The Arkansas Supreme Court just struck down the states Voter ID law this week. We should remember that for most of U.S. history, no identification was required to vote on Election Day. There were no worries about people impersonating registered voters at the polls. That is because mobilizing thousands of people to illegally impersonate other voters is an unfathomable way to swing an election. It has never happened. It’s more far-fetched than the plot of “Gone Girl.” Yet over the past decade, Republican legislatures erected voter ID requirements in a majority of the states — all to combat this phantom menace. My new Reuters article on the shifts in Voter ID:
Posted on: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 09:21:17 +0000
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