GAO Report: Voter ID Laws reduced Turnout in Tennessee and Kansas

Well Let's Hope So. We don't want any non-citizens, non-residents, non registered people voting in elections .. Now Do We?

hahahaha ... and what of the dead? or those who forgot they voted and wanted to vote again? Don't they have any rights?

Turnout among African-American and younger voters suffers when states require photo identification at the polls, the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office said Wednesday, publishing a study of voting in two states as the Supreme Court weighs whether Wisconsin can implement new ID requirements in next month’s elections.

The issue has broken along sharply partisan lines. Republicans have pushed for voter ID rules, saying they can prevent impostors from casting fraudulent ballots. Democrats contend such restrictions suppress elements of their base: poor, minority and young voters who are less likely to carry acceptable IDs.

The GAO report, requested by Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D., Vt.) and other Senate Democrats, found voter ID rules reduced turnout by 1.9% to 3.2% over several elections in the two states selected for study, Kansas and Tennessee. Participation fell disproportionately further among voters age 23 and younger, voters who had been registered for less than one year, and African-American voters, the study found.

Read the Highlights of the GAO Report HERE

“A 2% effect from voter ID is pretty significant,” said Stanford law professor Nate Persily, former research director for the bipartisan Presidential Commission on Election Administration. “The magnitude is much larger than I would have thought.”

The 206-page report examined 10 prior studies on the effects of voter ID laws. But the GAO’s statisticians and social scientists also conducted original research, focusing on Kansas and Tennessee, they said, because those states adopted voter ID without making other major voting changes, increasing the likelihood changes in turnout didn’t spring from other factors.

Read the rest of the story HERE.

So what is the report saying? That some Blacks and young people are too lazy to get ID’s? Or that some Blacks and young people commit a disproportionate amount of voter fraud?

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