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NAACP Loses 11th Circuit Fight Against Alabama Voter ID Law
This is good news, as it applies to absentee ballots as well as in-person voting. The key for these state voter ID laws is to make them neutral and not look like you are targeting a group, specifically minorities or the elderly. And courts including SCOTUS have rejected the argument that voter ID requirements are per se discriminatory.
I suspect that fairly soon minority communities are going to rise up against organizations like the NAACP and the Democratic Party and demand that they stop treating them as stupid people who need a nanny state to protect them and assist them with simple tasks such as getting an ID card.An Alabama law requiring voters to present photo ID when casting in-person or absentee ballots is not unconstitutional or racially discriminatory, the 11th Circuit ruled Tuesday, dismissing a lawsuit filed by the state chapter of the NAACP.
A divided three-judge panel of the Atlanta-based appeals court rejected arguments by the Alabama NAACP that requiring a photo ID to vote violates the Voting Rights Act and the 14th and 15th Amendments, bringing an end to the four-year legal battle over the law.
Alabama’s Photo Voter Identification Law “was driven by the need to address well-documented and public cases of voter fraud that occurred in Alabama” and presents only a “minimal burden” to Alabama’s voters, U.S. Circuit Judge Elizabeth Branch, an appointee of President Donald Trump, wrote on behalf of the majority.
Branch was joined in the majority by Senior U.S. Circuit Judge Ed Carnes, a George H.W. Bush appointee. The two judges found that the Alabama NAACP did not provide any evidence to show that the law was intended to discriminate against Black and Latino voters.
In a dissenting opinion, U.S. District Judge Darrin Gayles, a Barack Obama appointee sitting by designation from the Southern District of Florida, noted that in-person voter fraud is “virtually non-existent” and wrote that Alabama “likely designed a law to cure a problem that did not exist.”
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Originally Posted by DGUtley
