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http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1020scotus-voterID20-ON.html

Supreme Court upholds Arizona's photo ID law for elections 

Amanda Crawford
The Arizona Republic
Oct. 20, 2006 03:44 PM


Arizona voters will have to present identification at the polls on Nov. 
7 after all.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday that Arizona can go ahead with 
requiring voters to present a photo ID, starting with next month's 
general election, as part of the Proposition 200 that voters passed in 
2004. The ruling overturns an Oct. 5 decision by the 9th Circuit Court 
of Appeals, which put the voter ID rules on hold this election cycle.

The Supreme Court on Friday did not decide whether the new voter ID 
rules are constitutional. That decision is still pending in federal 
district court. advertisement  
 
Instead, the court decided that the 9th Circuit made a procedural error 
by granting an injunction to put the new rules on hold without waiting 
for the district court to explain its reasons for not granting an 
injunction.

"The facts in these cases are hotly contested and 'no bright line 
separates permissible election-related regulation from unconstitutional 
infringements,' " the Justices wrote. "Given the imminence of the 
election and the inadequate time to resolve the factual disputes, our 
action today shall of necessity allow the election to proceed without an 
injunction suspending the voter identification rules."

The new voter ID rules were passed, in part, to keep illegal immigrants 
and other non-citizens from voting. Opponents have argued that legal 
voters, especially the poor and the elderly, might also be 
disenfranchised because of the rules.

In order to cast a ballot at the polls, voters must show a photo ID with 
current street address or two forms of identification, such as a utility 
bill or car registration, with name and street address. 

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