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Another Post on Voter ID

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Tgirsch has posted on the lack of a need for Voter ID laws. After telling us how rare voter fraud is, he says,
….requiring a photo ID to vote could disenfranchise nearly 10% of the eligible population, according to the Brennan Center for Justice. In other words, it would potentially inhibit 1,000,000 times as many [...]

Voter ID Laws

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Last weekend, I pulled a little stunt to make a point about voter ID laws. I chose to use the gun rights movement as an example here, because many of their legitimate complaints about various gun control laws (e.g., that they harm the law abiding more than the potential criminals, that they’re ineffective, etc.) apply to voter ID laws. But in the case of voter ID laws, these arguments are even stronger.

Voter ID Oral Arguments Tomorrow

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The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments debating the constitutionality of Indiana’s voter identification law tomorrow

The two sides likewise are at odds over the extent to which voter-ID laws stamp out fraud. Opponents of the Indiana law say supporters can’t point to a single, proven instance in which someone has tried to impersonate a registered

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