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Thank you for quorum report for including this little gem in my daily newsclips.
http://www.washingto...
The headline from this piece of honest journalism read "Photo ID law didn't hurt turnout in Indiana." Imagine my surprise. Could it be that all this time Phil King and the Texas republicans were right? Were all those adocacy groups simply lying to me so that they could help dangerous illegal immigrants infiltrate our democratic process? Was all the political maneuvering and fighting in the last session all in vain?
Of course not...this is the Washington Times after all.
So what evidence does the times present to prove that our worst fears about voter ID were really "just overblown rhetoric and fear-mongering?"
"Jeffrey D. Milyo, a professor at the University of Missouri, compared the 2006 midterm elections - the first since Indiana's law was enacted - to the 2002 elections and said voter turnout increased about two percentage points. He said the increase was consistent across counties with the highest percentage of Democrats"
That's right, the only "evidence" that the voter ID bill didn't inhibit turn out is an increase in the number of Democrats in Democratic leaning districts. Did the wise professor from Mizzou think to study changes in minority or elderly turnout regardless of partisan identification? Of course not. After all, he is a professor at the exhaulted institution of higher learning called The University of Missouri, so why would he need to really PROVE anything?
So, I'd like to thank Professor Milyo for pointing out what I already knew: People in this country are getting sick of the Republican party...even in Indiana.
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