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You're looking at the wrong column. That's the percentage of people who are 18 or older, not the percentage of people who are legally allowed to vote. The first column is the relevant one- what percentage of people who are allowed to vote did vote.
Ummmmm how many people under the age of 18 can vote? It was 0 the last time I looked.
Occam's razor? That doesn't have anything to do with this. You're arguing that, contrary to the scientific method itself, we shouldn't bother controlling for external variables...
No. I am saying the simplest answer in this case is true. You don't need scientific data to tell you photo ID's have made no difference.
5 million voters if photo ID laws were applied nationally, not just in the photo ID states.
Voting is handled by the states, not the feds. No federal voting ID law is being sought.
You can't really draw any conclusions just based on this table. You have no idea what impact it had from this table. To know that you'd need to control for as many other variables as possible. For example, say that 99% of voters that make more than $100k/year have photo IDs, but only 80% of voters that make less than $20k/year do. A proper study would look to see how turnout changed for people making $100k/year or more vs how it changed for people making $20k/year or less. If turnout increased by more for people making more than $100k, it would also need to look at how turnout changed for those groups nationally. From that you could begin to make a reasonable guess about the impact it had. A study would compare changes in various groups in Indiana to changes in those groups' turnout nationally, compare all that to the percentage of the groups that have photo IDs issued by Indiana, look for correlations, etc. Just trying to skip over all that analysis doesn't work. You can't make any useful conclusions without thinking all that through.
Typical liberal bull**** talking points on the issue...
Simple fact is that in states that have photo ID laws the effect on voter turnout was negligible, period. It is not that complicated.