Waller County Texas: Racist by design

I think one great way to honor Sandra Bland and to protest the outrageous actions of the police in Waller County Texas would be to start a fund for the acquisition of driver licenses for students at Prairieview college, and to facilitate their voter registrations.

It is no accident that Waller seems to have a sheriff that harasses, belittles, and quite possibly kills POC -- it is an intentional consequence of voter suppression. The long history (see Wikipedia entry below) of Waller County suppressing the voting rights of students at historically black Prairieview A&M continue today with the Texas voter ID law, which unfortunately still stands, thanks to the Supreme Court. I suspect that this latest Jim Crow method is very effective at blocking Prairie View students from voting.

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119900/texas-voter-id-allows-handgun-licenses-not-student-ids
Texans casting a ballot on Monday, when early voting begins, will need to show one of seven forms of photo ID. A concealed handgun license is okay, but a student ID isn't. The Supreme Court on Saturday allowed Texas to go forward with this controversial voter ID law. A federal judge had previously struck down the law, arguing that it could disenfranchise 600,000 voters or a full 4.5 percent of registered voters, many of them black and Latino.

Prairie View college has 8,608 students, most of whom would be of eligible voting age. Waller Country has a population of about 45,000, all ages included. In 2012, the vote in Waller was 9,158 votes for Romney and 6,401 votes for Obama. How many Prairie View students Would it take to upset the right wing racists in Waller County, and to get a more equal-justice oriented local government?

Voting Controversies
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waller_County,_Texas#Voting_controversies
As reported by the US District Court (Southern District of Texas, Corpus Christi Division) in Veasey v Perry, October 2014 (CIVIL ACTION NO. 13-CV-00193), pp 6–7 verbatim:

In 1971, after the 26th Amendment extended the vote to those 18 years old and older, Waller County which was home to Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU), a historically Black university, became troubled with race issues. Waller County’s tax assessor and voter registrar prohibited students from voting unless they or their families owned property in the county. This practice was ended by a three-judge court in 1979.
In 1992, a county prosecutor indicted PVAMU students for illegally voting, but dropped the charges after receiving a protest from the DOJ.
In 2003, a PVAMU student ran for the commissioner’s court. The local district attorney and county attorney threatened to prosecute students for voter fraud—for not meeting the old domicile test. These threatened prosecutions were enjoined, but Waller County then reduced early voting hours, which was particularly harmful to students because the election day was during their spring break. After the NAACP filed suit, Waller County reversed the changes to early voting and the student narrowly won the election.
In 2007-08, during then Senator Barack Obama’s campaign for president, Waller County made a number of voting changes without seeking preclearance. The county rejected “incomplete” voter registrations and required volunteer deputy registrars (VDRs) to personally find and notify the voters of the rejection. The county also limited the number of new registrations any VDR could submit, thus limiting the success of voter registration drives. These practices were eventually prohibited by a consent decree.