Does the Voter ID Requirement Safeguard the Election Process? [POLICYbrief]
Short video with Hans von Spakovsky
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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https://www.heritage.org/staff/hans-von-spakovsky
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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