[EL] ELB News and Commentary 1/29/12

[Edward Still]

The correction link for the Erickson & Minnite article is
http://www.columbia.edu/~rse14/erikson-minnite.pdf.


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On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Rick Hasen <rhasen at law.uci.edu> wrote:

>    <http://electionlawblog.org/>
>     An Incomplete NPR Report on Voter ID<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=28855>
> Posted on January 29, 2012 3:52 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=28855>
> by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> NPR reports<http://www.npr.org/2012/01/28/146006217/why-new-photo-id-laws-mean-some-wont-vote?sc=tw>“Why New Photo ID Laws Mean Some Won’t Vote.”  While this is an interesting
> report on who doesn’t have voter id and on how the data skew, it is really
> incomplete.  This is what we need to know to understand how new i.d.
> requirements may affect upcoming elections:
>
> 1. how many people don’t have i.d. now and how do those data skew?
>
> 2. of those people who don’t have i.d.
>
> a. how many want but cannot get the i.d. needed to vote (either because
> the documents needed for the i.d. are not (easily) available or affordable,
> for religious reasons, or some other reason)?; and
>
> b. of those people, how many would vote, but for the lack of a voter i.d.?
> and
>
> c. of those people lacking i.d. who want to vote, how many may vote
> without i.d., either through an absentee ballot, with an affidavit or
> witness statement, or through some other means?
>
> In short, knowing how many people don’t have i.d. now is the beginning,
> not the end, of the inquiry about how voter i.d. laws will affect the
> outcome of elections.  I have yet to see good data on these final
> questions.  The best analyses I have seen so far on this question arePitts and Neumann
> <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1465529>and Erikson
> and Minnite<http://electionlawblog.org/www.columbia.edu/%7Erse14/erikson-minnite.pdf>.
> Both show we are a long way from being able to answer these questions,
> though there is reason to believe the numbers of people actually deterred
> by voter i.d. requirements likely are not enormous.
>
>
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