The NYT compares having a driver's license to a poll tax

The NYT editorial page gets looney:

Critics of Georgia's new voter-identification law, which forces many citizens to pay $20 or more for the documentation necessary to vote, have called it a modern-day poll tax, intended to keep blacks and poor people from voting. A federal judge supported these claims yesterday and blocked the law from taking effect. Instead of continuing to defend the statute in court, Georgia should remove this throwback to the days of Jim Crow from its lawbooks.

The New York Times doesn't object to people 25 years old showing a picture ID to get tobacco.One could say the Times is most certainly soft on fraud.In cities like Chicago,New York,and Philadephia voters who've long moved away still show up on the voting rolls.