VOTER SUPREME
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case involving Indiana’s Voter ID law. The law requires voters show a government picture ID before they vote. State Democrats challenged the law saying it was unconstitutional and disenfranchised poor and minority voters. Republicans say it was necessary to prevent voter fraud. The court will hear the case early next year. The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the law last year.
It will be interesting to see this develop in the election backdrop next year. However, I can’t but help notice a little bit of hypocrisy by some of my Democratic friends who claimed voter ID would disenfranchise thousands of voters, even though they couldn’t produce one person who was turned away from the polls and on top of that they had more than 10,000 straight ticket voters in Marion County in last November’s election who apparently had no problem voting.
And to add insult to injury, they were quiet as church mice this past May when a number of polling places didn’t open in Marion County and at least 3500 identifiable voters were disenfranchised because their polling places never opened.
Court is now definitely in session.
