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Court Upholds 'No Match, No Vote' Law

Last month, Miller-McCune reported on barriers to the ballot box. Florida stood out, having been named by a coalition of voting rights groups as the state most hostile to voters. A federal court last week helped solidify that distinction with a ruling that could result in thousands of Floridians showing up to the polls in November to find their names…

Voter ID Dampens, Yes, But Does It Work?

More research suggests that voter ID laws depress voter turnout among minority populations and the elderly, although the authors conclude in their study of Georgia’s decade-old (but recently tweaked) law that social scientists really need to look at voter fraud and whether voter ID works.

Supremes: Theoretical Fraud Trumps Real Burdens

In January, as the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments about Indiana's voter identification law, we noted research that suggested such laws reduce voting across the board. This reduction occurred even though such laws don't statistically depress registration. That the reduction occurred across all demographics was a tad surprising, since voter ID efforts…