[EL] Challenges to implementing "universal vote by mail" and limiting in person voting by November

[Marty Lederman]

Yeah, occupational licensing/disenfranchisement.  You say tomato; I say
tomatoe.

Truer words than this never written, though:  "we just draw the line
differently"

On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 8:56 AM Ilya Shapiro <IShapiro at cato.org> wrote:

> There are no costless policies, regardless of anyone’s good-faith motives.
> I think certain voter “facilitation” does more harm than good, as do
> you—why not six months of online early voting for 14 year-olds?—we just
> draw the line differently.
>
> That said, I certainly hope our current crisis permanently eliminates a
> lot of occupational licensing and other arbitrary/protectionist regulatory
> burdens—so I have an agenda too!
>
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> On Mar 18, 2020, at 8:39 AM, Marty Lederman <
> Martin.Lederman at law.georgetown.edu> wrote:
>
> 
> If you'd prefer to characterize efforts to facilitate and ensure much more
> robust enfranchisement as "a preexisting agenda," well, then, I'm proud to
> be Guilty as Charged!
>
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 8:18 AM Ilya Shapiro <IShapiro at cato.org> wrote:
>
>> I imagine it’s to ensure that there’s an actual person who’s eligible and
>> wants to vote at the end of the address, trying to minimize harvesting,
>> etc. What a recipe for massive fraud this would be—the real systemic kind,
>> not the extremely isolated incidents of in-person fraud that voter ID
>> remedies—and definitely premature to be implementing this last-resort
>> least-bad option now. I know, I know, don’t let a crisis go to waste to
>> implement a preexisting agenda...
>>
>> Ilya Shapiro
>> Director
>> Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies
>> Cato Institute
>> 1000 Mass. Ave. NW
>> Washington, DC 20001
>> (o) 202-218-4600
>> (c) 202-577-1134
>> Twitter: @ishapiro
>>
>> http://www.cato.org/people/shapiro.html
>>
>> On Mar 18, 2020, at 8:08 AM, Eric J Segall <esegall at gsu.edu> wrote:
>>
>> I was wondering exactly the same thing.
>>
>> I hope everyone and their families are safe.
>>
>> e
>>
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Mar 18, 2020, at 8:06 AM, Marty Lederman <
>> Martin.Lederman at law.georgetown.edu> wrote:
>>
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