Supreme Court upholds photo ID law for voters in Indiana

AP ^ | Apr 28 | MARK SHERMAN

[Aristotelian]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has ruled that states can require voters to produce photo identification without violating their constitutional rights. The decision validates Republican-inspired voter ID laws.

The court vote 6-3 to uphold Indiana's strict photo ID requirement. Democrats and civil rights groups say the law would deter poor, older and minority voters from casting ballots.

[Clear Rivers]

I know Democrats have registered dead folks in the past. So allot of new voter cards will look like this.

[longtermmemmory]

Provisional Ballots will not become the fraud source. Interestingly, it creats an ID paper trail for the person testifying under oath.

[MIT-Elephant]

Don’t count on it. All I need to consider is two pieces of evidence:

1. Shamnesty

2. McLame-Feingold’s unconstitutional campaign finance reform that was upheld. A huge mistake by Pres Bush to sign that piece of garbage, and a flat-wrong decision by the SCOTUS. What part of the Constitution did the Justices not read when deciding that case?

These are McCain’s advocacies. I’m not excited to see his justices.

[longtermmemmory]

It is worth noting that the federal PACER court system has court papers available online for a fee. Pennies per page view yes, but it is all charged.

In fact in some districts, attorneys are required to register for the paperless system and have to file all documents via electronic filing.

This also means that these electronic orders have the full legal effect of the hardcopy.

I think your view is very sustainable by current technology. The real issue is that we are going to have to move to a full “data entry at birth” system. Finger and handprints of all babies.

[Lazamataz]

I can’t wait to read the dissenting opinions.

Ginsberg: "While I agree with the law, in theory, I must dissent, because this would undermine voter fraud and multiple voting for a single voter -- both, time honored Democrat traditions. With voter ID, this important, responsible, liberal tradition may be impinged. If this happens to too great a measure, I urge liberals to take over America by force and show those damned Republicans what a concentration and death camp really looks like."

[Towed_Jumper]

I know that in the last primary in Arizona (Nov07), in which I voted, everyone had to show some sort of state-issued photo ID. The lines were long but just in the general chit chat among the people waiting to vote, not one person said anything negative about having to show ID -—he!!, it's just common sense!

[BrigidZ]

Agreed. Libs don’t like laws. I don’t like illegals getting State IDs - and the people allowed to vote are not even checked for ID (that’s the MAJOR problem) we don’t’ need another system (i.e. Real ID) we need to enforce the laws we have.... ;)

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

[Jacquerie]

So who are you going to vote for in November? McCain or the Obamabeast?

[MBB1984]

Neither, as both are leftists and don’t share my principles and values. I will either vote third party or write in a candidate.

[ridesthemiles]

It negates the lefts contention that the poor and minorities are too stupid to know how to obtain an ID. This could be the end of the Democrats best strategy”Vote early and vote often””

Poor, Old, and many others the Dimorats call disenfranchised have aslways had ID to get a job- write a check, etc.
This has been a straw argument from the git-go.

[StormEye]

" In my personal opinion, all voters should be fingerprinted the first time they register, we have the technology to do so, heck, you don't even need to get ink on your fingers now with the electronic machines they have. Then, at each polling place, instead of spending valuable dollars on useless electronic voting machines they could purchase finger print readers, with all the voters of that precinct loaded into the reader, you come up to vote, let is scan your prints and viola, you are identified as either a valid voter or someone bent on fraud(or maybe an honest mistake). The main thing to do, besides photo ID, is to stop Absentee voting except for the most extreme cases, and each(absentee) voter must be fingerprinted the first time and the finger prints renewed at 2 year intervals.

Just a few common sense ways to reduce(you can never eliminate it entirely)voter fraud."

I agree with everything you've said here. Finger prints along with a photo to go with the finger print on a secure database that can only be used to identify voters at election time. Each state would have the exact same system. Perhaps even raising the voting age to twenty-one in federal elections would help eliminate a lot of election fraud from the college age crowd. Also, eliminating the absentee ballot except for the military would help.