Study: States with higher black turnout and Republican control restrict voting more

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Study: States with higher black turnout and Republican control restrict voting more http://wapo.st/19w4rbJ pic.twitter.com/DJslO5k8sh


[link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2013/12/17/states-with-higher-black-turnout-are-more-likely-to-restrict-voting/|
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2013/12/17/states-with-higher-black-turnout-are-more-likely-to-restrict-voting/]

.....More specifically, restrictive proposals were more likely to be introduced in states with larger African-American and non-citizen populations and with higher minority turnout in the previous presidential election. These proposals were also more likely to be introduced in states where both minority and low-income turnout had increased in recent elections. A similar picture emerged for the actual passage of these proposals. States in which minority turnout had increased since the previous presidential election were more likely to pass restrictive legislation.

The turnout of blacks and the poor was not the only factor, of course. Restrictive laws passed more frequently as the proportion of Republicans in the legislature increased or when a Republican governor was elected. Most of the voter restrictions adopted in this period, 83 percent, were passed by Republican-controlled state legislatures. Restrictive laws were especially likely to pass when states both had larger Republican legislative majorities and had become increasingly competitive in the previous presidential election. Meanwhile, states that had become increasingly competitive but had larger Democratic majorities were less likely to pass restrictive laws.

We also examined just the bills passed in 2011, when the vast majority of bills were adopted. The same findings emerged. States that passed more restrictive legislation in 2011 were those in which:

Republicans controlled the governorship and both chambers of the legislative body.
Forecasters viewed them as potential swing states in the 2012 election.
Minority turnout was higher in the 2008 presidential election and those which have larger proportions of African-American residents.
There were a larger number of allegations of voter fraud in the 2004 election–although this fact had a much smaller substantive impact relative to partisan and racial factors.
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[Mnemosyne]

1. I wish this surprised me. nt

[uponit7771]

2. The DNC is playing with fire, instead of insisting Holder error on the side of putting everyone one

... of the GOP polls who advocates thsi shit in jail they use it as a turnout issue.

If the DNC starting imposing voter restriction rules on rural areas there would be 23423 bundy ranches