Study: Voter ID laws cut turnout by blacks, young

[G_j]

http://news.yahoo.com/study-voter-id-laws-cut-turnout-blacks-young-221257715--election.html

WASHINGTON (AP) — States that toughened their voter identification laws saw steeper drops in election turnout than those that did not, with disproportionate falloffs among black and younger voters, a nonpartisan congressional study released Wednesday concluded.

As of June, 33 states have enacted laws obligating voters to show a photo ID at the polls, the study said. Republicans who have pushed the legislation say the requirement will reduce fraud, but Democrats insist the laws are a GOP effort to reduce Democratic turnout on Election Day.

The report by the Government Accountability Office, Congress' investigative agency, was released less than a month from elections that will determine which party controls Congress.

The office compared election turnout in Kansas and Tennessee — which tightened voter ID requirements between the 2008 and 2012 elections — to voting in four states that didn't change their identification requirements.

It estimated that reductions in voter turnout were about 2 percent greater in Kansas and from 2 percent to 3 percent steeper in Tennessee than they were in the other states examined. The four other states, which did not make their voter ID laws stricter, were Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, and Maine.

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[rocktivity]

1. Candidate for this year's "You Call This NEWS?" Award

The "To Figure This Out, You Needed To Do A Freaking STUDY?" category.


rocktivity

[G_j]

2. it may be obvious to you and me

but we need all the evidence we can get for the huge struggles to come. We want to be able to definitably show the outcomes of elections were influenced by these laws.

[immoderate]

3. Those fuckers skirt the issue that voter fraud doesn't exist!

At least not the kind that strict ID laws would prevent. Yahoo pretends this is a legitimate issue. This makes as much sense as the conspiracy of greedy socialists that are promoting the myth of climate change so they can take over the world -- and limit freedom!

--imm

[uponit7771]

4. Nah, I'm more worried about some African sounding virus !!!! /sarcasm