Up to 2.5 million votes could have been manipulated in Sunday's Turkish referendum that ended in a close "yes" vote for greater presidential powers, an Austrian member of the Council of Europe observer mission said

Sorry but those minority voter suppressing ID laws are not a problem.

Source: http://www.vox.com/identities/2017/3/15/14909764/study-voter-id-racism

To highlight important passages:

It was supposed to be the study that proved voter ID laws are not just discriminatory but can also have a big impact on elections. And it was picked up widely, with outlets including ThinkProgress and the Washington Post reporting that the study found voter ID laws hurt Hispanic voters in particular and skewed elections to the right.

But a follow-up study suggests the findings in the original were bunk. According to researchers at Stanford, Yale, and the University of Pennsylvania, the original study was based on surveys of voters that are extremely unreliable — skewing the results. On top of that, several calculation errors led to even more problems. When the errors are corrected, the follow-up researchers found, there’s no evidence in the analyzed data that voter ID laws have a statistically significant impact on voter turnout.

Studies looking into voter ID laws’ effect on voter turnout back this up. The research, including multiple studies conducted over several years, has generally found that voter ID laws have little to no impact on voter turnout, even when looking at specific racial groups

Even without the article, why is it a problem to expect minority voters to have a form of valid ID to vote? The same identification required to go into courthouses, federal buildings, apply for a bank account, get a credit car, drive a car and even get a library card.

I used to live in the countryside and there was no excuse for not having my driver's license. There were no bus routes, nothing. But I still got to town and got my shiny piece of plastic with my picture on it because it's one of the most important documents you'd be carrying on you at any time.

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