Ind. voter ID law heads to Supreme Court

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Ind. voter ID law heads to Supreme Court
By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press Writer
29 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - 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.

On one side are mainly Republican backers of the law, including the Bush administration, who say state-produced photo identification is a prudent measure intended to cut down on vote fraud. Yet there have been no Indiana prosecutions of in-person voter fraud — the kind the law is supposed to prevent.

On the other side are mainly Democratic opponents who call voter ID a modern-day poll tax that will disproportionately affect poor, minority and elderly voters — who tend to back Democrats. Yet, a federal judge found that opponents of the law were unable to produce evidence of a single, individual Indiana resident who had been barred from voting because of the law.

The Supreme Court, which famously split 5-4 in the case that sealed the 2000 presidential election for George Bush, will take up the Indiana law on January 9, just as the 2008 presidential primaries are getting under way.



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[BulletproofLandshark]

1. Give the GOP "credit"

They never stop finding ways to subvert democracy

[Sancho]

2. We have a similar law in Florida...

it is another way to turn away voters who are likely Democrats: retired folks!