# Does this change anyone's mind? Posner: we were wrong to allow Indiana's voter ID law

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**Created:** [October 12, 2013, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-change-anyones-mind-posner-we-were-wrong-to-allow-indianas-voter-id-law/671080 "2013-10-12T17:49:47Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-change-anyones-mind-posner-we-were-wrong-to-allow-indianas-voter-id-law/671080/39 "2013-10-15T16:15:46Z")

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> [@Bricker](#):
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> I don’t believe I have ever noticed Posner’s _Crawford_ decision mentioned here! at least before this thread.
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> Can you point to one or two of these couple of dozen times?

Sorry, not following too closely. Was this sarcasm/ a whoosh?

> [@Pennsylvania Upholds Voter ID Law](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pennsylvania-upholds-voter-id-law/631582/2):
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> > [@Pennsylvania Upholds Voter ID Law](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pennsylvania-upholds-voter-id-law/631582/2):
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> > It will be upheld on appeal, because it’s consistent with the US Supreme Court’s ruling in Crawford v. Marion County.
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> > [@What effect did voter-ID laws have in the 2012 election?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-effect-did-voter-id-laws-have-in-the-2012-election/664243/18):
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> > I care. That’s why I favor Voter ID. As the Supreme Court ruled in _Crawford v. Marion County_, that a very legal law.
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> > [@How do voter ID laws suppress minority votes?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-voter-id-laws-suppress-minority-votes/665968/208):
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> > I’m quoting, verbatim, Crawford.

If it was a whoosh or there is some subtle distinction between not noticing _Posner’s_ Crawford decision and the SCOTUS decision, have at it. If I’d told any of my law professors that discussing or quoting a SCOTUS opinion meant we never noticed or were aware of the lower court’s ruling I’d expect to have been laughed at. YMMV.  
As to the OP, since the primary rationale for the laws is effecting voter suppression, any hiccups in the veneer don’t count. What counts is the result, not the analysis or the process, so Posner’s internal reversal is easily ignored.

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