Author: Thom Hartmann

Voter Suppression Is More Effective Than You Know – Thom Hartmann

Until recently – there’s been no empirical research to show exactly how effectively voter ID laws actually work to suppress the vote – and how they disproportionately impact democratic voters. A new report out called “Voter Identification Laws and the Suppression of Minority Votes” used data from the annual Cooperative Congressional Election Study to compare that with strict voter ID laws to those that allow voters without a photo ID to cast a ballot. The authors found that strict voter ID laws disproportionately impact minority votes – and that Democratic turnout drops by an estimated 8.8 percentage points in...

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