BREAKING News: U. S. Supreme Court Agrees With Me, Finds That Voter Identification Cards Are NOT Like Poll Taxes.

Earlier on this blog, I had taken a different view from others who suggested that voter id cards were like poll taxes. Today a splintered 6 to 3 U. S. Supreme Court has agreed with me, finding that to be the case, as the Court has approved some states' -- like Indiana -- requirements that voters show registration ID cards before casting their votes.

The case is, CRAWFORD ET AL. v. MARION COUNTY ELECTION BOARD ET AL, 07-21 (2008).

The Court, "in affirming the Seventh Circuit declin[ation] to judge the law by the strict standard set for poll taxes in Harper v. Virginia Bd. of Elections, 383 U. S. 663," found that "even handed restrictions" protecting the "integrity and reliability of the electoral process itself" provided "[v]alid neutral justifications for a nondiscriminatory law, such as SEA 483 [the subject Indiana law], [which] should not be disregarded simply because partisan interests may have provided one motivation for the votes of individual legislators."