Judge Blocks Enforcement of Georgia’s Voter ID Law

More judicial tyranny being foisted upon the will of the people.....

ATLANTA (AP) — With less than two weeks to go before the July 18 primary, a Superior Court judge on Friday issued a restraining order blocking enforcement of Georgia’s voter ID law.

“The Court finds the current statute unduly burdens the fundamental right to vote rather than regulate it and irreparable harm will result if the 2006 Photo ID law is not enjoined,” Fulton County Superior Court Judge Melvin Westmoreland wrote. Former Georgia Gov. Roy Barnes, a Democrat, had argued in court on Thursday that the law violates the state’s constitution, which guarantees the right to vote. Barnes said it would keep poor, elderly and minority voters from the polls.

Georgia’s new ID law requires that every voter who casts a a ballot in person provide a valid, government-issued photo ID. There is also a federal challenge pending to the state’s voter ID law. Arguments in that case are scheduled for Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Rome, Ga. Georgia’s Republican-led state Legislature first adopted a voter ID law in 2005, but a federal judge blocked its enforcement saying it amounted to an unconstitutional poll tax. Early this year, lawmakers amended the law to make the IDs free and to ensure they are available in each of the state’s 159 counties.

Bullsh!t, the ID is free and readily available. The only group of people it "unduly burdens" is the potential fraudsters who would seek to cast an illegal ballot.

BTW requiring an ID has never kept the aformentioned groups from cashing their SS or welfare checks now has it?