Voter ID: Another non-problem solved
April 28, 2008 at 2:39 pm by Andisheh Nouraee in NewsThe U.S. Supreme Court upheld Indiana’s voter-ID law today. According to the New York Times, Indiana’s voter-ID law was stricter than Georgia. Translation: If Indiana’s law can get by the Supremes, Georgia’s law can, too.
In a 6-to-3 ruling in one of the most awaited election-law cases in years, the court rejected arguments that Indiana’s law imposes unjustified burdens on people who are old, poor or members of minority groups and less likely to have driver’s licenses or other acceptable forms of identification. Because Indiana’s law is considered the strictest in the country, similar laws in the other 20 or so states that have photo-identification rules would appear to have a good chance of surviving scrutiny.
Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State of Karen Handel is quoted on AJC.com calling the ruling a “good step forward for the integrity of our elections.” Nevermind that in-person voting fraud at polling places isn’t actually a problem in Georgia, or, as far as I can tell, anywhere else in the country.
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