The Impact of Voter ID Laws in County Turnout in the 2016 Presidential Election

• In Event: Much Sound and Fury or the New Jim Crow? The Twenty-First Century's Restrictive New Voting Laws in the States

Brief Overview

A cross-sectional, county-level data analysis of county-level data from 2016 produces results pointing to a possible backlash effect among African-American voter.

Author

• Ryan Voris, Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College