77% of Georgia Voters Favor ID Checks Before Voting, Justice Department Disagrees

rasmussen report ^ | Tuesday, June 02, 2009 | Rasmussen

[cbkaty]

The Department of Justice on Tuesday said the state of Georgia's system cannot check driver’s license information and Social Security numbers to prove that prospective voters are U.S. citizens.

Georgia’s voters have an entirely different perspective. Rasmussen Reports polling conducted during Election 2008 found that 77% said prospective voters should first be required to show a legal photo ID first.

Georgia’s voters also held that view two years earlier despite a state judge’s ruling that a new law requiring a photo ID at the polls was a violation of the state constitution.

Nationally, three-out-of-four U.S. voters (76%) said a person should be required to show photo identification at the polls before being allowed to vote.

While the Justice Department expressed concern that photo ID requirements might disenfranchise some voters, a plurality of voters nationwide have the opposite concern. Forty-two percent (42%) believe it is more common for people to vote illegally than it is for legal voters to be denied that right. Thirty-three percent (33%) disagree and say it is more likely that people are prevented from voting who should be allowed to do so.

The state of Georgia complains the latest Justice Department action will allow non-citizens to vote, but the Justice Department said the state’s system discriminated against minority voters. The ACLU and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) have sued the state over the law.

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Views on the need for photo ID before voting have held constant for years. Polling in both 2007 and 2006, to found that Americans overwhelmingly requirements for photo identification.

This is the second time this year the Justice Department has made headlines bucking popular local actions that it fears might violate minority rights. In March, 68% of Arizona voters had a favorable view of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, whose aggressive enforcement of laws against illegal immigration triggered an investigation by the Justice Department.

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[itsahoot]

POWER is what it's all about for them.

Remember when the Democrats in the legislature left the state and camped out in Oklahoma to avoid having a quorum. Fun bunch those Texas dims.

[cbkaty]

If this Obama regime wishes to turn our polling locations into 3rd-world-style polls......the people will eventually respond.

[hoosiermama]

Indiana has a photo ID law in effect. How is Georgia’s different? We had ruling from the SCOTUS IIRC. DOes/can Georgia (need to) file a case against the justice department in the federal court system.

[MrB]

Georgia should just enforce the voter ID requirement anyway,

turn away everyone that won’t comply,

and arrest any fed agents that attempt to force them to accept voters without ID.

[4Godsoloved..Hegave]

Time to put an end to all our ID’s...hmmm. That is what the DOJ really wants, right. /s