[EL] Verifying Citizenship For Voter Registration

[Justin Levitt]

Theoretically, I suppose it could be that voter ID laws are all the same 
(just like all tax laws are all the same), and the difference in case 
outcomes has to do with some judges being duped.

Or it could be 
<http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2013/10/voter-id-update-the-diversity-in-the-details/> 
that case outcomes are different because voter ID laws are different, 
because implementation of similar laws may be different, because 
different laws have different socioeconomic and demographic impact 
depending on the baseline population, because different legislators have 
different reasons for implementing their particular version of an ID 
law, because different laws are challenged at different points in their 
lifecycle after different types of experience, and because different 
attorneys present differing quality of evidence on different types of 
claims when they do go into court.

-- 
Justin Levitt
Professor of Law
(on leave through spring 2017)
Loyola Law School | Los Angeles

On 2/16/2017 6:44 AM, Ilya Shapiro wrote:
> "whereas demographics that are very much opposed to him are being 
> actively suppressed and blocked at every turn." - Thinking this is 
> another reason why we got Trump. Voter ID -- let alone administrative 
> tweaks of voting hours/days -- are simply not suppression, no matter 
> how much people jump up and down or invoke specious disparate-impact 
> theories (which alas some judges swallow but that doesn't mean they 
> comport with reality). Suggest people focus on actual problems with 
> election administration, let alone actual social problems that are 
> beyond the scope of this listserv.
>
> Ilya Shapiro
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>
> http://www.cato.org/people/shapiro.html
>
>
> On Feb 16, 2017, at 9:30 AM, Bensman, Lina <lbensman at cgsh.com 
> <mailto:lbensman at cgsh.com>> wrote:
>
>> whereas demographics that are very much opposed to him are being 
>> actively suppressed and blocked at every turn.
>
>
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