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Demands for Voter Identification Require a Constitutional Standard of Reasonable Suspicion of Illegal Activity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2009

Robert Ellis Smith  and
Richard Sobel
Robert Ellis Smith
Affiliation:
Privacy Journal
Richard Sobel
Affiliation:
Northwestern University
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“It is beyond cavil that ‘voting is of the most fundamental significance under our constitutional structure’” (Burdick v. Takushi 1992, 433). Voting is particularly foundational “since the right to exercise the franchise in a free and unimpaired manner is preservative of other basic civil and political rights” (Harper v. Virginia Bd. of Educ. 1966, 667). As Justice Kennedy dissented in Burdick (1992, 434), even depriving one voter of the exercise of the fundamental right to vote is too substantial an impact to withstand constitutional scrutiny.

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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 42 , Issue 1 , January 2009 , pp. 103 - 105
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 2009

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