Georgia now requires photo ID to vote: State's voter ID law holds up in court

[kenny blankenship]

State's voter ID law holds up in court
Federal judge rejects challenge

By BILL RANKIN
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 09/06/07

A federal judge in Rome has thrown out a lawsuit challenging Georgia's photo voter ID law.

In a ruling issued Thursday, U.S. District Judge Harold Murphy declined to issue an injunction suspending the law and also dismissed the case.

The plaintiffs failed to prove that the 2006 law's photo ID requirement unduly burdens the right to vote, Murphy ruled.

The fate of Georgia's much-debated photo voter ID law hung in the balance with local elections scheduled in 23 counties, including Fulton, on Sept. 18.

Murphy held hearings on the federal lawsuit late last month. The state Supreme Court this summer dismissed a similar suit filed in Fulton County Superior Court.
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And with that, thousands of poor and minority voters in Georgia have just been disenfranchised.

[napi21]

1. Can't we as Dems get the possible disenfranchised voters to

contact one or several phone #'s so we can help them get the required ID? Unless something has changed, there's supposed to be a program where the poor can get a State ID at no cost, so isn't all they need is a way to get to a site? I'm positive we could find enough volunteers to do that.