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Response to the Report of the National Commission on Election Reform
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Brennan Center for Justice,
9/19/2005
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Link to Brief (PDF)
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This document, responding to the report of the Baker-Carter Commission, will surely become the authoritative statement on the flaws of that report, and on the damaging potential impacts of its misguided voter ID requirement in particular. It lays out in detail how the ID Requirements will severely burden voters; that many Americans do not and will not have the requisite Photo ID; that the ID recommendations will operate as a poll tax; the ID recommendation will disproportionately burden people of color; the limited types of fraud that could be prevented by the requirements are extremely rare; and the recommendations are inconsistent with Constitutional and other federally guaranteed statutory rights
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