New Georgia Lawsuit Against Gov’t Photo-ID Law

On August 16, a new lawsuit was filed against Georgia’s law, requiring that voters at the polls show a government Photo-ID in order to vote. Young v Billups, 4:07-cv-163-HLM. Here is the complaint. The plaintiffs, two individuals who do not possess any such ID, and who cannot easily obtain a free state ID because of difficulty in traveling to the government office that furnishes such ID, first attempted to intervene in an older federal lawsuit on the same issue. However, the judge ruled that it was too late for them to intervene. Therefore, they filed their own lawsuit. The original federal lawsuit has a hearing in federal court in Rome, Georgia, on August 22. The original case is Common Cause v Billups, 4:05-cv-201.


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