After the federal district court blocked the law, ruling that the ID requirement constituted a poll tax, the Georgia legislature amended it in 2006 to allow the state to provide photo IDs at no cost. Following a trial on the amended law, the federal district court ruled against the plaintiffs. Despite evidence that 289,426 registered voters lacked drivers’ licenses or non-driver photo IDs issued by the Department of Driver Services (and that 49% of those voters without IDs were African Americans while only 27.9% of all registered voters were African American), the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed and the Supreme Court denied the plaintiffs’ petition for writ of certiorari.