INDIANAPOLIS -- The Indiana Supreme Court will decide the fate of the state law requiring government-issued photo identification for voters.

The court announced Monday that it would hear an appeal of a lower court ruling last year that overturned the voter ID law because it required those who vote in person to verify their identities but not those who vote by mail.

The League of Women Voters argued the law violated the Indiana Constitution by imposing a new requirement on only some voters, making it tougher for certain people to vote, including the elderly and poor.

The state appeals court agreed with those arguments in its 3-0 decision.

“I am fully confident that when the justices of the Indiana Supreme Court review the merits of our exemplary law they, like their counterparts on the U.S. Supreme Court, will allow the law to stand,” said Secretary of State Todd Rokita.

The law passed in 2005 with the ardent support of Gov. Mitch Daniels and most other Republicans in state government. In 2008, Democrats lost a separate challenge to it in the U.S. Supreme Court.

The state Supreme Court will hear the case on March 4. Because the case is pending, Indiana can continue its current voter ID practices.