By Ross Balano, Midwest Voices Columnist 2008
Today the Supreme Court of the United States upheld Indiana’s voter identification law. In doing so it ruled that it is not unconstitutional to require a person to produce a photo I.D. in order to vote and that the state has a “valid interest” in deterring fraud.
The court rejected arguments against the Indiana law, considered the strictest in the country, and said that the law does not impose unjustified burdens on people who are old, poor or members of minority groups and less likely to have a drivers license or other acceptable photo identification.
The vote came down 6 to 3 in favor with John Paul Stevens writing the opinion and being joined by John Roberts, Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito while only the three most liberal justices, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, David Souter, and Steven Breyer dissented.
This is a welcome, common sense ruling by the court. Hopefully it will open the door for the Missouri law which had been struck down in the courts to be revived.
No person who is not a citizen should be allowed to vote and citizens only once each.
There have been accusations of voter fraud in the Kansas City and St. Louis areas in recent elections. Requiring a voter to show a photo I.D. is a small inconvenience to help insure the integrity of an election.
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"There have been accusations of voter fraud in the Kansas City and St. Louis areas in recent elections."
Keep in mind, the so-called "voter fraud" Balano references is voter-registration fraud, where people who were getting paid to register voters made up names or got them out of a phone book to defraud the organization paying them, community activist group ACORN. ACORN turned these folks in and they were indicted and convicted. (The timing of that indictment, just before the election, was a tad suspect, and was likely politically motivated, supplying right-wingers like Balano with bogus ammunition to sling)
Just keeping it real.
For the record, I've no real problem with requiring identification when voting, so long as it's easy and free for people to obtain such identification and legit voters aren't inconvenienced. However, is voter fraud in the form of unregistered folks voting a major problem? Not at all convinced it is -- I'm much more concerned with movement towards paperless electronic voting machines, because it makes it so much easier for real fraud to occur, with someone hacking in and altering the results, and no paper trail to prove otherwise. That's true disenfranchisement.
Supreme Court rules on Indiana ID issue when voting
Today's Supreme Court ruling that approves states' efforts to pass a voter identification law, now should be enacted within every state within the union. California should especially adopt a law requiring ID, because of a massive illegal immigration issue fermenting within it's borders. States with faint-hearted Governors, Mayor and city managers such as Los Angeles county who live under a overcast suspicion of voter fraud; specially when proposition 187 was resisted and dismissed without going to the upper courts. Millions of illegal aliens subsist in the border states and are sucking those states budgets dry, compliments of the parasite employers. It is all encompassing your Jobs and economic growth, energy independence, health care access, education and an overcrowded prison system. All these issues are impacted by the 12 to 30 million illegal immigration invasion.
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Way to go Supremes!
That should stop the tomb stone voting in St. Louis, and the voting of early and often in Osama Obama's home of Cook County IL.
Dad-burn, what will ACORN do now?
Oh my God
Ross, that ruling will hurt the democrat's old saying... "Vote early and vote often."
Oh, and you'll have Sanchez and the other wacko's at the Star getting their blood pressure raised because its not fair to the illegals.
Shame on you.