Injunction Sought Against New Georgia ID Law

Civil rights groups filed a motion for a preliminary injunction yesterday in Common Cause/Georgia v. Billups, seeking to stop a law passed by the Georgia legislature earlier this year requiring voters to show photo identification in order to have their votes counted. The PI brief may be found here. As I've previously discussed here and here, this follows the district court's order last October, issuing a preliminary injunction against a prior version of Georgia's ID bill. The Georgia legislature passed the new version in January of this year, and it was subsequently precleared by the Justice Department.

Posted by tokajid at July 6, 2006 05:35 AM