In a victory for election integrity, a judge in Missouri has upheld that state’s voter ID law, which requires voters to present a photo identification to cast a ballot.
A Missouri State law requiring a photo-ID to vote will remain intact.
Cole County Circuit Judge Jon Beetem ruled Monday that a lawsuit challenging the photo-ID requirement lacks standing.
In his ruling, Beetem said the individual plaintiffs did not provide enough “sufficient evidence” that they are harmed by the law’s voter ID provisions.
He also said the organizational plaintiffs, which includes the Missouri NAACP, “have not satisfied the test for organizational standing or harm to their proprietary interests.”
Beetem said even if the plaintiffs did have standing, lawmakers passed House Bill 1878 “in response to a 2016 Missouri constitutional amendment authorizing voter ID.”
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