Like It or Not, Voter ID Is Not Working

Welp, we told you that there would be a lot of confusion at the polls on Super Tuesday in states with new voting guidelines in place. There was. The Election Protection group, which fields complaints from voters, reports that the bulk of election-day problems were in Alabama, Georgia, and Texas. Many of those concerned new voter ID rules, as was also the case in Virginia, Think Progress reports.

As CityLab noted Tuesday, those states are among the Super Tuesday states with the densest populations of black and Latino voters—the people most likely to get unnecessarily harassed by voter ID laws. It is important to recognize that these states were all once covered by a special section of the Voting Rights Act that provided extra protection from election policies that overburden or discriminate against voters of color. That section was effectively dismantled by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2013.