# How do voter ID laws suppress minority votes? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [August 11, 2013, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-voter-id-laws-suppress-minority-votes/665968 "2013-08-11T22:09:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 86
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2013, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-voter-id-laws-suppress-minority-votes/665968/86 "2013-08-13T00:50:01Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > The reason for arguing from the law is that it provides finality. You can assert this is wrong; i assert it’s right – where does that leave us? **Not** with “finality,” just because legislatures and courts have decided. > [@Bricker](#): > > We have a system in this country of allowing competing views to be heard in the marketplace of ideas, and ultimately enacting into law the will of the people, as measured by their elected representatives. In this case, by almost any measure, you lose: the legislatures voted it in; the courts approve; polls show a strong majority of the public approves as well. But, that process **never ends.** As I said in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16529806&highlight=process#post16529806): > [@The most important thing you need to know about the voter ID issue . . .](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-important-thing-you-need-to-know-about-the-voter-id-issue/664813/248): > > Yes, and this kind of Intertubes-wrangle, like discussions in bars and coffeehouses and at dinner-tables and at “Town Hall” meetings, is all **part** of that political process, as it shapes the parameters of the debate and positions the boundaries of the Overton Window and affects how everything plays out at the polls on e-day. There is a process, and we are doing it now. > > So . . . what is your **point,** here? What **is** your point, here? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-voter-id-laws-suppress-minority-votes/665968)._