Voter identification laws have been the subject of heated debate. Do voter ID requirements prevent election fraud? Do they create an undue burden for voters? In this follow-up episode of POLICYbrief, the Heritage Foundation’s Hans von Spakovsky discusses whether or not voter ID requirements safeguard the election process. Learn more and continue the debate: https://fedsoc.org/commentary/videos/do-voter-id-laws-burden-voters-policybrief

As always, the Federalist Society takes no position on particular legal or public policy issues; all expressions of opinion are those of the speaker.

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Related Links:

Do Voter ID Laws Burden Voters? [POLICYbrief]
https://fedsoc.org/commentary/videos/do-voter-id-laws-burden-voters-policybrief

Voter ID: A Debate - Podcast
https://fedsoc.org/commentary/podcasts/voter-id-a-debate-podcast

Differing Views:

How Voter ID Laws Discriminate
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/02/how-voter-id-laws-discriminate-study/517218/

The Misinformed Case for Voter ID
https://reason.com/2014/05/15/the-misinformed-case-for-voter-id/

The Myths of Voter ID
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/12/opinion/voter-id-study-republicans-democrats.html

What's Old is New Again: The Nineteenth Century Voter Registration Debates and Lessons About Voter Identification Disputes
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3107326