Hopes for Voter Fraud in Indiana Dashed by Supreme Court
AP: Supreme Court Upholds Photo ID Law For Voters in Indiana
The case concerned a state law, passed in 2005, that was backed by Republicans as a way to deter voter fraud. Democrats and civil rights groups opposed the law as unconstitutional and called it a thinly veiled effort to discourage elderly, poor and minority voters — those most likely to lack proper ID and who tend to vote for Democrats.
There is little history in Indiana of either in-person voter fraud — of the sort the law was designed to thwart — or voters being inconvenienced by the law’s requirements.
“We cannot conclude that the statute imposes ‘excessively burdensome requirements’ on any class of voters,” [Justice John Paul] Stevens said.
