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  • Picture This: States Want Voters to Produce Photo IDs

    07/29/2005 4:17:58 PM PDT · by BellStar · 88 replies · 2,029+ views
    Cybercast News Service CNSNews.com ^ | July 29, 2005 | By Alexa Moutevelis
    The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was supposed to end the practice of subjecting black voters to literacy tests, poll taxes and intimidation. But one civil rights leader said the use of photo identification requirements in some states is a giant step backwards. U.S. Rep. John Lewis, a Georgia Democrat who marched for civil rights with Martin Luther King, Jr. in the 1960s, told Cybercast News Service that legislation recently passed in his home state requiring voters to provide photo IDs "is going back almost to the literacy tests; to tell people you must prove who you are [to polling...