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Trying to do as a matter of political strategy is to say we think that the military vote is more likely to go in our favor and we want more of an tubtd for those folks. what we don't want is the same opportunity for the general population. so, that is why it could have made a difference. i don't know how big a statistical difference it would make. i want to respond to steve. i don't know if it's common sense. if you put it in terms show an i.d., they say no big deal for me, but most of my friends. if you put the question more in terms is it okay to depress certain votes in our society. think b...

For the best summer sweepstakes. when congress passed the voting rights act in 1965, the idea was to offer federal protection for the right to vote. voting rights act said you cannot have the right to vote infringed upon in any way by a poll tax or a lit literacy test or by intimidation of any kind. voting was important, it was constitutionally protected, so congress ordered federal protection for it. even if states wanted to infringe that right, the federal government would not let them do it. the voting rights act passed both chambers of congress by wide margins. republicans, incidentally,...

When congress passed the voting rights act in 1965, the idea was to offer federal protection for the right to vote. voting rights act said you cannot have the right to vote infringed upon in any way by a poll tax or a lit literacy test or by intimidation of any kind. voting was important, it was constitutionally protected, so congress ordered federal protection for it. even if states wanted to infringe that right, the federal government would not let them do it. the voting rights act passed both chambers of congress by wide margins. republicans, incidentally, supported it by wider margins than...

Right? w imagine if your right to vote depended on answering them correctly. because that was the case in many states throughout the south throughout the first six decades of the 20th century. you had to answer questions like these or pay the equivalent today of a nearly $11 poll tax to even be allowed to register to vote. the result was that between 1892 and 1916 states with both a poll tax and a literacy test had a presidential voter turnout of just 24% according to research by historians francis fox pivan and richard cloward. those numbers were not just collate ral damage. the laws were des...

Where he comes out and publicly basically says, the purpose of this new i.d. law is not to prevent crime or corruption or anything else. it is to get this guy romney to pull an upset in pennsylvania. >> as lawyers we call that the smoking gun evidence. >> i call it the perry mason moment. when the bad guy stands up and says you got me. >> that's right. this is the smoking gun evidence. there was no evidence of voter fraud in pennsylvania but there is evidence of voter suppression. >> you're a lawyer, right? >> that's right. >> what chance do you have in the constitutional fight in harrisburg? ...