Support for voter ID
washingtontimes.com
Democrats often claim that voter identification laws, including the Indiana statute currently under review by the Supreme Court, lead to disenfranchisement of poor people, racial minorities and senior citizens. However, this claim doesn’t sit well with most Americans, according to a new Rasmussen Reports/The Washington Times/Fox 5 survey, and the argument also doesn’t comport with the facts.
Two-thirds of those surveyed, including most Americans from racial and ethnic minority groups and older Americans, believe that would-be voters should be required to show photo identification. Such a basic, commonsense measure protects against voter fraud and certainly passes constitutional muster, which is why we agree with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, which upheld the 2005 law. U.S. District Judge Sarah Evans Barker agreed when she sustained the Indiana law in a 2006 ruling against the Indiana Democratic Party and the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana: “Despite apocalyptic assertions of wholesale voter disenfranchisement, plaintiffs have produced not a single piece of evidence of any identifiable registered voter who would be prevented from voting.” (more…)
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