Justice Kennedy is not "defending the patrician class" by showing a willingness to inconvenience a few people to protect the sanctity of the vote. He is defending legal American voters. To pretend otherwise is preposterous. Justice Kennedy is simply recognizing that it's completely proper to suggest that a few folks may have to be "inconvenienced" in order to ensure that thousands or millions of Americans are not disenfranchised via dilution of the vote count with illegal votes I would also add that the "inconvenience" at question is that a voter be asked to obtain, free of charge, an identification card stating that the person is eligible to vote. The same card, mind you, that is required to apply for a drivers license, welfare, Social Security, car insurance or virtually anything else required to exist on a daily basis. By refusing to consider "inconveniencing" the scant few who may fall into this category, the letter writer is seemingly willing to jeopardize the validity of the entire voting process. We can't take that risk, especially given the unsuppressed anger of so many on the far-left who, historically, have been the ones willing to subvert this system for their political gain. No political party should rely on illegal voters to pad the vote count. Instead, they should go after votes the old fashioned way - by encouraging legal voters into the fold via sound policy.