I lived in a state that made it insanely difficult to register to vote, but easy to vote. Registration required two forms of ID, one with your picture, both with address.

A while ago, the state changed the rules so that one form of ID was required to register (photo required) and one form of ID required to vote (photo required).

This made registering much, much easier, which made voting much much easier, especially for young people.

There was national freak out over this. HOLY FUCKING SHIT THE REPUBLICANS ARE REQUIRING IDS TO VOTE! YOUNG PEOPLE AND MINORITIES WONT BE ABLE TO VOTE!

Voting rates went up, especially among the young. The only people who had problems were very elderly people who had lived at the same address for long time (no need to register) and we’re had stopped driving. Most were Republican.

Partisan organizations released non-peer reviewed studies showing the vote was superseded. Partisan publications (for example, Mother Jones) treated these press releases as fact, but mainstream fact checkers pointed out they were bullshit. They have since been largely scrubbed from the Internet.

I can’t imagine why it’s OK to require two forms of ID to register (a consensus position as of 2007 or so), but requiring a single ID to register and vote is a human rights violation.