OK, here are my last comments on the matter

The stats addressed birth certificates and passports (passports being one of the other forms of acceptable primary id).

Unless a person younger than 65 is a veteran, he or she is no more likely to possess the other acceptable forms of primary ID than they are to possess a birth certificate that is an “original cop(y) issued by the health department or department of vital statistics in the applicant’s county or state of birth. Birth certificates issued by hospitals or other organizations will not be accepted.”

Contrary to your assertion, the list of other primary documents is not exhaustive. Five of the eight are some kind of birth certificate, two are military, one is a passport and the final is a certificate of naturalization.

The cost, in time and money, of obtaining the required primary identification needed to get the Indiana-issued ID is not an “extremely small price to pay” for people to exercise the right to vote.

You want statistical evidence that people did not show up to the polls because of the voter ID law. Just because a lot of people showed up to vote because it was a high-interest election does not prove that people stayed home because of the ID requirement. I want statistical evidence that the “problem” the voter ID law was designed to address (in-person voter fraud) actually exists. While there may be a perception that there is a problem with in-person voter fraud (largely because of hysterical rants by people like John Fund), there is no hard evidence that it exists. Again, the evidence shows that absentee ballots are much more subject to fraud.

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