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Even Stevens Agrees – States Have Right To Know Who Votes

J.J. Jackson* | April 30, 2008 

In a blow to perpetrators of voter fraud everywhere, the Supreme Court has settled the issue of identifying voters as they head to the polls to cast their votes.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court ruled Monday that states can require voters to produce photo identification without violating their constitutional rights, validating Republican-inspired voter ID laws.

In a splintered 6-3 ruling, the court upheld Indiana’s strict photo ID requirement, which Democrats and civil rights groups said would deter poor, older and minority voters from casting ballots. Its backers said it was needed to prevent fraud.

It was the most important voting rights case since the Bush v. Gore dispute that sealed the 2000 election for George W. Bush. But the voter ID ruling lacked the conservative-liberal split that marked the 2000 case.

The law “is amply justified by the valid interest in protecting ‘the integrity and reliability of the electoral process,’” Justice John Paul Stevens said in an opinion that was joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Anthony Kennedy. Stevens was a dissenter in Bush v. Gore in 2000.

Justices Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas also agreed with the outcome, but wrote separately.

Justices Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and David Souter dissented, just as they did in 2000.

When someone as liberal as Stevens agrees, you know you made a strong case. This will certainly not sit well with liberals who have been flooding the polls with illegitimate dead and multiple vote casting voters for years in order to mess up our Republic.

States and their citizens, as members of this Republic, certainly have a vested interest in making sure that the system of elections works properly and is not tampered with by fraudulent votes and there is nothing wrong with identifying people who come to vote an verify they are who they say they are. By extension they naturally have the right to ask that voters identify themselves as they enter the polls.

The only people that disagree with this fact are people who are trying to commit fraud in the system. And you can bet they are going to yell quite loudly and stomp their feet.

Now that the Supreme Court has ruled in favor of an interest in identifying voters as who they say they are, expect States that were holding back on such regulations, out of fear that the liberals on the Court would win out, to move forward.

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