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April 19, 2006
 
 

Judge to ACLU: Get Over It - Voter ID Is Constitutional


"Federal judges normally don't employ phrases like 'get over it' in crafting their opinions. Yet, U.S. District Judge Sarah Evans Barker said as much last week in knocking down objections to Indiana's new voter ID law. 'Despite apocalyptic assertions of wholesale voter disenfranchisement, plaintiffs have produced not a single piece of evidence of any identifiable registered voter who would be prevented from voting,' Barker wrote. The judge also described a report written by an expert hired by the state Democratic Party as 'utterly incredible and unreliable.' Ouch," writes the Indianapolis Star in an editorial. The fact that Barker so readily saw through their arguments should have persuaded the plaintiffs -- the Indiana Democratic Party and the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana -- to slink away quietly. Unfortunately, an appeal is planned." More detail including the PDF opinion at the Jurist site. [FAIR comment: The voter ID requirement is similar to the one in Arizona's Prop. 200, meant to combat vote fraud by illegal aliens.]

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