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Warning in advance, there is a minor incident of language, but this is a good representation of the viewpoint of someone who has anti-voter ID sentiment, or at least a sentiment against NC voter ID laws, which I tend to agree with after review disproportinately effected african americans. 

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Warning in advance, there is a minor incident of language, but this is a good representation of the viewpoint of someone who has anti-voter ID sentiment, or at least a sentiment against NC voter ID laws, which I tend to agree with after review disproportinately effected african americans. 

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John Oliver Covers North Carolina's Voter ID Law On 'Last Week Tonight' & It Was A Doozy

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Last week was a historic week for voter ID laws, as many of the most prohibitive and baldly racist among them were struck down, which was particularly significant in North Carolina.

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For more information about Virginia's new Voter ID Law, contact 853-2281.

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Voter identification laws are a part of an ongoing strategy to roll back decades of progress on voting rights. Thirty-four states have identification requirements at the polls. Seven states have strict photo ID laws, under which voters must present one of a limited set of forms of government-issued photo ID in order to cast a regular ballot - no exceptions.

Voter ID laws deprive many voters of their right to vote, reduce participation, and stand in direct opposition to our country's trend of including more Americans in the democratic process. Many Americans do not have one of the forms of identification states acceptable for voting. These voters are disproportionately low-income, racial and ethnic minorities, the elderly, and people with disabilities. Such voters more frequently have difficulty obtaining ID, because they cannot afford or cannot obtain the underlying documents that are a prerequisite to obtaining government-issued photo ID card.

VOTER ID LAWS DEPRIVE MANY AMERICANS OF THE RIGHT TO VOTE

Millions of Americans Lack ID. 11% of U.S. citizens - or more than 21 million Americans - do not have government-issued photo identification.¹

Obtaining ID Costs Money. Even if ID is offered for free, voters must incur numerous costs (such as paying for birth certificates) to apply for a government-issued ID.

Underlying documents required to obtain ID cost money, a significant expense for lower-income Americans. The combined cost of document fees, travel expenses and waiting time are estimated to range from $75 to $175.²

The travel required is often a major burden on people with disabilities, the elderly, or those in rural areas without access to a car or public transportation. In Texas, some people in rural areas must travel approximately 170 miles to reach the nearest ID office.³

Voter ID Laws Reduce Voter Turnout. A 2014 GAO study found that strict photo ID laws reduce turnout by 2-3 percentage points,⁴ which can translate into tens of thousands of votes lost in a single state.⁵

VOTER ID LAWS ARE DISCRIMINATORY

Minority voters disproportionately lack ID. Nationally, up to 25% of African-American citizens of voting age lack government-issued photo ID, compared to only 8% of whites.⁶

States exclude forms of ID in a discriminatory manner. Texas allows concealed weapons permits for voting, but does not accept student ID cards. Until its voter ID law was struck down, North Carolina prohibited public assistance IDs and state employee ID cards, which are disproportionately held by Black voters. And until recently, Wisconsin permitted active duty military ID cards, but prohibited Veterans Affairs ID cards for voting.

Voter ID laws are enforced in a discriminatory manner. A Caltech/MIT study found that minority voters are more frequently questioned about ID than are white voters.⁷

Voter ID laws reduce turnout among minority voters. Several studies, including a 2014 GAO study, have found that photo ID laws have a particularly depressive effect on turnout among racial minorities and other vulnerable groups, worsening the participation gap between voters of color and whites.⁸

VOTER ID REQUIREMENTS ARE A SOLUTION IN SEARCH OF A PROBLEM

In-person fraud is vanishingly rare. A recent study found that, since 2000, there were only 31 credible allegations of voter impersonation - the only type of fraud that photo IDs could prevent - during a period of time in which over 1 billion ballots were cast.⁹

Identified instances of "fraud" are honest mistakes. So-called cases of in-person impersonation voter "fraud" are almost always the product of an elections worker or a voter making an honest mistake, and that even these mistakes are extremely infrequent.¹⁰

Voter ID laws are a waste of taxpayer dollars. States incur sizeable costs when implementing voter ID laws, including the cost of educating the public, training poll workers, and providing IDs to voters.

Texas spent nearly $2 million on voter education and outreach efforts following passage of its Voter ID law.¹¹

Indiana spent over $10 million to produce free ID cards between 2007 and 2010.¹²

The ACLU has led the charge against Voter ID in several states, challenging voter ID laws in in states such as Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Wisconsin, and North Carolina. For more information, please contact Robert Hoffman at rhoffman@aclu.org or visit https://www.aclu.org/issues/voting-rights/fighting-voter-suppression/fighting-voter-id-requirements to learn more.

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Oppose Voter ID Legislation - Fact Sheet

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BACKGROUNDVoter identification laws are a part of an ongoing strategy to roll back decades of progress on voting rights. Thirty-four states have identification requirements at the polls. Seven states have strict photo ID laws, under which voters must present one of a limited set of forms of government-issued photo ID in order to cast a regular ballot - no exceptions.

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A Post editorial last month criticized Kansas's Secure and Fair Elections Act, which was drafted by my office. The act requires that voters present photo identification when they vote in person, that absentee voters present full driver's license numbers and have their signatures verified, and that voters present proof of citizenship at the time of registration.

The June 22 editorial also criticized other states that moved in this direction during their 2011 legislative sessions. Wisconsin, Texas, Tennessee, Alabama and South Carolina adopted photo ID requirements; Alabama also enacted a proof-of-citizenship requirement for registration similar to Kansas's.

The editorial asserted that voter fraud is a "minuscule" problem and that I failed to show that any of the 221 incidents of voter fraud reported in Kansas between 1997 and 2010 resulted in convictions.

In fact, I presented this information to the Kansas legislature in January, and the numbers were extensively reported by the media. The 221 incidents of voter fraud included absentee ballot fraud, impersonation of another voter and other crimes. The vast majority of the cases were never investigated fully because Kansas county attorneys lack the time and resources to pursue voter fraud at the expense of other criminal investigations. Of the approximately 30 cases that were fully investigated, seven resulted in prosecutions. All seven yielded convictions.

The frequency of voter fraud in Kansas is not unusual. Unfortunately, voter fraud has become a well-documented reality in American elections.

The editorial cited figures from New York University's Brennan Center comparing the number of reported cases of voter fraud in a state to the number of votes cast in the state. Not surprisingly, the percentages are small.

But such use of these statistics is fundamentally flawed. First, most forms of voter fraud are extremely difficult to detect. We see only the tip of the iceberg; the number of instances is likely to be much higher than the number of reported cases. Second, asking what percentage of votes were cast illegally misses the point. The relevant question is: Does the number of illegal votes exceed the margin of victory in a particular race? All too often, the answer is yes.

One of the most brazen cases of voter fraud occurred in a state representative race in Kansas City, Mo., last year. It was a Democratic primary between J.J. Rizzo and Will Royster in a district where the victor was certain to win the general election. Rizzo received about 50 votes illegally cast by citizens of Somalia. The Somalis, who didn't speak English, were coached to vote for Rizzo by an interpreter at the polling place. Rizzo ended up winning by one vote.

In another example, an 18-month study by Minnesota Majority found that 341 felons in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area illegally voted in the 2008 election. Compared with the 2.7 million votes cast in the state, 341 seems insignificant. But after the recount of the U.S. Senate race between Norm Coleman and Al Franken, Franken's margin of victory was only 312 votes. The illegal votes cast by felons were not discovered until after the recount, making 341 an awfully significant number.

The editorial also cited a questionable 2006 survey from the Brennan Center, using the claim that 11 percent of the U.S. population lacks a photo ID as a basis for concluding that hundreds of thousands of citizens lack photo IDs.

But we don't have to rely on such inaccurate estimates; actual numbers are available. According to the 2010 Census, there are 2,126,179 Kansans of voting age. According to the Kansas Division of Motor Vehicles, fully 2,156,446 Kansans age 18 and older have valid driver's licenses or non-driver IDs. In other words, there are more photo IDs in circulation than there are eligible voters in Kansas. It is simply incorrect to assert that there are tens of thousands of voters in Kansas, or any state, without photo identification.

Photo IDs have become ubiquitous and unavoidable. You can't cash a check, board a plane or drive without one. That is why it's not unreasonable to require picture identification to protect our most important privilege of citizenship. And just in case a voter lacks a photo ID, Kansas's legislation requires that he or she be given one free of charge.

Photo ID requirements are a reasonable way to secure our elections. It's absurd to suggest that anyone is "disenfranchised" by such protective measures.

More states are moving to ensure the integrity of our voting process by requiring photo IDs, not as part of a devious plot to discourage voting, but because voter fraud is a real problem. And it's a problem that voters want solved.

According to a 2010 SurveyUSA poll of 500 Kansans, 85 percent supported photo ID laws. Fortunately, state legislators are listening to their constituents, not the Brennan Center, on this question.

Kris W. Kobach is secretary of state of Kansas. He is also co-author of Arizona's S.B. 1070 law on illegal immigration.

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Voter ID laws are good protection against fraud

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A Post editorial last month criticized Kansas's Secure and Fair Elections Act, which was drafted by my office. The act requires that voters present photo identification when they vote in person, that absentee voters present full driver's license numbers and have their signatures verified, and that voters present proof of citizenship at the time of registration.

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