Excerpt (as published)

"When Cynthia Tucker asserts that Georgia's [voter] ID law is 'odious,' and is meant 'to discourage, inconvenience and disenfranchise.  .  . voters of color,' she is prompted purely by her nagging racism.  [She also] quotes the Obama administration's assessment that 'in-person fraud at the ballot box is virtually non-existent.' 

"[She says] that the loss of early voting is somehow discriminatory, but I believe that good citizens.  .  .  make the effort to honor election day.  At my age, however, I appreciate being able to vote by absentee ballot, a format that Tucker overlooks in her zeal to excoriate whites, Republicans, Supreme Court Justice Scalia, and one allegedly racist sheriff, Jim Clark, long since dead.  If I were as racist as she, I might worry about illegal 'black and brown' immigrants contaminating mail-in ballots.  .  .  if fraud weren't 'virtually non-existent.'"