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Friday, January 30, 2009

Voter ID Success in November

Had to share this with you because Hans is an old Georgia friend via the Coverdell Leadership Institute. Great guy, and he is so, so smart. I now watch him from afar as he's up there in D.C. making waves...

Hans von Spakovsky: Voter ID Was a Success in November
Turnout was higher in states that took a simple step to prevent fraud.

Remember the storm that arose on the political left after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of Indiana's voter ID law last April? According to the left, voter ID was a dastardly Republican plot to prevent Democrats from winning elections by suppressing the votes of minorities, particularly African-Americans.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123327839569631609.html?mod=djemEditorialPage

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