Steve Chapman on Voter ID and Vote Suppression

One
GOP-dominated state after another has adopted new voter
identification requirements in the name of preventing election
fraud. Republicans seem to be willing to go through an enormous
amount of trouble to combat a crime that is highly rare and
uniformly ineffectual, writes Steve Chapman. As a cure for
fraudulent voting, a stringent voter ID law is like prescribing
morphine for a hangnail. But as a cure for Democratic voting, it’s
hard to beat.

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