Statistical proof that voter ID laws are racially discriminatory | Droolin Dog dot Net

In ADGN: An Algorithm for Record Linkage Using Address, Date of Birth, Gender, and Name, newly published in Statistics and Public Policy, a pair of researchers from Harvard and Tufts build a statistical model to analyze the impact of the voter ID laws passed in Republican-controlled states as part of a wider voter suppression project that was explicitly aimed at suppressing the votes of racialised people, historically likely to vote Democrat. (more…) Source: https://boingboing.net/2018/01/04/racism-by-the-numbers.html Tags: *Headlines*, #Headlines, #TheNewz, random, #TopNews, #Trending

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