The head of the U-S Justice Department's voting rights division told members of the NAACP that when he cleared Georgia's voter ID law, he didn't look at whether it violated the U-S Constitution. John Tanner told the annual meeting of Georgia's NAACP that his office can look at racial discrimination but not at other constitutional issues. The voting chief faced criticism after a memo revealed that he signed off on the Georgia law in 2005, over the objections of four of the five career employees who concluded it ran afoul of the U-S Voting Rights Law. Last month, a federal judge upheld a Georgia law which requires all voters to show a government issued photo ID at the ballot box.
