Who will determine more restrictive voting laws, courts or voters?

Killing a Fly With a Bazooka 

By THOMAS B. EDSALL, NYT

Curious whether new restrictive state voting laws requiring photo ID will damage the credibility of this year's election outcome, I sent email queries over the past week to several conservative analysts.

I found their responses illuminating.

Amy Kaufman, director of congressional relations at the Hudson Institute, wrote that "while there are changes to many states' registration programs, these will not be an impediment to the victor." She argued that Florida is

attempting to reduce voter fraud by purging possible noncitizens. Those people have the right to be readmitted by proving citizenship. It appears that over 500 of the roughly 2500 on that list have come forward to show documentation.

A colleague of Kaufman's at the Hudson Institute, Michael Horowitz, was more outspoken, declaring that "requiring some form of identification of voters seems to me not merely reasonable but long overdue."

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