2009 Ed Meese Award Winner Hans Von Spakovsky on Voter ID
2009 Ed Meese Award
Winner, Hans Von Spakovsky published an op-ed in USA Today this morning on
voter ID laws. Mr. Von Spakovsky's op-ed takes the view that voter ID laws
ensure election integrity. His op-ed focuses on past voter ID laws passed in
Georgia and Indiana that did not decrease minority voter turnout.
Referring to claims of voter disenfranchisement that some tried to
advocate when Indiana passed a voter ID law, Mr. Von Spakovsky cites the
court, saying:
Despite apocalyptic
assertions of wholesale vote disenfranchisement, the plaintiffs produced not a
single piece of evidence of any identifiable registered voter who would be
prevented from voting.
Mr. Von Spakovsky is
relying on concrete facts to back up his assertions. With evidence to the
contrary, hopefully this will thwart state legislators from calling voter ID
laws as racist and claiming disenfranchisement of minority voters.