Texas is permitted to enforce its law dismissing mail-in ballots without a voter’s identification number , a federal appeals court ruled on Monday.

The three-judge panel, led by U.S. Circuit Judge James Ho for the Fifth Circuit, said it had “no difficulty” concluding that Texas’s identification requirement was valid and consistent with federal law. A provision in the 1964 Civil Rights Act prevented states from imposing voting requirements that are “not material” to the validity of ballots. The judges found that the Texas law did not meet the bar set by that provision.

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