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State seeks to keep voter ID law in place for handful of elections
There was a sparse amount of voters at the Brook Hollow Branch of...
There was a sparse amount of voters at the Brook Hollow Branch of...
“Look, in Kansas, for example, we put our photo ID law in place in 2012. So, if you want to test the effect on participation, you look at the 2010 election and the 2014, which we did. In the rest of the country, participation dropped severely between 2010 and 2014.Source: Do voter ID laws help or hurt voter turnout?...
My grandmother Sylvia moved from Brooklyn to Iowa when she was 89 years old. It was a culture shock, to say the least. When my mom took her to vote, she complained of the candidates, “there isn’t anybody who’s Jewish!”Source: Iowa’s New Voter-ID Law Would Have Disenfranchised My Grandmother...
The Iowa Senate gave final approval Thursday to contentious legislation that will require voters to show government-issued identification at the polls and will reduce the time period for early voting. "This change goes hand in hand with a voter suppression bill," Bisignano said. The legislation makes sweeping changes to Iowa's elections laws that Republicans say are needed to ensure the...
An actual lack of a state approved photo ID kept virtually no one from turning out to vote in 2016. Photo voter ID requirements don’t prevent eligible voters from voting.Source: “Virtually no one” kept from voting by Texas’ voter ID law...
Voting and ID Requirements: A Survey of Registered Voters in Three States:Since the 2000 election, one of the most contentious issues in election administration has been voter identification requirements. This article provides the results of a survey of registered voters in Indiana, Maryland, and Mississippi, which aimed to explore the extent to which ID requirements pose a problem (if any)...