This Study Confirms Everything You Suspected About Voter ID Laws

[okaawhatever]

There is a map at the link that is a good visual description of the problem.

From the article:
The news: According to new research by University of Massachussetts at Boston sociologist Keith Bentele and political scientist Erin O'Brien, the states that have enacted tougher voter ID laws in the past few years are also the same states where both minority and lower-income voter turnout had increased in recent years.

Focusing further analysis on just 2011, when the vast majority of voter ID regulations were passed, the researchers found that states which passed the legislation were highly likely to have:
Focusing further analysis on just 2011, when the vast majority of voter ID regulations were passed, the researchers found that states which passed the legislation were highly likely to have:

- Republicans in control both houses of the state legislature and the governorship

- Strong probabilities of being swing states in the 2012 elections

- Minority turnout which was higher in the 2008 election and with high proportions of African-American voters

- Larger numbers of allegations of fraud in 2004, though these had a "much smaller substantive impact relative to partisan and racial factors"

The authors note that the study's results carry ominous implications and demonstrate voter ID laws have "an uncomfortable relationship to the political activism of blacks and the poor." Their paper further situates voter ID within a realm of policies that "collectively reduce electoral access among the socially marginalized."

Continued at the link

http://www.policymic.com/articles/77049/this-study-confirms-everything-you-suspected-about-voter-id-laws

[mercymechap]

1. They're

running scared. They will try any tactic that will improve their chances because their policies are killing them.

[Scuba]

2. The idea that tens of thousands of people are going to try to impersonate voters ....

... knowing that local election clerks know most everybody is patently ridiculous.

You can't swing even a local election with just a few impersonators. It's voter suppression, and everybody knows it.