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: Legal Pad | LAU.S. Supreme Court OKs state voter ID law - won't affect CA but could affect election
By Jason Siegel
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld Indiana's law requiring voter's to bring government issued photo ID card, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
The ruling could have some effect on the 2008 presidential election in states with strict voter ID laws that includes Indiana, Arizona, Georgia and Florida, the Chronicle reported.
However, California won't likely be affected, 10 News reported. (WATCH) While similar voter ID bills are regularly proposed by Republican state legislators who claim it would stop election fraud, Democrats have rejected the bill, claiming many poor, disabled and elderly people would be deterred from voting.
Read more on the decision here
Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on April 29, 2008 (boomark / email).
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