First, anyone who thinks that obtaining even a free ID is never a burden has never spent time in a poor neighborhood, either urban or rural. There are constraints of time, transportation, and access that make getting an ID hard for many of our nation's poor. Indeed for hundreds of thousands of blacks born in the South before the mid-1970's, no birth certificates exist.

Second, Ms. Lithwick's piece completely ignores what ought to be the point of any article on voter suppression: the central issue of the 2000 Florida debacle was that 125,000 black voters were purged from the voter rolls, in explicit violation of the Federal voting rights law, and no one was prosecuted. The result was a STOLEN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

If we are seeking to prosecute people for voter fraud, let's start with the Bush family, Jeb and George W., and work our way down from there.