Voter Suppression, Then and Now

Keyssar, Alexander

doi:10.4324/9780429286827-12

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“…Supporters of voter ID laws contend that these laws protect the voting process from fraudulent votes (e.g., McCarthy, 2016). This principled rhetoric in support of voter ID laws, however, is criticized by those who oppose these laws; arguing these laws are a means of racial voter suppression because minority voters tend to be poorer and are, therefore, less likely to have a valid form of identification compared to White Americans (e.g., Keyssar, 2012;Sobel & Smith, 2009). The rhetoric surrounding this debate has evolved to include discussions of voting among illegal immigrants; specifically, among Hispanic/Latinx individuals (Kessler, 2021;Smith, 2017).…”

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“…Although those who support voter ID laws often contend that these laws have nothing to do with racial attitudes (Highton, 2017), public discourse surrounding voter ID laws is fraught with them. For example, much of the discussion surrounding voter ID laws is that they are Jim Crow laws by another name (Keyssar, 2012). Yet, this discussion has progressed beyond White-on-Black prejudice to include a new "illegal immigrant" narrative whereby politicians and citizens alike suggest that illegal immigrants, primarily Hispanic/ Latinx individuals, are seeking to cast votes in U.S. elections (Smith, 2017).…”

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Who Gets to Vote? Racialized Mental Images of Legitimate and Illegitimate Voters

Brown-Iannuzzi

Cooley

Cipolli

et al. 2021

Social Psychological and Personality Science

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When people support voter identification (ID) laws, who do they imagine they are keeping in and out of the voting booth? We investigated this question across three studies. First, using a traditional survey approach, we found support for voter ID laws was associated with beliefs that ID requirements reduce illegal voting by both Black and White people to the same degree. Because explicit surveys are vulnerable to social desirability concerns, in the following two studies, we utilized an indirect measure, reverse correlation, to investigate mental images of those who try to vote illegally (Study 2) and mental images of those who should and should not get to vote (Study 3). The findings of these studies suggest that support for voter ID laws is associated with racially biased perceptions of illegal voters and who should get to vote. Critically, these biased perceptions may be underestimated by traditional explicit survey approaches.

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