Posted on 09/17/2009 7:47:19 AM PDT by Abathar
INDIANAPOLIS -- The Indiana Court of Appeals has ruled that Indiana's voter identification law is unconstitutional.
6News is looking through the 29-page ruling now and will provide details from it as soon as possible.
The decision comes after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the state's voter ID law in 2008, a week before the presidential primary, in a splintered 6-3 ruling.
Backers of the law, which requires a voter to present a photo identification to cast a ballot, said it curbs voter fraud.
Those against the law contend that it keeps poor, older and minority voters from casting ballots.
The law passed in 2005 with the ardent support of Gov. Mitch Daniels and other Republicans in state government.
(Excerpt) Read more at theindychannel.com ...
This was the model used by other states to draft theirs after the Supreme Court upheld it and it was used in the 2008 election, WTH is going on here?
Another globalist tyrant in a black robe. Does Indiana have a recall provision for jurists?
I hate to have the Feds involved in things, but for national elections we need a federal law that requires voter ID. If the state doesn’t like it, fine, they don’t have to do it, and their votes will not be included in the tally. For their state elections, I guess they can do whatever stupid thing their citizens will allow.
The courts of the US are openly fermenting insurrection.
How is 6-3 a “splintered ruling”?
Better believe we will find out, it was the state court of appeals that just did this, and it was already ruled on by the S.C..
seems this would be quickly overturned by a challenge upstream federally since direct precedence is only one year old
I think this problem is worthy of a constitutional amendment.
Coming as it does on top of the ACORN scandals this is especially obnoxious. It is legitimate to have laws designed to prevent vote fraud, and there was nothing onerous about this law. This just opens the door wide, again, to vote fraud.
Indiana League of Women Voters (Democrat) got it killed...
This PASSED the US Supreme Court Test, but the State Appeals Court is throwing it out because it treats Absentees differently than live voters.
(HINT: Absentee voter fraud is where it’s at, now)
The same way a “5-4” Rowe v. Wade was “decisive”.
Indiana courts can’t overturn a Fed supreme court ruling, can they? it’s a higher court.
So how do the poor, elderly and minorities board aircraft in Indiana??
Indeed, I don’t see any other way to avoid an outright slaughter and civil war.
We cannot live with these people. They are insisting on enslaving us, using government to do so.
And we will not be enslaved.
A peaceful separation at the state level would be preferred, but the collectivists wouldn’t allow that, because they are intent on forcing everyone to conform to their will.
Leftists even reject the idea when you dispel this excuse with an offer to provide state issued photo ID at no cost to the needy.
They come up with an even lamer excuse of the poor/elderly being unable to go get the ID.
Well, bleeding heart lib - GO TAKE THEM TO GET IT.
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