In the US, Black Americans and voters of color are less likely than whites to hold the required ID to vote and therefore are more burdened by voter ID laws, multiple studies have found.
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Rules started to come in in the mid-2010s and 2020s, with claims that such laws were justified to prevent in-person voter impersonation, a type of voter fraud that multiple comprehensive studies have found is vanishingly rare to the point of being almost non-existent.
A 2014 study from Loyola University Law School professor and elections scholar Justin Levitt, for example, found just 31 credible cases of voter impersonation between 2000 and 2014, a time period during which over one billion votes were cast.
Why is impersonation so rare? So few votes cast in first past the post elections actually make any difference ot the result that they simply aren't worth stealing and the effort required to steal enough to make a difference is easy to spot
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