Morning Joe Incorrectly Points To High Voter Turnout In WI To Downplay Impact Of Voter ID Law
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MSNBC's Morning Joe co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski mocked reports that Wisconsin's voter ID law could prevent potential voters from voting in the state's April 5 presidential primary, pointing to the fact that “GOP turnout easily broke the record set 36 years ago” and calling such concerns “overplayed,” “breathless stories.” In fact, multiple reports found the WI law inhibited state college students from voting because many were not able to use their school-issued IDs and left due to long lines. Additionally, experts have explained that conclusions about the impact of voter ID laws cannot be drawn based only on high voter turnout. PolitiFact called such a conclusion a “logical fallacy” and former NYU law professor Sundeep Iyer said it mistakes “simple correlation for causation” and is “at best unscientific, at worst just plain wrong.” From the April 6 edition of MSNBC's Morning Joe: