Do Republicans win elections by preventing minorities, blacks, Latinos, and others from voting?

For those in the left and their allies in the major media, the answer is yes.

Even more than that, it's an article of faith.

The usual example they offer is state laws.

Often passed by Republican majority legislatures, requiring voters to present a photo ID at their polling place.

Something required in almost every other democracy in the world.

According to the left, voter ID depresses minority turnout and is therefore a blatant form of racial discrimination.

But there's a problem with this accusation. There's no evidence to support it.

Minorities are voting in greater numbers and at higher percentages than ever before.

The facts and figures are there for anyone to see.

Still, progressives and most of the political press don't seem to have noticed.

Or maybe they just don't want to look.

At a 2019 NAACP dinner in Detroit, California Senator Kamala Harris told the audience that voter suppression in Georgia and Florida

cost Democrats gubernatorial races in the 2018 midterm elections.

Let's say this loud and clear, said Ms. Harris.

Without voter suppression, Stacey Abrams would be the governor of Georgia.

And Drew Gillum is the governor of Florida.

A few days earlier, Ms. Abrams herself.

Apparently still bitter over her defeat made a similar claim.

We had an architect of voter suppression that spent the last eight years knitting together a system of voter suppression.

That is unparalleled in America, said Ms. Abrams, in reference to her Republican opponent, a former Georgia Secretary of State.

But if minorities are harmed by mandating voter ID and other anti-fraud measures such as removing inactive voters from registration roles,

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