Indiana's new voter identification requirement could make casting ballots such a chore that some people could be discouraged from voting, Democratic Party attorneys argue in new court filings.
Requiring voters to present a government-issued photo ID at polling places unfairly affects the poor, minorities, people with disabilities and the elderly who are more likely to lack driver's licenses, lawyers for the Democrats wrote in a brief filed Wednesday in federal court that asks the Judge Sarah Evans Barker to throw out the law.
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Democratic attorneys William Groth and Geoffrey Lohman wrote, making repeated trips to the Bureau of Motor Vehicles and other agencies to obtain documents to prove their identity would cost potential voters money for gas, fees and lost pay they likely cannot afford and discourage many people from voting.
All of this, they argued, is required to combat a problem that the state has no solid evidence exists.
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