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> Why is it that people who oppose Voter ID are able to provide hypotheticals without any evidence, but people who support it have huge requirements for evidenc
by jshevek 10y ago
> Why is it that people who oppose Voter ID are able to provide hypotheticals without any evidence, but people who support it have huge requirements for evidence?
One side is claiming racism. We are such a vigorously anti-racist society, claims of racism dramatically tilt the field.
- evgen 10y agoI think you mean that one side is showing over and over in court that the objective of those pushing strict voter ID laws is to disenfranchise poor and minority voters and therefore any such restrictions have a high bar to cross.
- trendia 10y agoI think you mean that the Supreme Court has found that Voter ID laws, properly enforced, do not impose an excessive burden [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawford_v._Marion_County_Election_Board https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawford_v._Marion_County_Elec...
- evgen 10y agoNo, I mean that numerous examples over the past few years have shown that partisans of a single political party have been using the loophole provided by that case to try to pass laws which are trivially shown to be aimed at disenfranchising people. Luckily, we have lots of good examples now of cases working their way up the appeals process and once they get cert before a new court the Crawford decision will likely be overturned.