Stories Related to Insight: Scant Evidence Of Voter Suppression, Fraud In States With Id Laws

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Fri, 11/02/2012 - 8:31am

ATLANTA (Reuters) - Democratic claims that a large number of Americans could be prevented from voting because of photo identification laws are probably overstated based on evidence from Georgia and Indiana, the two states where the laws have been in place for multiple elections, Reuters found.

Senh: Looks like a case of "much ado about nothing" from both parties.

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Topics: 2012 presidential election study vote fraud voter id voter suppression voting

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