Reply #1: AL: Court should uphold voter photo ID law

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Court should uphold voter photo ID law

Friday, January 04, 2008

THE U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide whether the electoral process deserves as much protection as banking, air travel and a number of other routine activities in a modern society.

Next week the nation's highest court will hear arguments in a dispute over the constitutionality of Indiana's voter identification law. As a safeguard against fraud, Indiana requires voters to present a state photo ID at the polls. Georgia passed a similar voter ID law in 2005.

Alabama has a weak voter ID law that allows voters to present one of about two dozen forms of identification. The Press-Register editorial board agrees with most Americans that states should have strong voter identification requirements.

A survey conducted by two professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that 77 percent of respondents favored voter ID laws. Support for ID requirements designed to prevent voter fraud cuts across racial, geographical and ideological lines, the survey showed.

http://www.al.com/opinion/press-register/index.ssf?/base/opinion/1199441744138260.xml&coll=3

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