A Missouri attorney is hoping to keep a proposed constitutional amendment allowing a photo identification mandate for Missouri voters off the ballot in 2012.
An attorney backing the lawsuit said the suit contents the ballot summary approved by legislators is misleading. The suit asks a judge to keep the measure off the 2012 ballot.
The lawsuit was filed in Cole County Circuit Court on Wednesday.
The Republican-led Legislature earlier this year passed a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow a photo ID mandate and set parameters for a potential early voting period. If voters adopt the amendment, a separate law still would be needed to implement the provisions.
A similar bill was also passed by the legislature but vetoed by Governor Jay Nixon. That bill would have required voters to show photo id and would have created an early voting period.
The constitutional amendment proposal, if approved by voters, would authorize laws on both issues, but does not require them.
The proposed amendment seeks to get around a 2006 state Supreme Court ruling that declared a previous photo ID law unconstitutional.
(The Associated Press contributed to this report.)
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