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    Case 2:13-cv-00193 Document 859 Filed in TXSD on 07/21/16 Page 1 of 2

    United States District Court


    Southern District of Texas

    ENTERED
    UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
    SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS
    CORPUS CHRISTI DIVISION
    MARC VEASEY, et al,
    Plaintiffs,
    VS.
    GREG ABBOTT, et al,
    Defendants.

    July 21, 2016


    David J. Bradley, Clerk

    CIVIL ACTION NO. 2:13-CV-00193

    ORDER

    Pursuant to the opinion in Veasey v. Abbott, No. 14-41127 (5th Cir. July 20, 2016)
    (en banc), the Court issues the following ORDERS with respect to formulating a plan for
    interim relief for the November 8, 2016 elections. The parties are ORDERED to meet
    and confer on or before July 29, 2016 to determine what plan terms may be subject to
    agreement. The parties are ORDERED to submit their respective plans and supportive
    briefing to address the infirmities in SB 14 on or before August 5, 2016. The parties may
    then file responses to any other plan for interim relief on or before August 11, 2016. The
    matter will be called on Wednesday, August 17, 2016 at 9:30 a.m. for arguments on any
    remaining differences.
    It is further ORDERED that any plan for interim relief must include terms
    regarding the following:
    All persons who have SB 14 ID or who have the means to get it in time
    for the November 8, 2016 election must display that ID in order to vote;
    No ID that is easily counterfeited may be used in any ameliorative
    provision;
    There must be an impediment or indigency exception, which may
    include reinstatement of the ability to use the voter registration card for
    such voters;

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    Case 2:13-cv-00193 Document 859 Filed in TXSD on 07/21/16 Page 2 of 2

    The State must educate the public in a meaningful way about the SB 14
    ID requirements and all exceptions to those requirements that are set out
    in the original law and in the interim plan adopted by this Court;
    The State must educate and train workers at polling places to fully
    implement the resulting plan; and
    The plan shall address only the discriminatory effect holding of the Fifth
    Circuits opinion and shall not include relief that would be available
    only in the event that this Court finds, upon reweighing the evidence,
    that SB 14 was enacted with a discriminatory purpose.
    ORDERED this 21st day of July, 2016.
    ___________________________________
    NELVA GONZALES RAMOS
    UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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