{"id":32442,"date":"2018-01-17T18:17:20","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T23:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=32442"},"modified":"2018-01-17T18:17:20","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T23:17:20","slug":"common-sense-shows-up-in-a-courtroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=32442","title":{"rendered":"Common Sense Shows Up In A Courtroom"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Daily Signal<\/a> is reporting today that Judge Scott Coogle, a United States<\/a> District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama<\/a>, has ruled that the Alabama<\/a> voter ID law<\/a> is constitutional.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

A federal judge in Alabama has thrown<\/a> out a lawsuit against the state\u2019s voter ID law, finding that the law doesn\u2019t prevent anyone from voting because \u201cnearly the entire population of registered voters in Alabama already possess a photo ID<\/a> that can be used for voting.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

For those who don\u2019t, obtaining a qualifying ID can be done \u201cwith little to no effort and no cost.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2011, the Alabama Legislature<\/a> passed a photo ID requirement for both in-person and absentee voting<\/a>. The law was enacted in an effort to strengthen voter confidence and to reduce the potential for voter fraud in the state.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Alabama law accepts seven different types of ID, including an Alabama driver\/non-driver\u2019s license, a photo ID card<\/a> issued by any state or the federal government, a U.S. passport, a student or employee ID, a military ID card, or a tribal ID card.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Voters can obtain a voter ID card from the state for free\u2014something that as of fall of 2017, only 33 voters in the entire state had requested. And voters who need a birth or marriage certificate to get an ID can get those for free, too.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In addition, even if voters show up at a voting booth without an ID, they can still vote if two election officials at the polling place positively identify them.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Those voting absentee are required to include a photocopy of their photo ID (in a separate envelope) when they mail in their ballot. Individuals without an ID can vote by provisional ballot<\/a>, and that ballot will be counted if they show the local county registrar an ID by the Friday after the election.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Unfortunately we live in a world where showing a photo ID has become a fact of life. When I go to the doctor’s office, I have to show a photo ID. If I board an airplane, I have to show a photo ID (and soon, as license requirements change in some states, a passport will be necessary). Anyone can easily get a photo ID, and states with photo ID requirements to vote will provide them to people at no cost.<\/p>\n

This is a common sense ruling. Hopefully it will stand and set an example for the rest of the states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Daily Signal is reporting today that Judge Scott Coogle, a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, has ruled that the Alabama voter ID law is constitutional. The article reports: … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[967,11367,11368,10339,2678],"class_list":["post-32442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alabama","tag-alabama-legislature","tag-id-card","tag-photo-id","tag-voter-id-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32443,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32442\/revisions\/32443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}