Restrictive voting laws tied up in court

[BlueToTheBone]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/restrictive-voting-laws-tied-up-in-court/2012/06/06/gJQAt1MaJV_story.html?wprss=rss_homepage&tid=obnetwork

Stricter ID laws and other controversial voting restrictions, passed this year by several Republican-controlled legislatures, are hitting legal roadblocks that could keep many of the measures from taking effect before the November elections.

Curbs on early voting, new ID requirements and last-minute efforts to rid voter lists of noncitizens have been met with vigorous opposition from the Justice Department and civil rights groups, and in some cases, the provisions have been blocked by federal or state judges.

“There has been a real push-back by the courts to these widespread efforts to restrict the vote,” said Wendy Weiser, director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, which opposes the new laws. “If those seeking to suppress the vote won round one, round two seems to be going to the voters.”

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Last year, new ID measures were introduced in 34 states and passed in Kansas, Mississippi, Rhode Island and Wisconsin. Alabama, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas tightened existing voter ID laws to require a photo ID. Legislation in five other states was vetoed by their governors, according to the National Council of State Legislatures.

Since then, two state judges in Wisconsin have ruled its voter ID law unconstitutional. A Missouri court threw out a ballot initiative that would have allowed voters to decide whether photo IDs should be required, calling the language “misleading.”

good article...gives me a bit of hope.

[Dawson Leery]

1. kick

[elleng]

2. Been wishing, hoping and praying . . .

[demosincebirth]

3. Your're not the only one. Many of us, out here, are doing the same thing.

[demgrrrll]

4. Off topic but I love Dusty.

[davidpdx]

5. Isn't it funny most of those states are deep red ones

With the exception of Wisconsin and RI. I have started calling them voter repression laws.