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January 4, 2018 07:49 am PST
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/3hQC_6YWluo/racism-by-the-numbers.html
Statistical proof that voter ID laws are racially discriminatory
In ADGN: An Algorithm for Record Linkage Using Address, Date of Birth, Gender, and Name, newly published in Statistics and Public Policy, a pair of researchers from Harvard and Tufts build a statistical model to analyze the impact of the voter ID laws passed in Republican-controlled states as part of a wider voter suppression project that was explicitly aimed at suppressing the votes of racialised people, historically likely to vote Democrat. (more…)
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