Gore Debacle News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Justice correspondent. pete joining us with a closer look at some of these voter i.d. measures that states have been looking at and implementing around the country. >> craig, in fact, mississippi voters are trying to decide today whether they will also impose the same requirement in their states. it was three years ago that the u.s. supreme court said that requiring voters to show a government-issued photo i.d. at the polls did not violate the constitutionally protected try to vote. and once the court made that ruling, many other states jumped on the bandwagon. the push for voter i.d. laws cam...

The requirement. they say doing so it did not unconstitutionally restrict the right to vote. now more states are doing what mississippi is trying to decide they want to follow. the push of voter i.d. laws came after the 2000 bush/gore debacle in indiana. the first state to require that registered voters show government issued photo identification like a driver's license to cast a ballot. voters without one could still be counted but only if they produce a photo i.d. within a few days. since the u.s. supreme court upheld the law a few years ago the idea has spread and six other states have pass...