Opponents of election integrity lost the latest in a long string of cases recently when a three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated North Dakota’s voter ID requirement and tossed out an injunction that had been issued by a lower court.
In Brakebill v. Jaeger, Judge Steven Colloton, writing for the 2-to-1 majority, concluded that the supposed burden of obtaining an ID by the less than 0.5% of all eligible voters who do not already have one did not justify a statewide injunction that prevented the state from implementing the ID requirement.
North Dakota is the only state in the Union that does not require citizens to register to vote. You can show up on Election Day and vote in North Dakota—as long you show identification.
The state Legislature passed a series of laws delineating the forms of identification that could be used to vote.
Effective Aug. 1, 2017, North Dakota required either a driver’s license, a nondriver’s identification card issued by the state Department of Motor Vehicles, or an “official form of identification issued by a tribal government to a tribal member residing in the state.”
Voter ID Opponents Lose Again. This Time in North Dakota.
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The Daily Signal
Vote Aqui by Erik Hersman is licensed under Flickr Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.