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Jul 20, 2009 at 11:16 AM EST
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Jul 20, 2009 at 11:16 AM EST
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The League of Women Voters says new identification requirements for Indiana driver's licenses will make voting under the state's voter ID law more difficult.
The Bureau of Motor Vehicles will require people seeking driver's licenses or state ID cards to show birth certificates, Social Security cards or other documentation that proves who they are beginning Jan. 1.
The league says the new requirements add to the burden already imposed by the voter ID law, especially on groups such as the poor and elderly.
New arguments over the additional BMV requirements have been added to a lawsuit challenging the voter ID law that is pending before the Indiana Court of Appeals. The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the law, but the current lawsuit contends it violates the Indiana constitution.
