Left-leaning think tank finds that voter ID laws don't suppress turnout

[Revmitchell]

According to a study by a left-leaning think tank, strict voter ID laws don't have a negative impact on turnout. This remains true even when you factor in different races and party affiliations. The researchers said that people who really want to vote will be able to "acquire it [a valid ID] before the election."


Who wrote the study?
The study was published by the National Bureau of Economic Research. In 2013, liberal economist Paul Krugman, who noted that at the time he was a NBER research associate, called the group a "neutral transmission channel." What it certainly wasn't, according to Krugman, was right-wing.

Left-leaning think tank finds that voter ID laws don't suppress turnout

 

[just-want-peace]

According to a study by a left-leaning think tank, strict voter ID laws don't have a negative impact on turnout. This remains true even when you factor in different races and party affiliations. The researchers said that people who really want to vote will be able to "acquire it [a valid ID] before the election."


Who wrote the study?
The study was published by the National Bureau of Economic Research. In 2013, liberal economist Paul Krugman, who noted that at the time he was a NBER research associate, called the group a "neutral transmission channel." What it certainly wasn't, according to Krugman, was right-wing.

Left-leaning think tank finds that voter ID laws don't suppress turnout

Whoda thunkit!!!!!!!!

 

[Adonia]

Well of course they don't. ID's are issued free to every person who wants to vote and as along as the requirement is that every person needs one they are non-discriminatory. The left is just using the charge of "voter suppression" to rile their people up.

 

[just-want-peace]

Well of course they don't. ID's are issued free to every person who wants to vote and as along as the requirement is that every person needs one they are non-discriminatory. The left is just using the charge of "voter suppression" to rile their people up.

And to make it more difficult to ferret out the illegal votes!!

 

[InTheLight]

I notice you didn't mention the other findings of the study, namely:

ID requirements have no effect on fraud either – actual or perceived. Overall, our results suggest that efforts to reform voter ID laws may not have much impact on elections.

https://www.nber.org/papers/w25522.pdf

 

[Salty]

So I suppose the next complaint is that many will not have a way to get to the polls.

 

[church mouse guy]

It has to have some effect on fraud unless the state is issuing numerous IDs to the same person. Here in Indianapolis in Center Township, the Democrats admitted that they were registering elderly ladies under variations of their own names and driving them from precinct on election day to vote under phony addresses. Hopefully, Indiana ID stopped that.

 

[RighteousnessTemperance&]

I notice you didn't mention the other findings of the study, namely:
ID requirements have no effect on fraud either – actual or perceived. Overall, our results suggest that efforts to reform voter ID laws may not have much impact on elections.
https://www.nber.org/papers/w25522.pdf

It wasn’t a “you” but an article which did not mention the rest of the conclusion. I’d like to read the study to see why they feel it would not reduce voter fraud.

 

[Reynolds]

According to a study by a left-leaning think tank, strict voter ID laws don't have a negative impact on turnout. This remains true even when you factor in different races and party affiliations. The researchers said that people who really want to vote will be able to "acquire it [a valid ID] before the election."


Who wrote the study?
The study was published by the National Bureau of Economic Research. In 2013, liberal economist Paul Krugman, who noted that at the time he was a NBER research associate, called the group a "neutral transmission channel." What it certainly wasn't, according to Krugman, was right-wing.

Left-leaning think tank finds that voter ID laws don't suppress turnout

The only voters ID laws suppress are illegals and dead people.

 

[Salty]

The only voters ID laws suppress are illegals and dead people.

then how do you expect them to vote!!!


On a more serious note: I had read several years ago - that a vote for a deceased person was allowed for the next 2 or 3 elections was that the family members knew how the deceased would have voted.
And if I am not mistaken - Jimmy Carter voted for that bill as a state senator.

I been looking for several minutes to find a valid source for this - so far - have not found
If anyone can help - would appreciate - but will have to sign off - until I find the AC cord for my computer.

 

[Adonia]

It has to have some effect on fraud unless the state is issuing numerous IDs to the same person. Here in Indianapolis in Center Township, the Democrats admitted that they were registering elderly ladies under variations of their own names and driving them from precinct on election day to vote under phony addresses. Hopefully, Indiana ID stopped that.

When I lived in Pa. there is not ID requirement when you vote. I voted in my county at the County Center, and I could have easily gone to other counties and voted at them as well as I was never asked for an ID or voter registration card. I was given a ballot and that was that.

 

[carpro]

I notice you didn't mention the other findings of the study, namely:

ID requirements have no effect on fraud either – actual or perceived. Overall, our results suggest that efforts to reform voter ID laws may not have much impact on elections.

https://www.nber.org/papers/w25522.pdf

Most election fraud is in the area of mail in ballots, voter registration and absentee voting. But voter ID is the place to start. Now that effort has to be extended into the other areas by requiring the same type of IDs plus a birth certificate for voter registration.

 

[church mouse guy]

Most election fraud is in the area of mail in ballots, voter registration and absentee voting. But voter ID is the place to start. Now that effort has to be extended into the other areas by requiring the same type of IDs plus a birth certificate for voter registration.

A lot of people have two or three houses in different states and think that one man one vote does not apply to them and therefore vote illegally in two or more states.