On June 20, the Indiana League of Women Voters filed a lawsuit in state court, alleging that the Indiana law requiring voters at the polls to show government photo-ID violates the Indiana Constitution. The Indiana Constitution sets for the requirements to become a voter, and doesn’t mention anything about ID. Here is the complaint. The case is League of Women Voters of Indiana v Rokita, Marion County Superior Court.
Gee – does ANY State mention voter I.D. stuff in its State constitution — going back to 1776 ???
Answer — NOT likely.
Once upon a time – folks knew local folks — with illegal voting being a major felony.
Well it still is a major felony. While I am not against voter id, I have a difficult time seeing what it would solve.
But more to the point. Doesn’t this case suffer from the same problem as the Supreme Court case. Which one of these women have had their rights rights violated. If so, how is this different from a store violating me to purchase a TV, or me being violated to go up on the Sears Tower.
While I don’t think ID’s will even come close to offering the security the conservatives promise, it certainly is not the violation liberals argue. My fear is the ID will become false assurance and may increase voter fraud.
I know in my state, WI, if your vote is contested it is ended on the spot with an ID. So, in many ways I think the discussion is backwards. The question should not be if requiring an ID is an obstacle to voting, but rather if state ID fees and other requirements are. In my state getting an ID could cost over $150. At least in Indiana they don’t have such enormous fees.
What’s the problem with giong back to the “original way” of voting, whereby you would identify yourself to the elections clerk and tell him/her outloud who you were voting for, you vote was hand-written and then a hand count was done of each vote.
All elections in the USA were held that way until the late 1800’s.