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Wednesday, July 27, 2011

voter ID

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I guess I am in favor of requiring people to prove that they are eligible to vote in order to vote.

In a post article Katrina vanden Heuvel argues against voter identification laws. Her approach is to attack the motivations of the advocates for the laws.

One of her techniques is to assume that the only cases (of voter fraud - added 7-28)that exist are the ones that have been formally proven.

PS One of the prominent experts that she quotes does not know the difference between effect and affect. (Nobody told him to just switch to "impact".) Whether that affects the credence that should be given to his views is for you to decide.
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  1. TomJuly 27, 2011 at 9:24 AM

    I have, for years, patiently listened to arguments against requiring voters to produce proof that they are eligible to vote. To date, I have heard no argument that I can consider as anything close to reasonable. Let me state that another way. I find the notion that voters should not be required to show eligibility to vote as quite ridiculous.

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