Vote ID =’ anti-democratic’
A recent study out of UCLA says white Americans ‘ “anti-democratic views” are” highly linked” to prejudiced feelings towards immigrants.
Study artist Joshua Ferrer, a UCLA PhD candidate and receiving professor at American University, cited Donald Trump’s “attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential poll results” as a catalyst for instructions by the press and scientists about the” state of America’s democracy”, PsyPost information.
Indeed, the introduction of the study by Ferrer’s and co-author Christopher Palmisano, published in the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, begins with an alarming description of January 6, 2020: when” the world watched as thousands of protesters stormed the U. S. Capitol, attempting to overturn the results of a democratic election”.
The introduction continues,” This event took place following a months-long campaign by Trump and his Republican allies to delegitimize the results of the presidential election.”
There is only one reason the Democrats could possibly want to stop voter ID, voter ID, and stop citizenship confirmation in his speech to the insurrectionists that day:” They want to steal the election. They want to eliminate the election.”’ Trump said.
For the study, “anti-democratic” also means things like having to show ID at polling places (” some scholars have found that voter ID laws disproportionately affect racial minorities” ), and being against mail-in ballots and automatic voter registration.
White people experience discrimination, and there are other negative racial feelings that include those that claim that minorities are “demanding too much or gaining unfair advantages.”
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Ferrer ( pictured ) conceded that “like all survey-based research”, his study “relies on self-reported attitudes and beliefs which may not always perfectly reflect individuals ‘ true feelings or behaviors”.
White Americans who expressed higher levels of racial resentment, anti-immigrant sentiment, or who believed that white people face discrimination were significantly more likely to support voting restrictions, oppose voting expansions, believe in voter fraud, and support overturning election results. This relationship held even when considering other factors like political party affiliation, ideology, and support for Donald Trump. …
Favorability toward President Trump is the most explicative factor, according to Ferrer, in explaining support for voting restrictions, opposition to voting expansions, belief in widespread voter fraud, and support for overturning democratic election results. ” However, it should be noted that the relationship between anti-democratic beliefs and racial attitudes persists even after accounting for Trump favorability, as well as partisanship, ideology, education, gender, age, income, religion, and conspiratorial beliefs”.
According to a Pew survey conducted last year, 81 percent of Americans support having identification when voting, and 82 percent favor having a printed paper backup for electronic voting machines. Fifty-seven percent also favor mail-in voting, automatic voter registration for “eligible” voters, and automatic voter registration.
On the latter three issues, there were significantly larger partisan differences than on the first two.
According to the study, “even if such laws as voter ID have no measurable impact on overall turnout or turnout of racial minorities,” their intention appears clearly to be targeted toward these objectives, undermining the principle of an inclusive democracy.
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