The New York Times gives front page coverage to a new Brennan Center for Justice “study” purporting to show that 19  anti-voter fraud laws and 2 executive orders in 14 states, “could make it significantly harder for more than five million eligible voters to cast ballots in 2012.”

Notice the qualifier “could” there. The word is key because Brennan fails to produce any actual evidence that any of the laws in question will actually reduce voter turnout. By contrast, there is plenty of evidence from previous laws Brennan has opposed, that common sense anti-fraud laws do not harm voter turnout. The Heritage Foundation’s Hans von Spakovsky recently detailed in National Review: