[EL] Corrected citation of the expert report in Frank v. Walker
Edward Still
still at votelaw.com
Wed May 9 08:27:50 PDT 2012
The correct citation to the experts' report in Frank v. Walker is
http://www.aclu.org/voting-rights/frank-v-walker-expert-report-submitted-behalf-plaintiffs.
It appears the ACLU moved the report.
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On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 9:48 PM, Rick Hasen <rhasen at law.uci.edu> wrote:
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>
> Plaintiffs’ Expert Report Finds Statistical Disparities in Voter ID
> Availability for Minorities in Wisconsin<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=33980>
> Posted on May 8, 2012 4:08 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=33980> by Rick
> Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Among the key findings (according to an email on the case) in the expert
> report <http://www.aclu.org/files/assets/062-10-exhibitjexpertreport.pdf.>of
> Matt Barreto and Gabriel Sanchez in *Frank v. Walker*, the ACLU’s federal
> challenge to voter id in Wisconsin:
>
> 1. Eligible Latino and African-American voters in Milwaukee County,
> Wisconsin disproportionately lack a form of photo ID they can use to vote
> under Act 23. 14.9 percent of eligible Latino voters and 13.2 percent of
> eligible African-American voters lack an accepted form of photo ID,
> compared to only 7.3 percent of eligible white voters.
>
> 2. Eligible African-American and Latino voters are, respectively, 182
> percent and 206 percent more likely to lack accepted photo ID than their
> white counterparts.
>
> 3. The race disparities hold for the subgroup of registered voters.
> While 6.0 percent of registered white voters do not possess an accepted
> photo ID they can use to vote, 15.3 percent of registered African-American
> voters and 11.3 percent of registered Latino voters do not possess the
> same. That is a nearly 10 percentage point disparity between registered
> white and registered African-American voters in Milwaukee County.
>
> 4. Eligible Latino voters are statistically more likely to lack any
> documentary proof of citizenship, when compared to eligible white voters,
> and are therefore less likely to be able to obtain an original Wisconsin
> state ID card or driver’s license they can use to vote. 18.9 percent of
> eligible Latino voters lack documentary proof of citizenship, compared to
> 11.2 percent of eligible white voters.
>
> 5. Finally, as compared to eligible white voters, eligible
> African-American and Latino voters are statistically less likely to both
> lack an accepted photo ID and lack the underlying documents needed to
> obtain an original Wisconsin state ID card or driver’s license. Overall,
> 2.4 percent of eligible white voters lack both an accepted photo ID and the
> underlying documents needed to obtain a Wisconsin state ID card or driver’s
> license, compared to 4.5 percent of eligible African-American voters and
> 5.9 percent of eligible Latino voters.
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