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The ACLU says that U.S. Supreme Court, in rebuffing its challenge to a requirement that voters have a government-issued identification, will harm eligible voters. In Connecticut, adoption of a similar regiment is deemed unlikely. In a 6-3 decision, the Court upheld two lower court decisions that approved the state's law requiring voters to present government-issued photo IDs in order to vote. The ACLU argued that the Indiana law creates an unconstitutional burden on voting rights. “Today's decision minimizes the very real burden that Indiana's voter ID law places on tens of thousands of eligible voters who lack a government-issued identification while accepting at face value Indiana's unsubstantiated claim of voter fraud,” said Ken Falk, Legal Director of the ACLU of Indiana and lead counsel on the case. Connecticut allows non-governmental identification. Adoption of a procedure like Indiana’s has been proposed from time to time, but Democrats, who have been cool the idea, have a commanding majority in both chambers of the General Assembly. Read more about the Indiana decision
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