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Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Strawman is real:

Backers of voter ID like to say that opponents of voter ID claim there is no fraud of the sort voter ID would fix. This is a strawman position since our actual argument is that the harm to voter integrity done by voter ID outweighs whatever small voter fraud it may prevent or deter.

But here's Obama interviewed by Toobin in the New Yorker:

In response, Obama offered a modulated criticism. As he put it, “The fact that the Supreme Court didn’t seem to internalize evidence where state election officials or politicians are pretty unabashed in saying we want to keep certain folks from voting, where you have voter-I.D. laws that clearly make it harder for certain folks to vote, despite the fact that there is no actual evidence of fraud—not just a little evidence of fraud but no evidence—as every mathematical assessment, statistical assessment that’s been done shows, it’s a pretext for wanting to shape the franchise for partisan advantage.

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