More than 30 states have some form of voter ID rules. The changes must still be approved by a federal judge. But the President Barack Obama's administration in recent years joined the fight on a new breed of voter ID laws passed in Republican-controlled statehouses, sending the U.S. Justice Department to join lawsuits in Texas and North Carolina. Texas agreed Wednesday to weaken its voter ID law as courts across the U.S., with only months before the November election, are blocking Republican-controlled states from imposing polling place restrictions that critics say target minorities and the poor. North Dakota's voter identification requirements are also on hold after a federal judge Monday sided with a group of American Indians who said the law unfairly burdens them.

Source: Fox News August 03, 2016 18:00 UTC