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" The Arkansas legislature had the bright idea to be more voter suppress-y than thou, if thou be William Rehnquist, that is. Alas for the state&amp;#039;s efforts, a local judge took a look at the new law, wondered for several minutes why it was written in crayon, chuckled softly to himself, and took a weedwhacker to it. And in the Arkansas case, they crossed it brazenly, imposing restrictions that were even more outlandish than voter-suppression efforts elsewhere. In the hopes of combating a voter-fraud problem that doesn&amp;#039;t actually exist, the state&amp;#039;s voter-ID law presented &amp;quot;a limited range of government-approved forms of identification. Out-of-state college IDs, for instance, are not allowed. Voters without ID must cast provisional ballots, then go to the county clerk to affirm that they&amp;#039;re too &amp;#039;indigent&amp;#039; to afford [one of the approved forms of identification]. And unlike some other states&amp;#039; ID laws, this one does nothing to help voters obtain identification, such as providing transportation to government offices.&amp;quot; Beg for your ballots, poor people. Sit up. Roll over. Good poor people. As you might have expected, the legislative debate over the bill took place on an astral plane far from reality, but very near the one on which Justice Anthony Kennedy conducts his business. &amp;quot;We are trying to protect the integrity of one of the most fundamental rights we have here in America,&amp;quot; said state Rep. Stephen Meeks, a Republican from Greenbrier and the bill&amp;#039;s House sponsor. James Crow, Esq., longtime local legal authority, was unavailable for comment. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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