Posted on 04/28/2008 4:26:56 PM PDT by The_Republican
The Supreme Court upheld Indiana’s voter-identification law on Monday, declaring that a requirement to produce photo identification is not unconstitutional and that the state has a “valid interest” in improving election procedures as well as deterring fraud.
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.
The ruling, coming just eight days before the Indiana primary and at the height of a presidential election campaign, upheld rulings by a Federal District Court and the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, which had thrown out challenges to the 2005 law.
Justice John Paul Stevens, who announced the judgment of the court and wrote an opinion in which Chief John G. Roberts Jr. and Anthony M. Kennedy joined, alluded to — and brushed aside — complaints that the law benefits Republicans and works against Democrats, whose ranks are more likely to include poor people or those in minority groups.
The justifications for the law “should not be disregarded simply because partisan interests may have provided one motivation for the votes of individual legislators,” Justice Stevens wrote.
Justice Stevens and the two court members who joined him found that the Democrats and civil rights groups who attacked the law, seeking a declaration that it was unconstitutional on its face, had failed to meet the heavy burden required for such a “facial challenge” to prevail.
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HOly Hooser, you mean foreigners can’t vote in Indiana. What is the world coming to when criminal aliens don’t have the right to vote for the demorat of their choice? This is outrage I tell you.
Proves one thing, John Paul Stevens isn’t totally senile.
And I love this gem:
But Brian C. Bosma, who was speaker of the Indiana House when the law was enacted and is now the House’s Republican leader, dismissed the Democrats’ complaints. “This is only a burden for those who want to vote more than once,” Mr. Bosma said in a telephone interview from Indianapolis. “It protects everyone.”
Oh my the DUmmies are not going to like this.
Take from Democrats all the dead voters and illegal alien voters and some big cities might actually go purple.
No, doesn’t mean that at all. It means showing ID (just like the video rental store) but says nothing about citizenship.
http://www.ncsl.org/programs/legismgt/elect/taskfc/voteridreq.htm
States That Request Photo ID
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Indiana
Louisiana
Michigan
South Dakota
States that Require ID (photo not required)
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Kentucky
Missouri
Montana
New Mexico
North Dakota
Ohio
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
Washington
HOly Hooser, you mean foreigners can’t vote in Indiana.
What you mean they can’t get a Drivers License in IN now?.....
“...John Paul Stevens isn’t totally senile.”
Blind pig, acorn...
Thank the Lord that ther eis still some sanity left in this Country.
Are Death Certificates considered valid ID for Democrats?
I stand meekly corrected, but you get my jist.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
That’s a great quote. I’ll be passing it on.
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