This is a big deal for liberals who claim that enforcing voter ID will disproportionately affect minority's ability to vote. You have to show ID to get on an airplane or to buy a bottle of booze, why should casting a ballot be any different. There was a big study that agreed with the liberal viewpoint but it just fell apart. From VOX:
A major study finding that voter ID laws hurt minorities isn’t standing up well under scrutiny
It was supposed to be the study that proved voter ID laws are not just discriminatory but can also have a big impact on elections. And it was picked up widely, with outlets including ThinkProgress and the Washington Post reporting that the study found voter ID laws hurt Hispanic voters in particular and skewed elections to the right.
But a follow-up study suggests the findings in the original were bunk. According to researchers at Stanford, Yale, and the University of Pennsylvania, the original study was based on surveys of voters that are extremely unreliable — skewing the results. On top of that, several calculation errors led to even more problems. When the errors are corrected, the follow-up researchers found, there’s no evidence in the analyzed data that voter ID laws have a statistically significant impact on voter turnout.
In other words, it’s possible that voter ID laws still have an impact on elections, but the original study just doesn’t have the data to prove it.
I have said it before and will say it again, the liberals know that their ideas will not stand up to scrutiny so they have to cheat to get them passed. Busing people around to stuff ballot boxes is just one example of this.
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