Add Breitbart.com editor-in-chief Joel Pollak to the list of right-wing media dismissing voter identification law concerns despite evidence showing that such laws have kept many eligible voters, including the elderly and racial minorities, from voting.

Pollak writes that “voting rights are not threatened in the least by voter ID laws,” adding that "[f]raud, not voter ID, is the only danger."

But evidence paints a clear picture: voter ID laws have kept otherwise eligible voters from having their vote counted. For instance, a May 2008 Los Angeles Times article reported that elderly nuns and college students “were turned away from polls” after Indiana's voter ID law was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Additionally a report on voter ID laws from NYU's Brennan Center for Justice found that voter identification and other laws “could make it significantly harder for more than five million eligible voters to cast ballots in 2012.” Keesha Gaskins, senior counsel for the Brennan Center's Democracy Program, found that the laws are more likely to impact minority voters, writing:

Looking at voter ID laws alone, we know that although 11 percent of Americans lack government-issued photo ID, 25 percent of African-Americans, 16 percent of Hispanics, and 18 percent of elderly voters do not have this form of ID. States have also passed restrictions on early voting and community voter registration drives. Communities of color are more than twice as likely to register to vote with these groups, and they use early voting days at a much higher rate than the general population.

Furthermore, despite Pollak's suggestion that voter fraud is a widespread issue, a Supreme Court plurality found in 2008 that actual instances of voter fraud are few and “scattered.” The Brennan Center has found that allegations of voter fraud “simply do not pan out” and distract from “real [election] problems that need real solutions.” Even voter ID law proponent and right-wing commentator Hans von Spakovsky has acknowledged that there's no “massive fraud in American elections.”