538 on Voter ID
Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2018 10:27 am
The takeaway from this story is clear. Voter ID (particularly strict Voter ID) is much more likely to prevent a minority citizen from voting than a non-minority citizen. --Bob
Then there are tricks like closing the DMV offices in majority Black areas.jarnon wrote:While voter ID laws can be politically neutral in theory, the ones passed by Republican legislatures always accept IDs common among Republicans and reject IDs that many Democrats use. I imagine that if Democrats wrote a photo ID law, it would accept Medicaid IDs but not hunting licenses. Like drawing voting districts, ID laws are easy to manipulate for partisan ends.