It’s important to protect the integrity of our elections. But we must be careful not to undermine free and fair access to the ballot. The following is a comprehensive list of social science research on the impact of voter identification restrictions, which make it harder for some citizens to vote.
- The Texas Voter ID Law and the 2016 Election: A Study of Harris County and Congressional District 23 (Mark P. Jones, Renée Cross, and Jim Granato) (04/2017)
- Voting Rights and the Kansas Secure and Fair Elections Act (Kansas Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights) (03/2017)
- Understanding the Adoption of Voter Identification Laws in the American States (Daniel R. Biggers and Michael J. Hanmer) (01/16/2017)
- A Partisan Model of Electoral Reform: Voter Identification Laws and Confidence in State Elections (Shaun Bowler and Todd Donovan) (01/11/2016)
- Essay – Softening Voter ID Laws Through Litigation: Is it Enough? (Richard L. Hasen) (03/07/2016)
- Voter Identification Laws and the Suppression of Minority Votes (Zoltan Hajnal, Nazita Lajevardi, Lindsay Nielson) (Draft)
- Comment on “Voter Identification Laws and the Suppression of Minority Votes” (Justin Grimmer, Eitan Hersh, Marc Meredith, Jonathan Mummolo and Clayton Nall) (03/10/2017)
- The Texas Voter ID Law and the 2014 Election: A Study of Texas’s 23rd Congressional District (Gov. Bill Hobby, Mark P. Jones, Jim Granato, and Renée Cross) (08/2015)
- A Principle or a Strategy? Voter Identification Laws and Partisan Competition in the American States (William D. Hicks, Seth C. McKee, Mitchell D. Sellers and Daniel A. Smith) (10/16/2014)
- The Effects of Voter ID Notification on Voter Turnout: Results from a Large-Scale Field Experiment (Jack Citrin, Donald Green, and Levy Morris) (05/2014)
- Issues Related to State Voter Identification Laws (Government Accountability Office) (9/2014)
- Jim Crow 2.0? Why States Consider and Adopt Restrictive Access Policies (Keith G. Bentele and Erin E. O’Brien) (12/10/2013)
- Photo ID, Provisional Balloting, and Indiana’s 2012 Primary Election (Michael J. Pitts) (3/28/2013)
- Black and Latino Youth Disproportionately Affected by Voter Identification Laws in the 2012 Election (Jon C. Rogowski and Cathy J. Cohen) (03/2013)
- New State Voting Laws: A Barrier to the Latino Vote? (Jessica A. Gonzalez) (04/15/2012)
- Perspectives: Are voter photo identification laws a good idea? (T. Middleton) (Social Education, 76(2), 66–70) (2012) (no link available)
- Protecting the integrity of the election process (Hans von Spakovsky) (2012)
- Much ado about nothing? An empirical assessment of the Georgia voter identification statute (M.V. Hood and Charles Bullock III) (2012)
- Voting and ID Requirements: A Survey of Registered Voters in Three States (Robert A. Pastor, Robert Santos, Alison Prevost, and Vassia Stoilov) (07/2010)
- Can voter id laws be administered in a race-neutral manner? Evidence from the city of Boston in 2008 (Rachael V. Cobb, D. James Greiner, Kevin M. Quinn) (06/14/2010)
- The cost of the vote: Poll taxes, voter identification laws, and the price of democracy (Atiba R. Ellis) (02/17/2010)
- A new barrier to participation: Heterogeneous application of voter identification policies (Lonna Rae Atkeson, Lisa A. Bryant, Thad E. Hall, Kyle L. Suanders, R. Michael Alvarez) (8/14/2009)
- Documenting Disfranchisement: Voter Identification During Indiana’s 2008 General Election (Michael J. Pitts and Matthew D. Neumann) (Summer, 2009)
- The disproportionate impact of voter-id requirements on the electorate? New evidence from Indiana (Matt Barreto, Stephen Nuno, and Gabriel R. Sanchez) (01/2009)
- Effects of identification requirements on voting: evidence from the experiences of voters on Election Day (Stephen Ansolabehere) (01/2009)
- What We Know About Voter-ID Laws, Registration and Turnout (Majorie Randon Hershey) (01/2009)
- The Empirical Effect of Voter Identification Laws on Turnout (Jason Mycoff, Michael Wagner and David Wilson) (01/2009)
- The Voter ID Mess: Estimating the Effects of State Voter ID laws on Voter Turnout and Self-Reported Voting Irregularities (Jeff Milyo) (2009)
- Voter-identification requirements and the learning curve (Timothy Vercellotti and David Anderson) (2009)
- The empirical effects of voter id laws: Present or absent? (Jason Mycoff, Michael Wagner and David Wilson) (2009)
- Modeling problems in the voter identification—voter turnout debate (Robert S. Erikson and Lorraine C. Minnite) (2009)
- ID at the Polls: Assessing the Impact of Recent State Voter ID Laws on Voter Turnout (Shelley DeAluth) (2009)
- Empirically Assessing the Impact of Photo Identification at the Polls Through An Examination of Provisional Balloting (Michael J. Pitts) (10/21/2008)
- Voter Identification Studies: Which Study Is Right? (Kim Hilsenbeck, Sarah Park, Alison Prevost and Vassia Gueorguieva) (05/2008)
- An empirical bayes approach to estimating ordinal treatment effects (R. Michael Alvarez, Delia Bailey, and Jonathan A. Katz) (03/28/2008)
- Voter IDs are Not the Problem (Dr. Robert Pastor, Robert Santos, Alison Provost and Vissia Gueorguieva) (1/9/2008)
- Vote fraud in the eye of the beholder: the role of public opinion in the challenge to voter identification requirements (Stephen Ansolabehere and Nathaniel Persily) (2008)
- The Disproportionate Impact of Indiana Voter ID Requirements on the Electorate (Matt A. Barreto, Stephen A. Nuno, Gabriel R. Sanchez) (11/8/2007)
- The Effects of Photographic Identification on Voter Turnout in Indiana (Jeff Milyo) (11/2007)
- The Effect of Voter Identification Laws on Turnout (M. Alvarez, Delia Bailey and Jonathan N. Katz) (11/2007)
- Voter ID requirements and the disenfranchisement of Latino, Black and Asian votes (Matt A. Barreto, Stephen A. Nuño and Gabriel R. Sanchez) (09/1/2007)
- The Effect of Voter Identification Laws on Aggregate and Individual Level Turnout (Jason D. Mycoff, Michael W. Wagner, David C. Wilson) (08/2007)
- Voter Identification: Suppression or Precaution? (Jason Randall) (4/16/2007)
- Worth a thousand words?: An analysis of Georgia’s voter identification statute (M.V. Hood III and Charles Bullock III) (4/2007)
- Access versus Integrity in Voter Identification Requirements (Stephen Ansolabehere) (01/31/2007)
- Voter Identification (Spencer Overton) (2007)
- Citizens Without Proof: A Survey of Americans’ Possession of Documentary Proof of Citizenship and Photo Identification (Brennan Center for Justice) (11/2006)
- Protecting the Franchise, or Restricting It?: The Effects of Voter Identification Requirements on Turnout (Timothy Vercellotti and David Anderson) (09/3/2006)
- Evidence of Voter Fraud and the Impact that Regulations to Reduce Fraud Have on Voter Participation Rates (John R. Lott Jr.) (08/18/2006)
- Analysis of the September 15, 2005 Voter Fraud Report Submitted to the New Jersey Attorney General (Brennan Center and Michael McDonald) (12/2005)
- Response to the Report of the 2005 Commission on Federal Election Reform (Brennan Center and Spencer Overton) (09/2005)