Supreme Court allows Arizona voter ID law

Washington Post ^ | Friday, October 20, 2006; 6:07 PM | Reuters

[GilGil]

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Friday that Arizona may require voters to present proof of citizenship when registering to vote and identification when they cast their ballots in the November 7 elections...

[GilGil]

Now all the other states whose voter ID laws have been struck down should immediately appeal in time for the elections. Awesome!

[bordergal]

Can I ululate now in celebration????

[divine_moment_of_facts]

Good Deal.. Not holding my breathe waiting for NJ to adopt it.

[glorgau]

Very nice of the Court to "allow" the desires of citizens expressed in valid elections.

[seastay]

Now all the other states whose voter ID laws have been struck down should immediately appeal in time for the elections. Awesome

wont happen in CA where the state is investigating warning letters sent out by somebody saying that immigrants who are residing illegally vote they are going to be deported which paraphrased the illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act, making it a federal crime for non-citizens to vote in any federal election (or state election, unless authorized by state law) enacted by Congress. Arnold has called the letters a hate crime, Sen Kennedy has asked the Justice department for a probe demanding the person who sent the letters to be prosecuted and the Republican party has even come out publicly against these warnings.

[Sonar5]

Hey, that's good news for all.....

Every Republican candidate in the country should bring this up between now and the election.

And I am all in favor on non-Arizona states running ads citing the ruling to keep the rest of the illegals away form their illegal acts on election day...

Great Job SCOTUS...

Regards,
Joe

[Mark]

Pole Tax!! (/lib spin)

I'm voting absentee, so I guess that postage cost is a pole tax too.

[oneamericanvoice]

Yeah! It would cut alot of votes out of California!

It is a great day for America!

[Mark]

POLL- not Pole!!

[R.W.Ratikal]

It's like seeing your new Cadillac go over a cliff with your mother-in-law driving it.

I like the idea that the SCOTUS ruled in favor of IDs. At the same time I'm sorry to see us come to the point where we have to identify ourselves to government.

Remember when: who I am, where I'm going, what I'm doing is none of the government's business.

[FormerLib]

A big win for the good guys!!!

[FormerLib]

No, they make the Poles pay postage too.

[Navy Patriot]

I suspect an immediate appeal would be heard for those cases where the laws exactly matched the Arizona law. Otherwise the legislatures will have to rewrite and pass new legislation that conforms to the SCOTUS decision.

[stephenjohnbanker]

B T T T

[deport]

This is a good ruling for the upcoming election. Hopefully SCOTUS will leave it stand.

The justices cautioned that they were not issuing a ruling on the constitutionality of Arizona's law. "As we have noted, the facts in these cases are hotly contested," the court said in an unsigned five-page order.

Indeed, the court said it would review the legal challenge to Arizona's Proposition 200, approved by the state's voters in 2004. The law requires voters to prove citizenship when registering to vote and to show photo IDs when they go to the polls. The law was meant to make sure illegal immigrants weren't casting ballots.

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AZCentral article..... Gannett media so can only link A few more details are included.

[Cobra64]

"The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Friday that Arizona may require voters to present proof of citizenship when registering to vote and identification when they cast their ballots in the November 7 elections..."

The operative word is may.

I prefer will.

[Cobra64]

Now all the other states whose voter ID laws have been struck down should immediately appeal in time for the elections. Awesome!

Wanna bet?

[GarySpFc]

This is wonderful news.

[originalbuckeye]

Woo-hoo! I would love to see this in CA. In 2004, when I offered my driver's license as an ID at the poll, the lady said I didn't need ID to vote. I said 'You're kidding'. Sadly, she wasn't. It's the only way to keep the voting honest.......the honor system doesn't work here.

[bpjam]

Hell, in California we were given written instructions from a prior Attorney General that it was actually ILLEGAL for us to even ask prospective voters if they were citizens when registering them!!! It was unbelievable for the CRP wouldn't allow us to go out and register voters unless we agreed that we weren't going to ask people whether or not they were citizens (even though it was the second line on the entire form and right before it said that it was a felony to register to vote if you weren't eligible) because the CRP didn't want to get accused of being racists.