An Associated Press story entitled ID law called burden on voters reports that a lawsuit has been filed challenging Indiana’s recently passed voter identification law. The law requires state or federally issued identification. As I recall, during the session, the Republicans specifically rejected proposed amendments that would have permitted flexibility in permissible identification documents.
Democratic Party attorneys William Groth and Geoffrey Lohman wrote, making repeated trips to the Bureau of Motor Vehicles and other agencies to obtain documents to prove their identity would cost potential voters money for gas, fees and lost pay they likely cannot afford and discourage many people from voting.
All of this, they argued, is required to combat a problem that the state has no solid evidence exists.
The law that took effect July 1 does not apply to absentee voting, where fraud is well established, Groth and Lohman wrote.
Georgia’s voter ID law was ruled unconstitutional recently. I haven’t read the opinion in that case though, so I don’t know whether the same issues apply.
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