Among the many poorly researched articles that have written about voter-ID laws, one piece that appeared recently in Politico holds a special place.
Reporter Emily Schultheis opens with the claim that “at least 5
million voters, predominantly young and from minority groups sympathetic
to President Barack Obama, could be affected by an unprecedented flurry
of new legislation by Republican governors and GOP-led legislatures to
change or restrict voting rights by Election Day 2012.”Schultheis doesn’t say where she got the estimate of 5 million until well into the article — it’s from a Brennan Center report. And she fails to disclose the radical, left-wing nature of the Brennan Center or the fact that it is an advocacy organization that is litigating against voter ID.
As I have pointed out previously, that 5 million figure is completely speculative and not based on any substantive evidence. In fact, the experience of states such as Georgia and Indiana, whose voter-ID laws have been in place for years, as well as reputable surveys conducted by academic institutions such as American University, consistently show that the share of registered voters who don’t have a photo ID is less than 1 percent. This is a far cry from the high numbers the Brennan Center has been claiming since 2006.
Read more: http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/313053/getting-it-wrong-voter-id-hans-von-spakovsky
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