You can find the NY Times piece here. I share the sentiment that the Supreme Court should move beyond partisanship in the Crawford (Indiana voter ID) case. But I am troubled by a number of things about the oped, including its failure to acknowledge the lack of any credible evidence, either before or after the Carter-Baker commission report issued, showing that impersonation voter fraud at the polls is a serious problem meriting the use of these ids. What I find most troubling about the oped, which I assume was written primarily by Bob Pastor, is its acceptance of the Pastor-led statistics on the effect of voter id requirements on voter turnout. The Pastor-led report, like other reports on this question that have reached widely variant results (another point not mentioned in the Carter-Baker oped), has not been peer reviewed and raises some serious methodological questions.
In this amicus brief in Crawford, I try to set forth how the Court should deal with the constitutionality of such laws in the absence of good social science evidence on these questions. UPDATE: Bob Bauer comments.