After spending years falsely claiming Republican-led election integrity efforts are suppressing the votes of racial minorities, Democrats have found a new demographic to add to their list of so-called “oppressed” groups: college students.
Over the past few weeks, legacy media outlets have run several hit-pieces attacking Republican-controlled state legislatures for passing laws prohibiting college students from using their student ID as a form of voter identification. Predictably, these outlets gloss over how the laws in question are designed to ensure students are voting in the state in which they’re legal residents.
In a March 29 article titled, “Republicans Face Setbacks in Push to Tighten Voting Laws on College Campuses,” The New York Times accused Republican lawmakers of enacting “new obstacles to voting for college students.” The article takes specific aim at Idaho’s HB 124, which stipulates that student identification cards are no longer considered valid forms of voter ID.
“Alarmed over young people increasingly proving to be a force for Democrats at the ballot box, Republican lawmakers in a number of states have been trying to enact new obstacles to voting for college students,” the Times article states, later framing Republicans’ control of the Idaho legislature as a “power monopoly.” Unsurprisingly, the Times omits the fact that Idaho law permits residents to sign a sworn affidavit when voting if they don’t possess a valid form of voter ID.
The New York Times isn’t the only outlet guilty of employing Democrats’ rhetoric to smear Republicans’ election integrity efforts. On March 28,
