Senators Clash Over Photo ID, Election Security, Gerrymandering, and Voter Suppression

“Why are we still arguing about voter ID requirements?” asked Hans von Spakovsky from the witness table of a March 12 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the protection of voting rights. Reasonable election security “is not voter suppression,” he said. Mr. Spakovsky, the manager of the Election Law Reform Initiative and Senior Legal Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, told the committee that 10 to 15 years of data demonstrate that voter ID requirements have “no negative effect on voter participation.” To underscore his point, Mr. Spakovsky cited U.S. Census data that showed that the national voter turnout in 2020 of 66.8 percent was just nine-tenths of one percent lower than the record of 67.7 percent set in 1992....