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Voter ID Laws Don’t Swing Many Elections

November 19, 2014 at 11:21 am EST By Taegan Goddard 34 Comments

Nate Cohn: “Voter ID laws might well be a cynical, anti-democratic attempt to disenfranchise voters to help Republicans, as Democrats claim. But that doesn’t mean that voter ID laws are an effective way to steal elections. They just don’t make a difference in anything but the closest contests, when anything and everything matters.”

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