The Top 10 Liberal Superstitions – #7

– Kate Bachelder, The Wall Street Journal

7. Voter ID laws suppress minority turnout.More than 30 states have voter-ID laws, which the left decries as an attempt to disenfranchise minorities who don’t have identification and can’t pay for it. Yet of the 17 states with the strictest requirements, 16 offer free IDs. The Government Accountability Office this month released an analysis of 10 voter-ID studies: Five showed the laws had no statistically significant effect on turnout, four suggested a decrease in turnout (generally among all ethnic groups, though percentages varied), and one found an increasein turnout with voter ID laws in place…

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