Justin Levitt searches for a silver lining (wearing his most rose-colored glasses, in my opinion); see also Justin’s posts here and here)
An alternative newspaper in Indianapolis finds someone who might make a good as applied plaintiff.
Doug Chapin has some very sage thoughts in the new Electionline weekly, but it won’t be posted at Electionline.org until tomorrow.
See also interesting blog posts by Frank Pasquale, Bill McGeveran. Howard Wasserman, and Steve Bainbridge. A reader sent me a link to Bainbridge’s post, which takes on Marty Lederman and my claim about the lack of evidence of the kind of voter fraud that an id law would prevent. My amicus brief in the case (and better yet, the Brennan Center this Brennan Center brief) looks at the evidence closely. The conclusion: there’s been plenty of voter fraud in American history, and much of it certainly predates the first Daley era. In the modern era, voter fraud tends to come in three varieties: absentee ballot fraud, fraud committed by election officials, and voter registration fraud (which it turns out does not lead to votes cast by fictitious people). Voter id at the polling place does nothing to prevent these kinds of fraud.