Accumulating Evidence of the Impact of Voter ID Laws: Student Engagement in the Political Process

Recently, voter ID laws have been instituted, modified, or overturned in many states in the U.S. As these laws change, it is important to have accurate measures of their impact. We present the data collection methods and results of class projects that attempted to quantify the impact of the voter ID laws in areas of three states. We also summarize the types of data used to assess the impact of voter ID laws and discuss how our data address some of the shortcomings of the usual techniques for assessing the impact of voter ID laws.

近期，美国多个州相继出台、修订或废止了选民身份证件法（Voter ID Laws）。随着此类法律法规的更迭，精准评估其影响的相关工作至关重要。本文公开了三项针对美国三个州部分区域开展的选民身份证件法影响量化分析课程项目的数据收集方法与研究成果。此外，我们梳理了用于评估选民身份证件法影响的各类数据类型，并探讨了本数据集如何弥补现有主流评估方法存在的部分缺陷。