(WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- A study looks what impact voter ID laws really have.
According to a study from the University of Notre Dame, voter ID requirements really don't do much.
The study, published in the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences," examined the effect of voter ID laws on the electoral results for significant political races at the state level and federal level from 2003 to 2020.
“Any impact these laws exert on voter access occurs concurrently with their effects on other elements of the electoral process,” the researchers pointed out.
“What we find out, in the end, is that the results get washed out to the point where these voter ID laws don’t have much of an impact on the actual electoral outcomes.”
The conclusion was that voter ID requirements actually energized supporters of BOTH parties equally to get motivated and mobilized, which ultimately diminished the laws’ anticipated effects on the actual election results.
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