WINGNUTS & VOTER FRAUD

One of the main defenses I've heard for stricter voter ID laws is the presumed fact that when a stricter law was implemented in Georgia, minority voting increased. As usual, the wingnut argument leaves out some crucial contextual information, as David Weigel points out:

Georgia's voter ID law was phased in over several years, after being hit by injunctions in 2006. Compared to Pennsylvania, Georgia had four times as many locations where voters could obtain IDs. And the election Montcrief's talking about, with higher turnout, was 2008 -- the Obama race, when black turnout surged. As the Brennan Center has pointed out, it rose at only half the rate of black turnout in North Carolina, an ID-less state.