“Voter ID laws are reaction to nonexistent problem”

Greg Smith in The Tennessean:

Von Spakovsky and others are persuading the public, as well as state legislatures and courts, that illegal immigrants, unscrupulous voter registration activists and vote buyers are stealing elections. Claims of voter malfeasance have “justified” tighter voting restrictions. Yet, these claims have been found repeatedly and empirically to be “myths” (and I can cite 28 scholarly or empirical sources). The evidence is astonishing.

In a 2015 personal communication, von Spakovsky expressed clearly that not even a single, empirical or peer-reviewed research report supporting his viewpoints existed, nor had even one university press published a book. It appears self-incriminating that he offers no specific rebuttal to the endless empirical evidence specifically against his unsupported claims. Additionally, I could find nothing to indicate that neither von Spakovsky — nor anyone on his behalf or support from him of anyone else making similar claims — has attempted to argue the merits of his claims against his critics. The only exception is when he insisted nebulously that he never has “been credibly rebutted nor shown to be incorrect.”

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