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Ruling may spur more voter ID laws
USA TODAY, April, 2008 by Joan Biskupic and Richard Wolf
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WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court's rejection Monday of a challenge to Indiana's strict voter-identification law gives the green light to other states considering laws that would force voters to show a photo ID before casting a ballot.
The 6-3 decision also is likely to spur new litigation over photo ID laws, which states say prevent fraud and challengers contend unconstitutionally keep people from the polls. The disputes have been stridently partisan: Republicans consistently push voter ID laws, and Democrats oppose them.
Voting experts, including analyst Tim Storey at the National Conference of State Legislatures, say they do not expect many states to join Indiana, Georgia and Florida, now the only states with such a photo mandate, before the November election. "The debate about voter ID has simmered and boiled over for the last six years," Storey said. "Many states have dealt with it."
Yet Storey said the ...
