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Message: disenfranchise away

May 2, 2008

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SIX JUSTICES of the US Supreme Court dealt a major blow to voting rights and fair elections Monday, when they upheld an Indiana law requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls. This 2005 law supposedly combats fraud, but plaintiffs argued rightly that it makes voting harder for poor, elderly, and disabled citizens without photo IDs. (Full article: 457 words)

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