Newsobserver.com reports: Georgia’s top election official said Wednesday that a photo ID bill
did not discourage voter participation or result in lower participation
among African-Americans in his state.  Brian Kemp, Georgia’s
secretary of state, expressed skepticism about warnings that if North
Carolina adopted a photo ID requirement, it would disenfranchise large
numbers of voters.  Since Georgia adopted its requirement that
voters show a photo ID at the polls in 2007, only 29,611 photo IDs had
been issued by the state of Georgia to voters lacking them.