We are all too well aware of the fact that every vote counts and in a presidential election year that looms large on the horizon. Voters in Indiana have the strictest voter identification law on the books. A 61-year old woman is at the heart of a case that will be heard by the Supreme Court on Wednesday. A decision should be handed down by late June, in time to affect the November elections.

“In April 2006, a federal judge upheld Indiana’s law on voter identification, the strictest in the nation, saying there was no evidence that it would prevent any voter from having his ballot counted.”

“But on Election Day last November, Valerie Williams became that evidence, according to lawyers in a case that will be argued before the Supreme Court on Wednesday. After Ms. Williams grabbed her cane that day and walked into the polling station in the lobby of her retirement home to vote, as she has done in at least the last two elections, she was barred from doing so.”
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