Worse yet, Stevens chided, neither the NAACP, the ACLU, nor the Democratic Party could provide hard numbers about the “magnitude of the burden … or the portion of the burden imposed” on those who ostensibly would be disfranchised by SEA 483. “Much of the argument about numbers of such voters,” Stevens scoffed, “comes from extrarecord, postjudgement studies, the accuracy of which has not been tested in the trial court.” The court, therefore, ruled that the state’s needs were compelling and there was no concomitant evidence that SEA 483 placed any substantive burden on voters to block their
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