Reply #1: Supreme Court to hear photo ID law in January. Not sure if FL is one of them.

[madfloridian]

http://thegate.nationaljournal.com/2007/09/voter_id_case_to_be_decided_be.php

"It's not too difficult to guess which party appointed which judge. Election law experts frequently point out that the voter ID debate has startlingly little to do with facts. Part of the reason is voter ID laws are a fairly new phenomenon, arising in part because of the 2000 Florida disaster and in part as a reaction to rapidly changing voter demographics. Election fraud, the frequent rallying cry of Republicans, is designed to keep blacks and other minorities traditionally affiliated with Democrats off the rolls, Democrats contend. The mostly GOP effort to keep ex-cons from voting seems to bolster this suspicion.

Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Louisiana, Ohio and South Dakota have statutes requiring or requesting photo ID. With the exception of maybe Hawaii and Ohio, these states have swelling black and Latino populations. Opponents of voter ID laws frequently cite evidence, much of it anecdotal, that Spanish-speaking, Native American and other minority voters are turned away or warned not to show up without photo ID. (Georgia's law is headed for the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, but of course is bound to whatever the Supremes decide.)"