Texas voter registration laws stay

AUSTIN (KXAN) - The U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling Tuesday night that ensures Texas voter registration laws are to stay as they are.

The court rejected Project Vote's emergency request to block Texas from enforcing election integrity laws that were enacted to prevent voter-registration fraud, according to Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott's office.

"The Supreme Court's rejection of Project Vote's appeal is a victory for voter integrity and helps Texas prevent fraud in the voter-registration process," said Abbott in a released statement. "The partisan groups that challenged these laws were founded by and affiliated with ACORN - an organization that was notorious for voter-registration fraud. With this ruling, the court rejected these ACORN affiliates' attempts to circumvent election integrity laws and helped ensure that Texans can have confidence in the integrity of their elections."

On Sept. 6, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued a ruling staying the preliminary injunction issued by the lower court against the state's third-party voter-registration laws.

The emergency appeal was filed with the U.S. Supreme Court on Sept. 14, which was denied Tuesday night.