{"id":15772,"date":"2025-03-16T01:35:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T02:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=15772"},"modified":"2025-03-16T02:57:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T02:57:33","slug":"report-wisconsin-voter-id-law-hasnt-had-negative-impact-on-voter-turnout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=15772","title":{"rendered":"Report: Wisconsin Voter ID Law Hasn\u2019t had Negative Impact on Voter Turnout"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/report-wisconsin-voter-id-law-hasnt-had-negative-impact-on-voter-turnout\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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(The Center Square) \u2013 Wisconsin\u2019s voter ID law has had no negative impact on voter turnout in the state since it was fully implemented, according to a new report from the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty.<\/p>\n

Voter turnout, in fact, has slightly increased since the law went into effect. Wisconsin voters will vote on making voter ID a constitutional amendment<\/a> April 1.<\/p>\n

Democrats in the state have argued the amendment will disenfranchise voters.<\/p>\n

The state\u2019s current law, however, has had no negative impact on minority groups voting or Dane and Milwaukee counties.<\/p>\n

The report found that socioeconomic factors such as poverty rates and education levels have a larger impact on voter turnout than voter ID laws.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy analyzing decades of election data both before and after Wisconsin implemented Voter ID, we found a general rise in voter turnout, rather than the widespread disenfranchisement that critics often suggest,\u201d said WILL Research Director Will Flanders. \u201cAny claims suggesting Voter ID is \u2018voter suppression\u2019 are merely political scare tactics aimed at undermining faith in Wisconsin\u2019s elections. Furthermore, it\u2019s worth exploring whether Voter ID can actually increase turnout by strengthening confidence in Wisconsin\u2019s election system.\u201d<\/p>\n

The research cited several studies that backed its conclusion across the country, with data showing that states with voter ID laws don\u2019t have significantly different turnout than those without the law.<\/p>\n

It also cited a Wisconsin study after the 2016 election where 1.7% said they didn\u2019t vote because they didn\u2019t have adequate ID while 1.4% said they were told at the polls that their ID was not adequate.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is well known among political scientists that individuals have a tendency to lie to pollsters regarding whether they voted or not,\u201d the report<\/a> said. \u201cOne key explanation for this is what is known as social desirability bias. In general, people do not want to \u2018look bad\u2019 to pollsters. As such, they may lie to the pollster about things that are perceived as socially undesirable, such as refraining from voting.\u201d<\/p>\n

Instead, WILL\u2019s report looked at aggregate data of turnout change in the state and in key counties such as Dane and Milwaukee.<\/p>\n

The study found that voter turnout has increased by 1.5%, on average, in the state since the law was implemented.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an interesting result,\u201d the report said. \u201cWhile it is likely too large of a leap to say voter ID has increased turnout due to the correlational nature of our analysis, it seems that there is no negative relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/report-wisconsin-voter-id-law-hasnt-had-negative-impact-on-voter-turnout\/ (The Center Square) \u2013 Wisconsin\u2019s voter ID law has…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":4396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-right-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15772"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15774,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15772\/revisions\/15774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}