In today’s WSJ:

Andrew Young, the former Atlanta mayor and U.N. ambassador who spoke at [a Voting Rights Act anniversary] rally, believes that in an era when people have to show ID to rent a video or cash a check “requiring ID can help poor people.” He noted that Georgia is deploying a mobile bus to issue voter IDs and allowing groups like the NAACP to arrange for it to go to specific sites.
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Mr. Young says rehashing arguments about the 2000 and 2004 elections doesn’t solve much–”I accept the recounts that show George Bush won”–and says it’s time for fresh thinking. “[Let’s] ask what we do about low voter turnout and whether it’s the result of racial discrimination or not,” he told me. “I don’t think it is, since everyone is equally inconvenienced by how we vote.” He suggests moving Election Day to a weekend and expanding the hours polls are open.
But many liberals can’t be bothered with a positive agenda. A new 300-page report by the American Center for Voting Rights, a group with Republican ties, documents both examples of voter fraud as well as the flimsy nature of many charges of voter suppression. David Porter, the deputy editorial page editor of the Orlando Sentinel and an African American, says he was “bewildered” last year by reports of voter intimidation in his city that didn’t pan out. John Kerry routinely accused Republicans in the 2000 election of “disenfranchising a million African Americans and stealing their votes” but provided no evidence. In that vein, a Kerry election manual advised workers that if they hadn’t seen signs of intimidation they should “launch a ‘pre-emptive strike’” and cry wolf anyway.

Read it all here.