New voter ID laws causing trouble  5:00 PM, Sep 28, 2012   |  
 comments   • Share   • Print   • - A A A +  (NBC) - The right
to vote is at the center of legal battles underway in states
across the country.  Voters are set to encounter new stricter
requirements affecting who can cast a ballot, and when.  More
than a dozen new laws that require voters to have photo ID to
cast a ballot are prompting outrage.  In Pennsylvania Friday
voters shared horror stories of trying to comply with a new
photo ID requirement.  "It took me days just to get my ID,"
Lakeesha Panel complained.  The law has been tied up in court
for months.  A commonwealth judge says he'll likely uphold most
of it, but soften the photo ID requirement for this election
only.  South Carolina's new photo ID requirement is in in
federal court.  Judges already rejected similar laws passed in
Texas and Wisconsin.  Voters in 31 states, many with Republican
majorities, will face some type of voter ID requirement this
election.  "It looks like Republican