But an attorney hired by the state argued the law is constitutional and common sense.
The two sides took 20 minutes each to make their case before Georgia’s highest court. A similar case in federal court ended with the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals upholding the law last year.
The party also sued in state court. In April of this year, a Fulton County judge also ruled the law was permissible, setting up the appeal pending before the seven justices of the Supreme Court.
“The (state) Constitution says you cannot be denied the right to vote if you are registered,” Democratic lawyer Emmet Bondurant told the justices.
The Constitution doesn’t give the legislature authority to provide other reasons for preventing someone from casing a ballot, he argued.
But Mark Cohen, on behalf of the state, said no one has been denied the right to vote because of the 2006 voter-ID law.
“Not one Georgia has been located in all that time who could not vote due to this law,” he said.
Right wingers are afraid that left wingers are voting in the names of dead people thereby offsetting the right wings Diebold back door tricks. Seems only fair that we also get paper proof of how we vote so maybe we can stop that right wing Diebold mess. Yes I know they changed the name but the machines are still the same.
that is the comment of the day!