Democratic Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton on Thursday vetoed a bill that would have required voters to provide photo identification to cast votes.

Dayton cited a lack of broad bi-partisan support for the bill and its potential as a $23 million unfunded mandate on local governments in part for his veto. The Republican-led Legislature had sent the bill to him on Monday.

Supporters had argued the bill would strengthen the integrity of the election system in Minnesota.

Dayton said he did not believe voter fraud to be a significant problem in Minnesota and that the reason most often cited for requiring photo identification, felons voting, would not be resolved by the bill.

Immigrants, homeless persons and other residents of San Francisco who often encounter difficulty receiving common services were given respite today in the form of citywide identification cards, according to Supervisor Tom Ammiano's office. By a 10-1 vote,

The City of San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted last week to issue municipal identification cards to city residents, regardless if they are in the country legally. But an immigration reform activist who lives in the Bay Area says the city has more im

An illegal immigrant has been arrested on charges he used a stolen ID to get a job he held in Sarasota for nearly a year, the Manatee County Sheriff's Office reports. Emilio Perez-Ramirez, 34, became a suspect when the IRS notified a man in Texas that som

Six suspected illegal immigrants were arrested after police said they had 150 fake identification cards. Belmont County deputies pulled the van over on Interstate 70 East near Morristown late Friday for a traffic violation. A search of the vehicle yielded

Buffeted by criticism, the architect of an alternative plan to penalize employers for hiring illegal immigrants has revised his proposal. The new version of the initiative, filed Tuesday, still provides businesses with absolute immunity from charges of hi

The Mexican Consulate in Texas, which has been at war with Irving city officials over their crackdown on illegal aliens, says it now wants to send mobile units into the city to deliver identification cards to try to save the illegals from arrest. "If they

Social-service advocacy groups are fighting legislation to require Pennsylvanians to provide proof of U.S. citizenship before receiving government benefits because they believe the bill would deny critical services to the poor, the elderly and domestic-vi

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency on Tuesday proposed a partnership with North Carolina to help identify and deport illegal immigrants charged with crimes in the state.

Spitzer’s been droning on about the “politics of fear” and his own glimmering moral superiority in trying to document the undocumented but his own party is starting to get nervous. One Republican assemblyman claims that you can’t legally give lice

Tom Fitton, president of the conservative Judicial Watch, says the cards "raise the specter of local governments conspiring with illegals to help them stay here." "In the least, they undermine federal law," he says, "and at worst, they violate the law."

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to decide whether voter identification laws unfairly deter the poor and minorities from voting, stepping into a contentious partisan issue in advance of the 2008 elections. The justices will hear arguments ea

MANCHESTER, Conn. -- The managing editor of the Journal Inquirer newspaper is asking the state Freedom of Information Commission to order New Haven officials to disclose the names of applicants for controversial municipal identification cards. The ID card

Drug trafficking. Gang activity. Identity theft. These are a few of the crimes that would prompt city police to call federal immigration agents, under an almost-approved new city policy.

ATLANTA -- Local elections in 23 counties ran without a hitch on Tuesday in the biggest test yet of the state's new law requiring a photo ID to cast a ballot, election officials said. "I didn't notice anything different," said Jennifer Rivers of South Fu