but in hayden v. pitaki in 2006 justice sotomayor said these violates the voting rights act of 1965 even though that act makes no references to these long standing and common state laws and even though they are specifically referenced in the 14th amendment to the constitution itself. in her view, with analysis of a few short paragraphs only, the new york law was found, quote -- she found -- she concluded that the new york law was, quote, on account of race, closed quote, and therefore it violated the voting rights act. it was on an account of race because of its impact and nothing more. statistically it seems that in new york as a percentage of the population more minorities are in jail than nonminorities, therefore, it was concluded that this act was unconstitutional. i think this is a bridge too far. it would mean that state laws setting a voting age of 18 would also violate federal law because within the society in most of our country minorities would have more children under 18. and that would have an im