Tennessee appeals court upholds state voter ID law

[JURIST] The Tennessee Court of Appeals [official website] rejected [opinion, PDF] a challenge to the state's voter identification law [SB 16, PDF] Thursday while upholding the validity of Memphis public library cards as acceptable forms of voter ID. The state had argued that the Memphis library is not an entity of the state as defined in the law as an approved provider of acceptable forms of photo ID. In examining the intent of the legislature the court ruled that allowing...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2012/10/tennessee-appeals-court-upholds-state-voter-id-law.php

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