Court Seems to Back Indiana Voter ID Law
Mark Sherman of The Associated Press reports: "The Supreme Court appeared ready Wednesday to uphold the nation's strictest requirement that voters show photo identification before casting a ballot."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010908R.shtml
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License and (voter) registration, please
Mother Jones
by Stephanie Mencimer
01/08/08
[A] Missouri court ruled in 2006 that a state law requiring photo ID to cast a ballot was an unconstitutional infringement on the right to vote akin to a poll tax because the paperwork required to get the ID was not free. But federal courts have also upheld several of these laws, including one in the state of Indiana considered the strictest in the country. That law will get the scrutiny of the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, in what promises to be a bitter partisan legal brawl of the sort the court has been avoiding since it put George W. Bush into office in 2000. It could well be the most significant voting rights case since Bush v. Gore and could have a direct impact on the outcome of the 2008 presidential election. If the court upholds the law, other states will be free to pass similarly strict laws that could potentially shut out millions of voters from exercising their constitutional right to vote...
http://tinyurl.com/24ve97
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Stephanie+Mencimer
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010908R.shtml
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License and (voter) registration, please
Mother Jones
by Stephanie Mencimer
01/08/08
[A] Missouri court ruled in 2006 that a state law requiring photo ID to cast a ballot was an unconstitutional infringement on the right to vote akin to a poll tax because the paperwork required to get the ID was not free. But federal courts have also upheld several of these laws, including one in the state of Indiana considered the strictest in the country. That law will get the scrutiny of the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, in what promises to be a bitter partisan legal brawl of the sort the court has been avoiding since it put George W. Bush into office in 2000. It could well be the most significant voting rights case since Bush v. Gore and could have a direct impact on the outcome of the 2008 presidential election. If the court upholds the law, other states will be free to pass similarly strict laws that could potentially shut out millions of voters from exercising their constitutional right to vote...
http://tinyurl.com/24ve97
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Stephanie+Mencimer
rudkla - 10. Jan, 16:26
