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    AZ AG asks Supreme Court to repeal recent voter ID ruling

    Published: 10.10.2006

    Goddard asks Supreme Court to repeal recent voter ID ruling
    By Howard Fischer
    CAPITOL MEDIA SERVICES

    PHOENIX -- The state will ask a justice of the nation's high court to let county election officials require voters to produce identification for next month's general election.

    Attorney General Terry Goddard said Tuesday legal papers will be given to Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, possibly by the end of the week, asking him to void an order by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals barring the state from enforcing the voter ID provisions of Proposition 200 while a legal challenge to them works its way through federal court.

    Goddard's move came as the full appellate court refused Tuesday to overturn a decision by two of its judges blocking the identification rules. The attorney general said that leaves the Supreme Court as the only opportunity for relief.

    His decision drew surprise from Nina Perales, the attorney for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund.

    "You're kidding," she told Capitol Media Services when informed of Goddard's decision. It was Perales who convinced the appellate court that allowing the state to require voters to provide identification would be a hardship on many Arizonans.

    But Goddard said he will argue to Kennedy that changing the identification rules now, just weeks before the election, would create a real hardship on the state.

    Goddard also dismissed Perales' concerns about the ID requirements causing problems at the polls. He said the rules "did not cause significant disruption" during last month's primary.

    Perales, however, said that misses the point.

    "There is an untold number of people who found out about these restrictions, realized they couldn't satisfy them, and didn't go to vote," she said. "There's also an untold number of people who presented (at the polls), saw the posters (about identification requirements) and didn't bother signing in but turned around and left at that point."

    Kennedy is only one of the nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. But as the "duty justice" for cases arising out of the Ninth Circuit he has the legal authority, by himself, to dissolve that court's order on an emergency basis.

    Proposition 200, approved by voters in 2004, requires people to prove they are U.S. citizens before they can register. And they must present certain acceptable forms of identification before they can cast a ballot -- usually one government-issued card with a photograph and address or two other forms of identification without pictures.

    In the lawsuit filed earlier this year, Perales said this amounts to discrimination because Latinos are less likely to have the kinds of ID required.

    The result, she said, would deny Latinos the right to vote, running afoul of federal voting rights laws.

    The case was consolidated with a separate lawsuit charging that the requirements discriminate against the poor who are less likely to have the required documents.

    U.S. District Court Judge Roslyn Silver refused to keep the rules from taking effect until she could hear the entire case. That allowed the Sept. 13 primary to be conducted under Proposition 200 rules.

    But the appellate judges, while not ruling on the merits of Perales' argument, decided last week to have the Nov. 7 general election conducted under the pre-200 rules.

    Goddard said that's not fair, as election workers would have to be retrained on what they can ask would-be voters. "In the time we have left it's virtually impossible to do that," he said.

    Perales said Goddard is ignoring the fact that elections in Arizona were conducted under the old rules "for years." She said many people who worked elections before will be at the polls next month.

    The appellate court ruling has provoked anger by many backers of Proposition 200.

    The latest manifestation is a planned rally at noon Friday at the state Capitol being organized by the Mohave County Minutemen. That group, which is not affiliated with the Minuteman Corps, is promoting "one hour of silence to express our rage" against the "treasonous Ninth Circuit court judges" who issued the order blocking enforcement of Proposition 200.

    The e-mail proposing the demonstration urges people to bring their own flag, their own gag and "exercise your 2nd amendment rights."

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    His decision drew surprise from Nina Perales


    Yea Perales, were going to stand up to you every step of the way.

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    In the lawsuit filed earlier this year, Perales said this amounts to discrimination because Latinos are less likely to have the kinds of ID required.

    The result, she said, would deny Latinos the right to vote, running afoul of federal voting rights laws.
    Why are Latinos less likely to have the required ID to vote? Any American citizen without a driver's license can go to their local DMV and get a photo ID card for $6.00 - $25.00, depending on the state of residence. As we all know, the cost of the ID is not really the issue anyway. Heck, Georgia inacted the same law and were going to issue the ID cards at no cost, but the law was struck down.

    The only people that should have a problem proving their citizenship are those people that are not American citizens.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MW
    In the lawsuit filed earlier this year, Perales said this amounts to discrimination because Latinos are less likely to have the kinds of ID required.

    The result, she said, would deny Latinos the right to vote, running afoul of federal voting rights laws.
    Why are Latinos less likely to have the required ID to vote? Any American citizen without a driver's license can go to their local DMV and get a photo ID card for $6.00 - $25.00, depending on the state of residence. As we all know, the cost of the ID is not really the issue anyway. Heck, Georgia inacted the same law and were going to issue the ID cards at no cost, but the law was struck down.

    The only people that should have a problem proving their citizenship are those people that are not American citizens.
    Amazing as it is.........these groups are using the COST as a HARDSHIP and getting away with it in court.
    Strange, isn't it, that OTHER groups of immigrants seem to figure it out and find the few dollars to get it done........but not the hispanics? It flies in the face of common sense.
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    We had this good letter to the editor in the Tucson Citizen this evening:

    Disenfranchisement explains election apathy
    Re: the Saturday Capsule Comment ("Confusion may follow ruling on voter ID"):
    The only confusion is over who is really disenfranchised. It is not the elderly and minorities, as you contend. It is the voters who voted for Prop. 200!
    We are the ones who have been disenfranchised. Our votes count for nothing. The voters speak, and the liberals shop again and again for a court on their side to nullify the will of the majority. No wonder there is so much voter apathy!
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    A lot of these so called poor ppl have no problem coming up with money for cigarettes, lottery tickets, and booze, yet they claim they can't afford an ID card.

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