[EL] voter ID backlash after the election?

[Doug Hess]

I am wondering what response there has been from voters in states with
ID requirements. Certainly most voters might think it's no big deal,
but I recall that there were several cases that drew attention (the
famous nuns, I recall a story about a veteran who was very angry about
the ID request, and even an election official or maybe it was a
politician that didn't have their ID on them).

Although we all suspect these laws will likely most hurt younger
voters and voters who interact poorly with government (fragile,
isolated, and low-literacy populations) or who are likely behind in
updating their ID (recent movers), it seems that people pushing these
requirements might face a bit of a backlash from a wider range of
people that end up being inconvenienced at all by these laws. It may
be that such anger could be used to liberalize the list of things in
those states that count as ID or cause people to give up in pushing
for them. After all, the "less redtape" argument can be a pretty
powerful one, and the number of voters that will not have a ballot
counted due to this surely must surpass the number of illegal votes
that this would stop (which itself cannot be many, as others have
pointed out...i.e., a small percent of a small number is almost nil).

Doug Hess
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