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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
John Fund in today's WSJ:
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Slave,
Its a fine, fine eruption of bile against Democrats, I'll grant you, but I note that most of it appears targeted at national figures who've said various stupid things that WSJ finds objectionable, save two paragraphs that actually talk about, you know, the GA statute:
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Juan Williams, a National Public Radio correspondent and author of "Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years," is "stunned" by such vituperation. He told Fox News that it is "reacting to devils that have been slain 40 years ago." He says that "in service to having no fraud elections, I think you could say to people, go and get a legitimate ID. I don't think that's too much to ask."
Andrew Young, the former Atlanta mayor and U.N. ambassador who spoke at the rally, believes that in an era when people have to show ID to rent a video or cash a check "requiring ID can help poor people." He noted that Georgia is deploying a mobile bus to issue voter IDs and allowing groups like the NAACP to arrange for it to go to specific sites.
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It seems that Mr. Williams is working under an assumption that it's no biggie to get an ID. That's fine as far as it goes, but the data quoted above suggests that it is something of a hassle, which happens to target a particular racial group. It's counterintuitive to think that demographics have left sizable voting blocks without official photo ID, but it appears to be so, and they appear to be black.
Mr. Young laments that so many blacks in the state lack such an ID, and thinks that fixing it is a good idea. I agree. Until it's fixed, though, the statute sounds like a really bad idea. Wouldn't you agree?
Gattigap
