Advocates: Voter ID ruling may disenfranchise US voters

The Supreme Court's refusal to strike down an Indiana law requiring government-issued photo identification at the ballot box could disenfranchise minority and elderly voters at next week's primary and prompt other states to pass similar laws, voting advocates said Monday.

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Excerpts from Supreme Court ruling for voter ID requirement

Excerpts from Monday's 6-3 Supreme Court decision upholding Indiana's law requiring voters to present a picture ID before they vote:

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Supreme Court says states can demand photo ID for voting

States can require voters to produce photo identification, the Supreme Court ruled Monday, upholding a Republican-inspired law that Democrats say will keep some poor, older and minority voters from casting ballots.

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Carded at Polls: No Photo ID, No Vote

There's the poor, 32-year-old mother of seven who says it would cost her at least $50 to vote in person. There's also the 92-year-old woman who's voted for decades in the same polling place, but now can't vote there because she let her driver's license expire when her eyesight began to fail.

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Court Seems to Back Indiana Voter ID Law

The Supreme Court appeared ready Wednesday to uphold the nation's strictest requirement that voters show photo identification before casting a ballot.

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Ind. Voter ID Law Heads to Supreme Court

The dispute over Indiana's voter ID law that is headed to the Supreme Court in January is as much a partisan political drama as a legal tussle.

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Indiana Voter ID Law Unfair, Foes Press

Poor, black and elderly people tend to be less likely than others to have the photo identification required to vote under Indiana law, opponents of the law said Tuesday, citing a survey of prospective voters.

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Georgia to Require Photo IDs to Vote

Georgia voters must present government-issued photo identification to cast a ballot in the primary election, which is less than three weeks away, the State Election Board said Thursday.

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How many dozen other Congressmen who oppose voter ID laws are going to hypocritically enforce voter-ID rules at their town halls -- And does that mean that controlling their meetings is more important than controlling the voting process?

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The struggle over Voter ID in South Carolina.

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Record numbers of Americans are expected to go to the polls on November 4th, but our system still leaves room for suppression and manipulation.

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There are two varieties of election fraud: illegitimate voters out to cast ballots and legitimate voters whose ballots are cast out. From this vantage point, the latter is far more prevalent. And far more likely to occur with the weighted voter ID laws in Florida and elsewhere.

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ur nation may be on the brink of repeating the 2000 Florida election debacle, but this time in several states, with allegations of voter fraud, intimidation and manipulation of voting machines added to the generalized chaos that sent our last presidential contest into overtime.

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The 2008 presidential election in the US may well leave us all waxing nostalgic for the good old disaster days of 2000 and 2004.

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In Arizona, the only state that requires proof of citizenship to register to vote, more than 38,000 voter registration applications have been thrown out since the state adopted its measure in 2004.

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Missouri's Secretary of State weighs in on the recent controversy surrounding Indiana's Voter-ID law and efforts to instituted similar requirements in Missouri.

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At least 10 retired nuns in South Bend, Ind., were barred from voting in Tuesday's Indiana Democratic primary election because they lacked photo IDs required under a state law that the Supreme Court upheld last week.

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By DEBORAH HASTINGS AP National Writer About 12 Indiana nuns were turned away Tuesday from a polling place by a fellow bride of Christ because they didn't have state or federal identification bearing a photograph.

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It is chilling to think that state legislators and election officials would intentionally try to make it harder for Americans to vote, but they always have — with poll taxes, literacy tests and gerrymandering.

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Since the 2000 election, one of the most contentious issues in election administration has been voter identification requirements. Currently, 27 states require or request some form of identification from voters at the polls on Election Day.

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Justice John Paul Stevens, who wrote the lead opinion, said opponents of the law failed to prove that a photo requirement imposed a significant burden on would-be voters. The justice and his colleagues who concurred are out of touch.

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By a vote of 6-3, the US Supreme Court has upheld the Indiana Voter ID Law, which required voters there to establish who they are and that they are legal residents of Indiana before they vote. Similar laws have been passed in several other states.

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The GOP may have committed massive vote fraud in plain sight by encouraging widespread voter purges and restricting registration campaigns.

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According to a statement from Sen.

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THIS is a major election year. Unfortunately, our two major political parties — Democratic and Republican — continue to disagree on some of the rules that apply to the administration of our elections.

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Finally, a law that represents a real right to vote. I hope other states/areas do this type of thing. I believe that this law will reduce voter fraud. replytoj001

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Two ideological camps are in a bitter struggle over voter identification rules. The issue receives an airing in the Supreme Court this week. Neither side in the voter ID dispute has a lot of facts behind its arguments, but the quarrel is not likely to end soon.

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In April 2006, a federal judge upheld Indiana's law on voter identification, the strictest in the nation, saying there was no evidence that it would prevent any voter from having his ballot counted.

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Sen. Jacob Howard on Voter qualifications: "It is one of the rights reserved to the States, and is to be exercised in its fullness and in its plenitude without any control on the part of Congress or any question being put by Congress to them."

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Eight attorneys general of various states, led by Texas' Greg Abbott, have filed an amicus brief in a landmark voter ID case before the U.S. Supreme Court. The brief is riddled with lies and errors.

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"Poor, black and elderly people tend to be less likely than others to have the photo identification required to vote under Indiana law, opponents of the law said today, citing a survey of prospective voters."

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The State of Indiana has the most stringent voter ID laws in the country. Democrats are always griping about this, and have even gone so far as to challenge Indiana's law in the Supreme Court.

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Right wing's focus on voter ID: "Hey, look over there!"

A recent discussion on Killfile's article about a news conference question regarding the Libby commutation took an interesting turn into the topic of voter ID.

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