Been digging into the new 2020 ANES release this week, and I got curious as to what might predict negative attitudes toward increasing ballot access. So, I took a look at the ANES items on early voting, voter ID, and felon disenfranchisement. (1/n)
The following analyses look at the full sample, with dummies for racial group. I was especially interested in the role of racial attitudes, so I ran 4 sets of models -- each using a different racial attitude. (2/n)
Bottom line up front: racial attitudes predict opposition to ballot access, even after controlling for ideology, PID, authoritarianism, and perceptions of whether votes are counted fairly. For example, here's what we see for racial resentment: (3/n) 
Racial resentment is a problematic measure in many ways, so I tried it with other racial-attitude measures. Here's the same analysis, with a stereotype difference measure, i.e., attributing more neg traits to Black Americans vs White Americans: (4/n)
And here it is with a measure of the degree to which a respondent felt minorities had lots of influence vs Whites (5/n):
Finally, here is the analysis with a measure of the degree to which a respondent felt that Whites were more discriminated against than minorities (6/n):
So, while ideological self-placement has a good deal of predictive power, so do various racial attitudes (net of various covariates). Need to repeat this using only the white subsample; more on that later. (7/7)
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