# Are voter ID policies (and their supporters) racist?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [November 15, 2016, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-voter-id-policies-and-their-supporters-racist/772039 "2016-11-15T04:38:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Evil\_Economist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c89c15/32.png) [@Evil\_Economist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Economist)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2016, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-voter-id-policies-and-their-supporters-racist/772039/118 "2016-11-16T20:45:49Z")

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> [@Slash1972](#):
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> Sorry, but in the post I quoted, he did NOT say “as they are currently written”

Here you go:

> [@I Pit the ID-demanding GOP vote-suppressors (Part 1)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-id-demanding-gop-vote-suppressors-part-1/624943/9076):
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> Grin! I think they are, as they are currently written, because they have the intent of discriminating against groups of people on the basis of their statistical partisan alignment. Jim Crow laws were also immoral.

This was in the very next post, and is a demonstration of why reading in context is important.

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> In any event, a more appropriate discussion would be whether or not specific policies were too onerous, instead of, again, PEOPLE WHO WANT VOTER ID ARE RACISTS!

Cite the people who have said that, please.

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