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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wish I could find the study now, so I could provide a link. I read it more than 5 years ago. The study recorded interactions between voters and election officials in a state with a voter ID law. The election officials were, in most instances, only asking to see the ID if the voter was a person of color, with almost 90% of the Hispanic voters essentially being profiled. If that, and the issue of some of the elderly not having ID’s, could be solved, I’d be an easier convert to voter ID laws.

Plus, we need to make sure college students and indigenous people can vote. And then there’s the premise for voter ID laws, basically non-existent voter fraud. Ok - maybe I’m not such an easy convert. [/quote]

Here's a funny thing though: Students already have ID: many from State schools. Many Indigenous citizens have tribal IDs. I'm sure it's just a coincidence that many Republican led voter ID teams just don't think that these forms are satisfactory. There's always room for yet another impediment to voting for some of us. It's amazing how blithly some people will violate the constitutional rights of others.  Or maybe I should say: "others".

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/publications/human_rights_magazine_home/voting-rights/how-the-native-american-vote-continues-to-be-suppressed/

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