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204761-opponents-of-voter-id-laws-see-time-to-fight-running-outThe Hill:

 

Critics of tough voter ID laws are running out of time and options in their efforts to knock down those barriers ahead of this year’s midterm elections.

Opponents got good news last week, when a state judge struck down Arkansas’s law, and another jolt Tuesday, when a federal judge ruled Wisconsin’s law, which wasn’t yet in effect, was unconstitutional.

But their enthusiasm could be short-lived. At least eight states are still slated to have strict photo ID requirements in place in November, leading voting rights advocates to send dire warnings about potential disenfranchisement at the polls this year.

Yet on Capitol Hill, the voter ID issue remains as partisan as ever, forcing even the sponsors of bills softening those rules to concede that their legislation has no chance of moving through a divided Congress in 2014.Scissors-32x32.png

 


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Students Joining Battle to Upend Laws on Voter ID

 

College Students Claim Voter ID Laws Discriminate Based on Age

 

By MATT APUZZO

 

JULY 5, 2014

WASHINGTON — Civil rights groups have spent a decade fighting requirements that voters show photo identification, arguing that this discriminates against African-Americans, Hispanics and the poor.

This week in a North Carolina courtroom, another group will make its case that such laws are discriminatory: college students.

Joining a challenge to a state law alongside the N.A.A.C.P., the American Civil Liberties Union and the Justice Department, lawyers for seven college students and three voter-registration advocates are making the novel constitutional argument that the law violates the 26th Amendment, which lowered the voting age to 18 from 21.

The amendment also declares that the right to vote “shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on account of age.”Scissors-32x32.png

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/06/us/college-students-claim-voter-id-laws-discriminate-based-on-age.html?ref=politics

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When it Comes to Voter ID, Ageism is the New Racism

Posted by Amy Miller Monday, July 7, 2014 at 1:37pm

 

Acquiring an ID is far too complicated for America’s educated, apparently

 

Via the New York Times:

 

…lawyers for seven college students and three voter-registration advocates are making the novel constitutional argument that the law violates the 26th Amendment, which lowered the voting age to 18 from 21. The amendment also declares that the right to vote “shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on account of age.”

 

The sound you just heard was the collective gasp of thousands of first-year Constitutional Law professors looking for their next great exam question.

 

This case is novel in the way that most of the race-based challenges to voter ID were novel: the lawyers are using a basic concept–in this case, the Constitutional standard governing the voting age–and twisting it into a big progressive knot to use as a political tool against the other side of the aisle. It’s despicable, and intellectually dishonest, but it’s nothing new and certainly not surprising. Scissors-32x32.png

 

http://legalinsurrection.com/2014/07/when-it-comes-to-voter-id-ageism-is-the-new-racism/

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The Perfect Progressive Voter: Too Dumb To Think For Themselves

 

Posted on August 12, 2014 by The Political Hat

 

A member of the Commission on Civil Rights, Michael Yaki, has declared that many adults are too immature to be allowed to discuss political or other matters without the kind guidance of the thought police — specifically, he refers to college students:

 

“I mean where do you think you can, that the university can’t deal with ensuring the route it has environment that is not oppressive or hostile because obviously a campus, especially certain types of campuses where there’s a lot of, where, that are geographically compact, that have a lot of working and living situations in a close area to create a campus atmosphere. Scissors-32x32.png

 

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http://politicalhat.com/2014/08/12/the-perfect-progressive-voter-too-dumb-to-think-for-themselves/

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