Professor RICHARD HASEN (Loyola Law School): First thing that the court has done is generally given a green light for voter ID laws and other kinds of election laws that may be motivated completely for partisan reasons.

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Ms. ROSEMARY RODRIGUEZ (Commissioner, Election Assistance Commission): The commission realized that we needed to go beyond one single election and look at an entire cycle, especially in light of the fact that many states have passed new ID laws since 2004.

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Once the light hit them, their involvement in other issues, such as voter ID laws, was made public.

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