Write an essay that includes a minimum of three methods of voter disenfranchisement, and cases, that have occurred in Texas post “reconstruction”. One of the cases must involve the Texas Voter ID law, and the current status of the law. Explain how the law impacted the Jim Wright or Lila Cockrell. Given the changes to the Voting Rights Act, what can be expected of the constitutional required redistricting, that will occur this year? You will define the terms and explain in detail, how the policies impacted minority groups participation in elections. Identify the year that the federal courts invalidated the practices you identified, which court made the decisive ruling, and on what grounds they based their ruling.
