Common Cause/Georgia v. Billups

ORDER

MURPHY, District Judge.

This case is an action to have the photo identification (“Photo ID”) requirement set forth in Senate Bill 84 (“The 2006 Photo ID Act”) declared unconstitutional both on its face and as applied, and to enjoin its enforcement on the ground that it imposes an unauthorized, unnecessary, and undue burden on the fundamental right to vote of hundreds of thousands of registered Georgia voters, in violation of the Fourteenth and Twenty-Fourth Amendments to the federal Constitution, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C.A. § 1971(a)(2)(A) and (a)(2)(B)), and Section 2 of…