Government
Jan. 12, 2007
Burdening Voters
FORUM COLUMN - By Robert F. Bauer - The movement to require voters to meet heightened identification standards got a big boost from Judge Richard Posner and the 7th Circuit, but political lawyer Robert Bauer says there is a dark side to voter IDs that outweighs fraud prevention.
By Robert F. Bauer
Some voters imagine that the flurry of election law reforms and proposals of recent years was meant for their protection. Certainly, these reforms are advanced and argued in their name. And perhaps, in some instances, this is the intent of some such activity, such as the billions spent under the Help America Vote Act to retire the clumsy, misfiring punch-card ...
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