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One reason to specifically ban texting as a separate statute is that it is a fairly easily provable case. Specifically banning makeup application, fiddling with the radio, etc., would be difficult to prove in court. Texting leaves a very specific electronic trail of evidence. And it's not like it suddenly makes the criminal justice system so bogged down because there is suddenly this one specific statute that could be lumped with another. We have separate statutes dealing with vehicular manslaughter and vehicular homicide that haven't so completely complicated the courts that we have ended up with anarchy, right?
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