Supreme Court Throws voting rights under the bus...

By SEDER

The Supreme Court has ruled to uphold Indiana'a voter ID laws. These laws have the effect of making it more difficult for the elderly and the poor to vote. However, they have the "benefit" of ensuring that that our elections will never suffer the voting fraud like we have no record of taking place in the 20th century!

That's right-- make it harder to vote in order to promote society's interest in  preventing something that literally never happens. 

In dissent, Justices Souter and Ginsburg:

Indiana’s "Voter ID Law" threatens to impose nontrivial
burdens on the voting right of tens of thousands of the State’s
citizens, [] and a significant percentage of those individuals are
likely to be deterred from voting.
The statute is
unconstitutional under the balancing standard of Burdick v. Takushi,
504 U. S. 428 (1992): a State may not burden the right to vote merely
by invoking abstract interests, be they legitimate, [] or even
compelling, but must make a particular, factual showing that threats to
its interests outweigh the particular impediments it has imposed. The State has made no such justification here, and as to some aspects of its law, it has hardly even tried.

 More here.

By frazzledMay 4, 2008 - 1:08am

It doesn't matter which "side" he on if he backed his views up with facts, which it looks like he did. You pull out one thing and cry "Righty", and back it up with a far left source. And I'm supposed to accept that? You seem to know an awful lot about how other people think. I have yet to hear anybody that I know (Repubs) that claim they want voter ID's to keep people from voting. They all say it's common sense to have to prove who you are in order to vote. What is so unacceptable about that? Can you prove that voters in IN were disenfranchised in the last four years due to this law?