Voter ID Law Ruled Unconstitutional

[stu2002]

http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/20...constitutional

Voter ID Law Ruled Unconstitutional

Last Updated: Mon, 09/21/2009 - 11:55am

An Indiana voter identification law upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court last year has been overturned by a state court that claims the measure is unconstitutional because it’s not “uniform and impartial."

Passed by the Indiana Legislature in 2005 to prevent voter fraud, the law requires citizens to provide government-issued photo identification at the polls. More than 20 states have passed similar measures to prevent fraud and many have been legally challenged by Democrats and civil rights groups that claim requiring ID to vote deters the poor, elderly and minorities from casting ballots.

Arguing that it disenfranchises minorities and the poor, Democrats fought Indiana’s law in federal court and lost. In a 6-3 decision (Crawford v. Marion County Election Board) last year the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the state’s photo ID requirement “is amply justified by the valid interest in protecting the integrity and reliability of the electoral process” and that it could not “conclude that the statute imposes excessively burdensome requirements on any class of voters.”

[Reason]

The vote fraud we need to worry about doesn't have anything to do with people.

It's the manipulation of the machines.