Professor Ronald Krotoszynski says recent Voting Rights Act decisions may make it more difficult to prove that Alabama’s Voter I.D. Law harkens back to Jim Crow.
In Shelby vs. Holder, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a provision in the Voting Rights Act of 1965, making it more difficult to prove intent.
“The problem that litigation of this sort is likely to run up against is showing intentional discrimination by local officials with respect to this vouching system where two election officials can sign an affidavit saying that they know someone is a registered voter even if the voter doesn’t have a photo I.D.,” Krotoszynski told Alabama Public Radio. “In the absence of proof of a sort of systematic and intentional discrimination, the claim is unlikely to have much purchase, I’m afraid.”
For more, read “Election 2014 – Voter I.D. Law.”