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The New York Times | Editorial
Thursday 21 September 2006
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One of the cornerstones of the Republican Party's strategy for winning elections these days is voter suppression,
intentionally putting up barriers between eligible voters and the ballot box. The House of Representatives took a
shameful step in this direction yesterday, voting largely along party lines for onerous new voter ID requirements. Laws
of this kind are unconstitutional, as an array of courts have already held, and profoundly undemocratic. The Senate
should not go along with this cynical, un-American electoral strategy.
The bill the House passed yesterday would require people to show photo ID to vote in 2008. Starting in 2010, that photo
ID would have to be something like a passport, or an enhanced kind of driver's license or non-driver's identification,
containing proof of citizenship. This is a level of identification that many Americans simply do not have.
The bill was sold as a means of deterring vote fraud, but that is a phony argument. There is no evidence that a
significant number of people are showing up at the polls pretending to be other people, or that a significant number of
noncitizens are voting.
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