Above is the headline at the New York Times where the Voice of the Left (VOL) asserts that voter identification laws and a few other Republican-sponsored *gasp* measures pose an enormous burden on voters attempt to register and cast ballots.

Remarkably, it takes until paragraph 6 until they correctly point out that the Supreme Court ruled that strict photo identification requirements as found in Indiana (despite no record of evidence of fraud in the record) were a slight and perfectly reasonable burden “hurdle” to voters.

“The Supreme Court upheld Indiana’s voter identification law in 2008, saying that while it found no evidence of the fraud the law was intended to combat, it also found no evidence that the new requirements were a burden on voters.”

To be more specific that the NY Times, the Supreme Court did say that while the record in the Indiana cases contained no evidence of voter impersonation at polling places, such fraud had occured in other parts of the country, and that Indiana’s own experience with voter fraud in a 2003 mayoral primary demonstrated a real risk that voter fraud could affect a close election’s outcome.