Dallas Morning News.

More at National Review here.   “In the end, as this decision by the Georgia Supreme Court and all of the decisions by other courts show, the Bush administration’s legal judgment was correct. To paraphrase former Reagan Labor Department secretary Ray Donovan, which office do I go to get my reputation back (along with an apology)?”

The Department of Justice is heading to Phoenix to monitor elections there.

Linked is the full opinion written by Justice Hugh Thompson.  A defeat for Common Cause and the NAACP.  And so ends years of nasty contentious fighting.  All the arguments and posturing became as simple as this –  from the opinion:

“Nor do we find the photo ID requirement to be an impermissible qualification on voting. The 2006 Act does not deprive any Georgia voter from casting a ballot in any election. A registered voter who does not possess a photo ID and who desires to vote in person can obtain a free photo ID at one or more locations in the county of his or her residence.”

Here is Deputy Assistant Attorney General Julie Fernandes complaining about the law upheld today and other government issued photo identification laws and their “intersection with race” and affect on “people who traditionally face barriers to the polls.”  She concludes, “that’s what I’d call the denial of the right to vote.”

The Hattiesburg American has this editorial “Need for Voter ID is a no brainer.”

“A retired Superior Court judge Thursday ordered the former manager of the Mountain Gate Community Services District to stand trial on 10 criminal charges accusing him of voter fraud, perjury and fraudulent voter registration.”  Full story.

“Eliminate at-large districts of face costly lawsuits.” 

Atlantic City, NJ.

Atlanta Journal Constitution.  And so ends a multi-year saga. 

“As did virtually every other court that considered this issue, we find the photo ID requirement as implemented in the 2006 Act to be a minimal, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory restriction which is warranted by the important regulatory interests of preventing voter fraud,” Justice Hugh Thompson writes.