Michael Quinn Sullivan, who heads up Empower Texans, has pieced together a fascinating timeline on the Voter ID bill last legislative session. It centers on Rep. Todd Smith, a Republican from Euless, who chairs the House Elections Committee.

We've been following the Voter ID issue since we first arrived in Texas and looked into potential voter fraud. In Harris County, for example, we found 4,000 people whose names are listed both on Harris County's voter rolls and also in a federal database of death records -- and we found names used to vote who matched the names of the deceased.

According to the Empower Texans timeline:

71 members of the Texas House sign a letter urging a vote on Voter ID legislation. Rep. Smith ignored it. Had he allowed a vote here, the legislation would have made it to the floor for a vote.

Read the whole thing here.