Supposedly enacted to prevent voter fraud, the Indiana's Supreme Court decision to require photo ID to vote far more resembles modern a Jim Crow law than anything else.

Poplicks breaks it down thusly:

"The big deal is that 20% of black voters in Indiana do not currently have a valid photo ID.

The big deal is that almost none of the enacted or proposed Voter ID laws provide measures to help voters obtain the necessary identification or offer alternative ways of voting.

The big deal is that these laws are being passed despite no nationwide widespread evidence of fraud caused by voter impersonation. (In Indiana, there was literally not one reported incident of fraud, which the Supreme Court acknowledged.)

The big deal is that our courts seem interested in a nonexistent form of voter fraud, but could not care less about more widespread evidence of voter fraud in Florida (2000), Ohio (2004), or the New York primary (2008)."

And so on. Go read: poplicks.com/2008/04/our...ow-laws.html