Dems, ACLU bemoan anti-vote fraud law

Democrats challenge new Mo. voter ID law

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Officials in Missouri's two largest cities filed a lawsuit Monday to block a new state law requiring voters to show photo identification.

Under the law, voters starting this November will need a photo ID issued by either the state of federal government, such as a driver's license, to cast a regular ballot. Those lacking IDs can cast provisional ballots, which would count if their signatures matched those on file with election authorities.

Republican Gov. Matt Blunt has praised the new law as a way to build public trust in elections.

But the Democratic leaders in St. Louis and Kansas City who sued say the law violates a state constitutional provision against imposing costs on local governments without providing state funding. Their lawsuit seeks a permanent injunction blocking the law from being enforced and class-action status.

"Our overall concern is that the new law is going to leave people out who want to vote, who deserve to vote and who are qualified to vote," said Anthony Rothert, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri, whose group announced the lawsuit.

The lawsuit says implementing the new law would cost the Kansas City area's Jackson County alone $470,000 to mail notices to voters and add the extra equipment and Election Day staffing and training.

Republican state Sen. Delbert Scott, who sponsored the legislation, said election officials already send out voter cards and the law provides for free photo IDs that voters can obtain before Election Day.(emphasis ours).

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Oh.

What a surprise.

The proponents of "Motor Voter" and drivers licenses for illegals are threatened by the smallest initiatives that might ensure that ONLY REGISTERED VOTERS vote! This law won't even guarantee that the voters are actual citizens, merely that they are who they say they are.

Ya see, folks, for all their bellyaching about "stolen elections" and kook conspiracy theories involving Diebold, these people RELY on voter fraud for electoral success.

The 2004 election was NOT stolen in Ohio.

But it was DAMN NEAR stolen in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Minnesota.