“Picture ID rule raises fear about voter exclusion”

See this report from Michigan.
The contrast between how Michigan is handling poor voters who don’t have ID and Indiana (subject of the Crawford case, currently the subject of a cert petition) is stark. In Michigan, voters who are poor and don’t have an id will simply fill out an affidavit at the polling place and be allowed to vote. Though the Indiana law allows someone to file an “indigency affidavit” in lieu of producing identification, the process is burdensome. A poor voter in Gary, for example, would have to cast a provisional ballot in a polling place, then make a separate trip within 10 days to file an affidavit in the Lake County seat of Crown Point, a 30-minute car ride away. There’s no public transportation or government subsidy to get the voter there. More on Indiana’s law here.

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