Huffington Post (October 13, 2017)</li>
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