Voter ID Laws Don't Disenfranchise Minorities

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Voter Fraud: With the election less than a week away, be ready to hear the political left squawking loudly about how voter ID laws will disenfranchise minorities. But the grousing is baseless, as yet another study shows.

According to a University of Georgia study, while Georgia's voter ID law "did produce a suppression effect among those registrants lacking proper ID" and "lowered turnout by about four-tenths of a percentage point in 2008," researchers found "no empirical evidence to suggest that there is a racial or ethnic component to this suppression effect."

There are some claims that millions of minorities could be disenfranchised by voter ID laws. But they are based on studies that imagine "potential" and "possible" effects. The Georgia study, though, combed through actual data from the 2008 election. Which is a more reliable indicator?

Voter fraud might not be as common as burglary, but it is nevertheless a crime with real victims. And, according to the National Center for Public Policy Research, those victims are predominantly black and the poor.

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If no one ever, or rarely, looked for voter fraud, naturally it would be rare. James O'Keefe seems to be making a bit of a career exposing it. He doesn't seem to lack for examples.

 

If no one reported burglaries, does that mean they don't occur?