Reply #1: WA POST: And Now We Return to 'Dead Men Suffer No Bias' . . .

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And Now We Return to 'Dead Men Suffer No Bias' . . .
By Al Kamen - Oct 12, 2007; Page A15
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/11/AR2007101102146.html

Back in 2005, when last we checked with John K. Tanner, chief of the voting rights section in the Justice Department's civil rights division, he was rippin' about the leak of a document that showed most of the section's lawyers -- but not Tanner -- thought a Georgia voter-ID law discriminated against black voters.

"Despicable," "clear breach of ethics," "unprofessional" and so forth, he railed in his e-mail -- which was promptly leaked. Anyway, the courts in effect struck down that law as -- whaddaya know? -- discriminatory.

Last week, the Brad Blog posted a video of Tanner's more recent musings on voter-ID laws -- laws needed to combat the endemic and growing problem of illegal voting, apparently by vote-deprived Canadians sneaking across the border.

These laws, Tanner told the National Latino Congreso in Los Angeles, do not, in fact, discriminate against minorities.

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