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Poll: 8-in-10 back voter ID
Despite Democratic charges that conservative states and politicians are engaging in discrimination by demanding that voters show identification, more than three-quarters of likely voters believe photo ID laws are needed.
A new Rasmussen Reports poll out Wednesday found support for photo ID laws at 76 percent, nearly exactly the 78 percent support registered in 2006 when the latest movement to scrap the laws kicked off.
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President Obama and several top Democrats have accused Republicans of attempting to keep minorities from the polls with the photo requirement, but even their own party faithful don't agree.
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Rasmussen found that 58 percent of Democrats believe a photo ID must be shown before voting.
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Other findings:
— 92 percent of Republicans and 78 percent of voters not affiliated with either major party support photo ID rules.
— 37 percent of all voters think it is more common for eligible voters to be prevented from voting than it is for those not eligible to vote to cast a ballot instead.
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The survey of 952 Likely Voters was conducted on May 27-28, 2015 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95 percent level of confidence.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner's "Washington Secrets" columnist, can be contacted at pbedard@washingtonexaminer.com.
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