'Suppression,' Debunked: Study Concludes Voter ID Laws Do Not Depress Voter Turnout

'Suppression,' Debunked: Study Concludes Voter ID Laws Do Not Depress Voter Turnout

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2019/02/13/suppression-debunked-study-concludes-voter-id-laws-dont-decrease-voter-turnout-n2541344?utm_source=deployer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newslink&utm_term=members&utm_content=20190221223002

Excerpt: When Georgia became one of the first states in the nation to demand a photo ID at the ballot box, both sides served up dire predictions. Opponents labeled it a Jim Crow-era tactic that would suppress the minority vote...Turnout among black and Hispanic voters increased from 2006 to 2010, dramatically outpacing population growth for those groups over the same period...“I think the rhetoric on both sides has been overstated,” said Edward Foley, executive director of an election law center at The Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law. “It hasn’t had the voter-suppressing effect that some people feared,” Foley said.