Word: ‘That same day’
May 30, 2008 at 5:24 pm by Andisheh Nouraee in Word/FoundOn May 28, the Democratic Party of Georgia challenged Georgia’s voter ID in Fulton County Superior Court. State Republicans say a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling settled the voter ID issue in their favor. State Democrats say the opposite is true.
“We think there are close to half a million people who are registered voters but won’t be able to vote.”
-Emmet Bondurant, lawyer for the Democratic Party of Georgia, as quoted in the Fulton County Daily Report on May 28.
On Friday, May 23, millions of Georgians were busy planning their Memorial Day weekends, writing letters and making phone calls to loved ones serving in the U.S. Armed Forces, and remembering family members and friends who paid the ultimate sacrifice in service to our country. That same day, the Democratic Party of Georgia (DPG) was busy on a different matter: filing a fourth lawsuit against the State attacking the voter ID law.
-Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel, responding to the suit in a letter appearing on the Peach Pundit blog May 29.
May 30th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
“We think there are close to half a million people who are registered voters but won’t be able to vote”
So where are they?
May 30th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
After all of the press this issue has received, no one can say they did not know of the possible requirement to have an ID. The ID’s are free and people have had months to get one.
That said, should we be too upset that 500,000 with such a weak sense of civic duty “won’t be able to vote”?