A civil rights group in Alabama targeted the state's voter identification law in a federal lawsuit filed on Wednesday, saying the requirement that a photo ID be shown at the polls in order to vote discriminated against minorities.
The lawsuit, filed by the Alabama State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Greater Birmingham Ministries, asked for a permanent injunction to stop the law, which took effect last year.
The lawsuit contended the law had disenfranchised some 280,000 voters and threatened hundreds of thousands more.
A disproportionate number of those voters are black and Hispanic, the lawsuit said.
Read more: NAACP sues Alabama over state's voter identification law
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