| Absentee ballot voters are disproportionately white, wealthy and educated. These voters can cast a ballot without showing up at the polls and without presenting ID of any kind: The law says it is enough if a voter's registration signature on file with election officials matches the signature on the absentee ballot. Why should a matching signature be enough to identify absentee voters, but not enough to identify voters who meet poll workers face to face on election day? It's this double standard that caused former secretary of State James Baker, who served in the administration of the first president Bush, and former president Carter to call a photo ID law that was passed last year in Georgia "discriminatory." |
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