John Lott, President of the Crime Prevention Research Center appeared on the KGVO Talk Back program on Thursday to answer questions from listeners and talk about his work.
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As Democrats continue to loosen voting restrictions, Crime Prevention Research Center President John Lott says Europe could be an example for why tight voting laws are necessary. One America’s John Hines has more from Washington.
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So much Jim Crow voter suppression. And the lone outlier government the recently Brexited UK has proposed a new law to institute ID requirements at the polls, too. Via
Real Clear Investigations, a further piece of support for why common-sense integrity measures like this, while angrily decried by American progressives, are in fact widely popular among normal people. It s beyond reasonable to ask voters to confirm their identity and eligibility prior to allowing them to cast a ballot. Such commonplace provisions are the rule, not the exception among Western democracies:
46 of 47 European countries require photo identification to vote https://t.co/GyDwyStwu9 Ryan Fazio (@ryanfazio) June 3, 2021
Democrats and much of the media are pushing to make permanent the extraordinary, pandemic-driven measures to relax voting rules during the 2020 elections warning anew of racist voter “suppression” otherwise. Yet democracies in Europe and elsewhere tell a different story of the benefits of stricter voter ID requirements after hard lessons learned.