The Columbus Dispatch: Georgia not allowed to require voter IDs
The same federal judge who threw out Georgia’s voter ID law last year blocked the state yesterday from enforcing its revised law during this year’s elections...
U.S. District Judge Harold Murphy’s ruling, which he delivered orally from the bench, was much broader, also including the Nov. 7 general elections and any runoffs.
If the rulings stand, Georgia voters will not have to show a government-issued photo ID to cast a ballot this year. The state’s primary election — which would have been the first election for which the IDs were required — is Tuesday.
Murphy said the state’s latest attempt to require photo IDs for voters discriminated against people who don’t have driver’s licenses, passports or other government IDs.
"That is the failure of this legislation as it stands," he said.
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