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Cooper authored the paper on behalf of the National Center for Public Policy Research. As TPM reported in April, the NCPPR — which described itself as a “conservative, free-market, non-profit think-tank” — formed a Voter Identification Task Force to continue ALEC’s “excellent work” in “promoting measures to enhance integrity in voting.”
While dubbed a “study” by Fox News and the Daily Caller, Cooper’s 1,898 word piece reads more like an article you’d read on TownHall.com, where Cooper wrote a regular column. His NCPPR piece cobbles together news reports about voter fraud allegations (including absentee ballot fraud, which wouldn’t be prevented by voter ID) and concludes that the voter fraud schemes “often target the same black voters once deprived under Jim Crow.”
Cooper called state data showing that individuals in heavily minority areas of Pennsylvania were less likely to have a state issued ID flawed, saying voter ID laws don’t create a barrier to the polls.
“There’s not been a study that says that if 18 percent of the people don’t have an ID, that 18 percent of the people wouldn’t vote. That’s a logical leap that actually can’t be made,” Cooper said.
“Merely because 18 percent do not have at present have the ID card it does not follow that lawfully, that is an impediment that meets the standard of a hurdle that would prevent a person from being able to vote,” Cooper added.
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