Voter ID Laws In 13 States Restrict Latino Vote

In the past two months legislators in 13 states across the country have approved Voter ID laws.

According to a report in the New York Times the latest states to do so were Texas and Wisconsin. The reasoning in all thirteen states is that Voter ID deters voter fraud: when people go to the polls pretending to be someone they’re not. You’d think that it’s a very big problem, that nefarious gangs of get-out-the-vote campaign workers had gone rouge and spent their energy stealing ID’s and rounding people to use them to sway elections. Why change a law if you don’t have evidence to back the need for the change?

Maybe it has something to do with the fact that the legislators who push Voter ID are Republican, and  the voters most affected by the laws tend to vote Democratic – minority voters, the elderly, young voters.

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