A Step Ahead of SCOTUS |
| Published: September 25, 2007, 11:25 am |
| Tags: hearts for liptak, poverty, vote fraud fraud, supreme court |
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Yesterday, Adam Liptak's (now free!) column in the NYT addressed the question of photo identification and voting -- specifically, whether it's right (constitutionally, pragmatically, morally) to require voters to show photo ID when they go to their polling places. Law and Economics leader Judge Posner says it's no big deal to ask people to get photo IDs, and it's OK to require them (another illustration of how the Law & Economics movement is divorced from the real world). Judge Posner last year upheld an Indiana law necessitating ID's in a decision that was seen to clear the path for other states to push through these restrictive laws. So what's wrong with the laws? Well, first of all, it is much harder than Posner realizes for many people -- particularly the poor -- to get photo IDs. This is especially true in urban areas where many people do not drive. And these laws then become an ingenious way to stop poor, usually Democrat, voters from being able to exercise their franchise [ Full article ] |
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