PS: Political Science & Politics

Table of Contents - January 2009 - Volume 42, Issue 01  

Symposium

Voter-ID Laws Discourage Participation, Particularly among Minorities, and Trigger a Constitutional Remedy in Lost Representation

Richard Sobela1 and Robert Ellis Smitha2

a1 Northwestern University

a2 Privacy Journal

Because voter-identification laws discourage voter turnout, particularly among identifiable minority groups, their implementation abridges a fundamental constitutional right. The U.S. Constitution includes a little-known remedy for denying or abridging the right to vote that reduces a state's congressional representation in proportion to the extent of the abridgements.

Footnotes

An earlier version of this article appeared as part of an amicus brief for Crawford (Albano et al. 2007).

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