That study suggesting voter ID laws diminish non-white turnout has just been debunked

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Only one apparently credible study had ever suggested that voter ID laws suppress minority turnout. And that study, it turns out, is bunk, as Vox reports today — albeit with commentary further down that continues to assume the unjustified conclusion.

The original study, which was widely reported when it came out last month, has been reviewed by professors at Stanford, Yale, and UPenn, who concluded with convincing evidence that there’s basically nothing to it:

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