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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Feb. 12, 2008

The Real Fraud

Forum Column - By John T. Hansen - The push for voter ID laws is merely a Republican effort to suppress minority voters likely to support Democrats.

FORUM COLUMN

By John T. Hansen
This article appears on Page 6.

      On Jan. 9, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in a case challenging an Indiana voter identification law. Crawford v. Marion County Election Bd., 07-21. The Indiana law, enacted in 2005, requires that voters who vote in person at their polling places must produce a valid (that is, nonexpired) government-issued photo identification in order to vote....

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