Letters: The GOP’s phantom menace
Re “New voter ID laws blocked — for now,†Oct. 8
This article substitutes he said/she said stenography — Republicans say photo ID laws prevent fraud, while opponents say they entail voter suppression — for objective journalism.
In-person impersonation — the only type of fraud that can be prevented by polling-place ID requirements — is a phantom menace. The GOP — with one party member boasting in Pennsylvania that the law there would deliver the state to Mitt Romney — has been unable to point to a single case of in-person voter fraud ever occurring.
Evidence presented in multiple cases supports the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s conclusion that polling place photo ID restrictions disproportionately burden “the most vulnerable segments of society†— minorities, the poor, the elderly and the disabled.
Ernest A. Canning
Thousand Oaks
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