Supreme Court allows Arizona to require ID in November elections

[MonteSano]

The Supreme Court ruled Friday that Arizona may require voters to provide photo IDs or other identification when they cast their ballots next month.

The justices cautioned that they were not issuing a ruling on the constitutionality of Arizona's law. "As we have noted, the facts in these cases are hotly contested," the court said in an unsigned five-page order.

The ruling merely allows the Nov. 7 election to proceed with the photo ID law in place. Federal courts still will have to resolve a lawsuit contending that the law will disenfranchise numerous voters, particularly the elderly and minorities.


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[AtLiberty]

1. &*$%!!!

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[Wilms]

2. .

[autorank]

3. Rate this up..extremely important. I felt that this wold happen. KR

Just in time to screw minority and poor voters. Amazing. The Federal court had better stop this.

If they want to do picture ids, they sould make anyone there able to get one election day,

Thanks for the post.

[jody]

4. "no bright line separates permissible election-related regulation from

unconstitutional infringements"

See "Supreme Court upholds Arizona's photo ID law for elections"

Those who oppose Voter IDs claim it places an unconstitutional burden on members of minorities who do not have ready access to the forms of identification required to register and to vote.

IMO SCOTUS should allow opponents of voter ID a forum to prove their case just as proponents of Intelligent Design, another ID case, were allowed their day in federal court to prove creationism was science and evolution was wrong, see Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District.

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The ACLU of Pennsylvania (2005) (in conjunction with Americans United) in Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District won a Federal court case on behalf of parents of public school children against the school district that had attempted to impose religious beliefs on those who did not share them. (For the opinion see: www.aclu.org/religion/schools/23137lgl20051220.html) The parents objected that the religious beliefs, under the guise "intelligent design" as an alternative to the theory of evolution, violated their religious liberty by promoting particular religious beliefs to their children under the guise of science education.
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[unblock]

5. yup. "let's steal an election or 2 before admitting it's unconstitutional"

[In Truth We Trust]

6. Hand Counted Paper Ballots NOW! ...or Fascism Forever.