Carded at polls: No photo ID, no vote

[Poiuyt]

Carded at polls: No photo ID, no vote
Voters who use mail-in ballots are not required to show photo ID


updated 2:08 p.m. CT, Wed., Jan. 23, 2008
There's the poor, 32-year-old mother of seven who says it would cost her at least $50 to vote in person. There's also the 92-year-old woman who's voted for decades in the same polling place, but now can't vote there because she let her driver's license expire when her eyesight began to fail.

These folks live in Indiana, home of the country's most restrictive photo-identification voter law. The U.S. Supreme Court is now scrutinizing whether that statute violates the first and 14th amendments, in the most contentious legal battle over voting since the high court issued a bitterly divided decision eight years ago that stopped Florida's recount and handed the presidency to George W. Bush.

If the law is upheld, voting rights advocates fear it will encourage conservative lawmakers across the country to enact equally restrictive measures. The high court's decision is expected in the summer - leaving time to impact November's general election.

Opponents, most of them Democrats, say requiring photo ID at the polls disproportionately affects the poor, the elderly and minorities - the most likely to lack photo identification.

more -

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22806147/

[IndianaJones]

1. This thing makes me sick. I hope this will be struck down. nt.

[JCMach1]

4. this amounts to an illegal 'poll tax'

If they want to continue this program, the state should provide ID (including Driving Licenses) for free...

[midnight]

2. Welcome to McCorporate America where we will be taxed to

think.

[madrchsod]

3. if i want to vote at my courthouse before "super tuesday"

i have to show at photo...if i go to my regular place to vote my next door neighbor checks the big book...