League of Women Voters was into SC voter ID suit

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A second group wants participate in a legal challenge to South Carolina’s voter identification law.

The League of Women Voters on Monday asked a three-judge federal panel for permission to take part in the lawsuit.

South Carolina has sued U.S. Attorney General, Eric Holder over the Department of Justice’s rejection of the requirement that all voters have a form of government-issued photo identification. The Justice Department blocked the law in December, saying it could keep tens of thousands of the state’s minorities from casting their ballots.

Earlier this month, the judicial panel reviewing the case allowed the American Civil Liberties Union to play a role in the suit. Both the ACLU and the League of Women Voters want to enter the case on the side of the federal government.

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