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johnnyFive  ·  2462 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Trump Administration Is Planning an Unprecedented Attack on Voting Rights

This has been going on for a long time. I took an election law class in law school, and wrote my end-of-year paper on the first SCOTUS case to uphold voter ID requirements. It was poorly reasoned and based on wildly overblown evidence (and a misapplication of the legal standard), but even then, it was an uphill battle to try to convince anyone in my class that the laws were anything other than necessary tools to fight all this voter fraud that was apparently rampant.