Shot Down in Flames

I forgot about this yesterday, but on Wednesday a federal judge declared the Georgia law requiring government issued ID to vote unconstitutional. While there is an appeal already filed, their primary is next Tuesday.

A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the Georgia law requiring voters to present government-issued ID cards violated the United States Constitution by discriminating against minorities, the poor and the elderly.

 

If the preliminary injunction imposed by Judge Harold L. Murphy of the United States District Court in Rome, Ga., is not overturned on appeal, it may keep the law from being enforced until this case is settled.

Last week, a state judge temporarily blocked the law, ruling that it violated voter protections in the State Constitution. On Wednesday, the State Supreme Court denied an emergency motion by Gov. Sonny Perdue to overturn the ruling.

The Voter ID law, passed in March 2005 by the Legislature, which is Republican controlled, originally required voters to have drivers’ licenses or other government identification or to buy a special state card.

You can find cheering about this at almost any decent sized leftist blog that covers national politics, which I find quite hypocritical as the majority of them cheered about how, despite the arguing over the vote count in the recent Mexican election, that election was “less corrupt that 2004 was”. Most of them even noted about how Mexico requires phot ID to vote.

Maybe they forgot that little factoid, but if a Mexican citizen, who is supposed so dirt poor that Americans should be made to be sympathetic to their illegal border crossing (according to the left, anyway), is able to get a government ID, than why can’t the richest poor people on the planet (members of the US lower income bracket) get off their butts and get one?

I think their Logic Train has missed Reason Station.