July 6, 2021
By the National Conference of State Legislatures. Introduction: A total of 36 states have laws requesting or requiring voters to show some form of identification at the polls, 35 of which are in force in 2020. (North Carolina's law has a temporary injunction on it, as of Dec. 31, 2019.) Scroll over the map below for state-by-state […]
Read more >>June 22, 2021
By Monmouth University. Public Supports Both Early Voting And Requiring Photo ID to Vote. One-third remain convinced of 2020 election fraud. West Long Branch, NJ – Most Americans support both easier access to early voting and requiring photo identification to vote, according to the Monmouth University Poll. The public is more divided on expanding vote-by-mail, although a […]
Read more >>May 22, 2021
By Enrico Cantoni and Vincent Pons, The Quarterly Journal of Economics. Abstract: U.S. states increasingly require identification to vote—an ostensible attempt to deter fraud that prompts complaints of selective disenfranchisement. Using a difference-in-differences design on a panel data set with 1.6 billion observations, 2008–2018, we find that the laws have no negative effect on registration […]
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