Critics of voter ID laws always cry, “Voter suppression!” and they especially cry, “Black voter suppression!”

Here are some actual facts from North Carolina’s 2014 mid-term elections—an especially stern test since voter turnout typically is lower than in Presidential elections:

• the percentage of age-eligible, non-Hispanic black residents who turned out to vote in North Carolina rose to 41.1% in November 2014 from 38.5% in November 2010
• [t]he percentage of black registrants voting increased to 42.2% from 40.3% in the same period
• the black share of votes cast increased to 21.4% from 20.1%
• [t]he absolute number of black voters increased 16%, to 628,004 from 539,646

And in another state, according to Census Bureau surveys

• turnout among blacks of voting age in Tennessee in 2012 remained stable within the margin of error
• [turnout] was around 4% higher than white turnout
• [t]urnout among Hispanic voters rose.

With suppression like this, who needs get out the vote programs?