Study: Voter ID laws hit minorities - Associated Press - POLITICO.com

Study: Voter ID laws hit minorities - Associated Press - POLITICO.com: "-Found that in 17 states, the costs of acquiring the required ID’s ranged from $14.50 to $58.50;"

The office compared election turnout in Kansas and Tennessee — which tightened voter ID requirements between the 2008 and 2012 elections — to voting in four states that didn’t change their identification requirements.

It estimated that reductions in voter turnout were about 2 percent greater in Kansas and from 2 percent to 3 percent steeper in Tennessee than they were in the other states examined. The four other states, which did not make their voter ID laws stricter, were Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, and Maine.

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