The latest episode has the press fawning over her because when she went to vote, the ID she used was not an exact match for the name on her voter registration card. Because of that, she had to take two seconds to sign an affidavit stating that she was the person on the list of registered voters. The press had a field day with that one, using it to point out how “bad” the Texas Voter ID law is.
The problem is that it didn’t point out anything except exactly how lazy the Texas media is. Because if they had performed about 2 seconds of research as to why the abortion queen had to sign the affidavit, they would have discovered that the queen herself was responsible for that particular clause in the law.
From the Senate Journal for January 26, 2011:
Senator Davis offered the following amendment to the bill:
Floor Amendment No. 41
Amend SB 14 in SECTION 7 of the bill, in amended Section 63.001(c), Election Code (page 4, line 6), by adding after the period “If in determining whether a voter’s name is on the list of registered voters the election officer determines that the voter’s name on the documentation is substantially similar but does not match exactly the name on the list, the voter shall be accepted for voting as otherwise required by this section if the voter submits an affidavit stating that the voter is the person on the list of registered voters.”
The amendment to SB 14 was read and was adopted by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
Absent-excused: Uresti
So basically we have a fake blonde moment here. “I had to sign an affidavit saying that I was Wendy Davis!” “Oh, I put that amendment in? Ooopsie!”
Peggy Fikac of the Houston Chronicle pushed the story out and then had to issue an update. But her update is very misleading:
UPDATE: Sen. Davis offered the amendment to the Voter ID law that provided for the affidavit when the measure was approved in the Senate in 2011.
The amendment reads, “If in determining whether a voter’s name is on the list of registered voters the election officer determines that the voter’sname on the documentation is substantially similar but does not match exactly the name on the list, the voter shall be accepted for voting as otherwise required by this section if the voter submits an affidavit stating that the voter is the person on the list of registered voters.”
Davis voted against the measure.
So, she put forth the amendment and then voted against it? No, she voted for it. She voted against the ultimate bill but she owns this amendment. Details, details. But hey, anything to push a far left Democratic nutcase, right Peggy?