Arizona: governor vetos voter ID bill
The Arizona Daily Sun reports: Gov. Janet Napolitano vetoed legislation Friday to bar some people who show up at the polls without identification from voting.
Napolitano said the measure, SB 1118, is illegal because it violates the federal Help America Vote Act. She said that "could result in properly registered Arizona citizens being denied the right to vote."
But Secretary of State Jan Brewer said Napolitano is wrong.
She said nothing in federal law requires anyone who shows up at any poll without any ID to be given a ballot. She said the governor was making a political rather than a legal claim. -- Arizona Daily Sun-
Perhaps Gov. Napolitano was thinking of this provision of the Help America Vote Act:
§ 15482. Provisional voting and voting information requirements
(a) Provisional voting requirements. If an individual declares that such individual is a registered voter in the jurisdiction in which the individual desires to vote and that the individual is eligible to vote in an election for Federal office, but the name of the individual does not appear on the official list of eligible voters for the polling place or an election official asserts that the individual is not eligible to vote, such individual shall be permitted to cast a provisional ballot as follows: ...