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Voter id laws hurt minorities and economically marginalized groups significantly more. These groups tend to vote democrat. There are many more factors involved

Voter id laws hurt minorities and economically marginalized groups significantly more. These groups tend to vote democrat. There are many more factors involved than the physical distance to an office distributing IDs.

skissane 4y ago
Is it still true that "economically marginalized groups... tend to vote democrat"? In 2020, Trump won "high school or less" by 15 points, while Biden won postgraduates by 35 points [0] – surely the former group are much more "economically marginalized" than the later? Likewise, I would be surprised if there is anyone with a postgraduate degree who lacks government-issued ID, while I would expect that the vast majority of those who do lack it would belong to the "high school or less" educational category. [0] https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/06/30/behind-bidens-2020-victory/pp_2021-06-30_validated-voters_00-03/ https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/06/30/behind-biden...
- boomboomsubban 4y ago
  Why are you looking at education rate rather than income? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election#Voter_Demographics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidentia...
  - skissane 4y ago
    Isn’t education level a better indicator of social class than income? An unemployed grad student may currently have lower income than the high school dropout with a full-time low-skill job, but quite possibly has far greater future earnings potential.
- geysersam 4y ago
  Yes it's still true.
tb_technical 4y ago
I don't believe minorities don't drive cars or purchase alcoholic beverages. Nor do I belive they're incapable of getting an ID. They have IDs and it's not a tall ask. Many European countries use IDs to verify the integrity of the voter but for some reason we can't in the USA?
WalterBright 4y ago
Why don't the Democrats organize to get them ID? It would seem like a no-brainer get-out-the-vote initiative.
_chu1 4y ago
How

skissane 4y ago

Is it still true that "economically marginalized groups... tend to vote democrat"? In 2020, Trump won "high school or less" by 15 points, while Biden won postgraduates by 35 points [0] – surely the former group are much more "economically marginalized" than the later? Likewise, I would be surprised if there is anyone with a postgraduate degree who lacks government-issued ID, while I would expect that the vast majority of those who do lack it would belong to the "high school or less" educational category. [0] https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/06/30/behind-bidens-2020-victory/pp_2021-06-30_validated-voters_00-03/ https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/06/30/behind-biden...

boomboomsubban 4y ago
Why are you looking at education rate rather than income? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election#Voter_Demographics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidentia...
- skissane 4y ago
  Isn’t education level a better indicator of social class than income? An unemployed grad student may currently have lower income than the high school dropout with a full-time low-skill job, but quite possibly has far greater future earnings potential.
geysersam 4y ago
Yes it's still true.

tb_technical 4y ago

I don't believe minorities don't drive cars or purchase alcoholic beverages. Nor do I belive they're incapable of getting an ID. They have IDs and it's not a tall ask. Many European countries use IDs to verify the integrity of the voter but for some reason we can't in the USA?

WalterBright 4y ago

Why don't the Democrats organize to get them ID? It would seem like a no-brainer get-out-the-vote initiative.

_chu1 4y ago

How