From WMOT News
(2008-04-29)
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JEFFERSON CITY, MO
(KBIA) -
A ruling Monday by the U.S. Supreme Court upholding Indiana's voter I.D. law is not expected to revive a similar law struck down by the Missouri Supreme Court in 2006.
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The law required voters to present a photo I.D. as a means of preventing voter fraud. Democratic Attorney Don Downing, who led the challenge against the law two years ago, says the ruling in Missouri was based on the state constitution, and that the U.S. high court's ruling was based on the federal Constitution. But G.O.P. House Member Stanley Cox of Sedalia says the federal ruling could make it easier to pass another voter I.D. law:
"One of the arguments that happens on the floor of the House or Senate is people say, 'well, you know, what we're doing here doesn't even meet the requirements of the U.S. Constitution.'"
Cox says that argument is now nullified. But he also says it's too late to attempt to pass a new voter I.D. bill this year.
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