J.D. Pooley/Getty Images(LITTLE ROCK, Ark.) — The battle over whether states should make it mandatory for people to show photo IDs before voting intensified Wednesday after the Arkansas Supreme Court deemed that the law in that state was unconstitutional.
The GOP-Legislature passed a photo ID law in 2013 and then overrode a veto by Democratic Governor Mike Beebe.
Later, a lower court ruled that the law was invalid because it forced another “qualification for voting” on Arkansas residents.
In its ruling, the state’s high court sided with that decision. Meanwhile, it’s unclear whether the law will be in effect when early voting begins next Monday. The general election is November 4.
Earlier this week, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Texas’s voter ID law while last week, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a similar law in North Carolina but issued a stay on Wisconsin’s law requiring a photo ID to vote.
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