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- Title
Voter ID Laws: The Disenfranchisement of Minority Voters?
- Authors
Pryor, Ben; Herrick, Rebekah; Davis, James A.
- Abstract
The article discusses the implications of strict voter identification (ID) laws on minority voters in the U.S., according to the Cooperative Congressional Election Study (CCES) data from 2006 until 2014. Topics include the suppressing effect of the voter ID laws on minority turnout without affecting white voters, the history of disenfranchising ethnic and racial minorities in the country, and the amendment of the 1965 Voting Rights Act in 1975, ensuring voting information or ballots in a language understand.
- Subjects
UNITED States; VOTER identification laws; VOTING laws; LEGAL status of minorities; VOTER turnout; RACIAL minorities; VOTING Rights Act of 1965 (U.S.); VOTING Rights Act of 1975 (U.S.); CONSTITUTIONAL amendments; ELECTION law
- Publication
Political Science Quarterly (Oxford University Press / USA), 2019, Vol 134, Issue 1, p63
- ISSN
0032-3195
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/polq.12868