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Tennessee's voter identification laws keep elections free and fair, but Democrats want to weaken these laws while showing hypocrisy in the meantime. Opinion: Democrats are wrong to criticize voter ...
Justice David Souter, joined by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, filed a dissenting opinion, which would have declared the voter ID laws unconstitutional. Souter argued that Indiana had the burden of producing actual evidence of the existence of fraud, as opposed to relying on abstract harms, before imposing "an unreasonable and irrelevant burden ...
Signs like this reminded N.C. voters about the state’s new Voter ID law. It’s one of several voting rights related laws passed by the N.C. General Assembly during the 2023 session.
In February, Pew Research also found majority support for photo ID requirements, early voting, and allowing anybody to vote by mail. Ninety-five percent of Republicans favored photo ID, with the ...
The study also showed that support depends on survey framing: when questions biased against voter ID laws are asked, support drops 15% compared to when questions favorable to voter ID laws are asked. [178] A 2016 study showed that emphasizing the adverse effects of voter ID laws on eligible voters decreased popular support for such laws. [179]
Public opinion polls have shown broad support for voter ID laws among voters in the United States. A 2011 Rasmussen poll found that 75% of likely voters "believe voters should be required to show photo identification, such as a driver's license, before being allowed to vote."
In North Carolina, for example, a voter ID law approved by voters in 2018 was challenged in court within 15 minutes of being enacted. The state supreme court eventually struck down the law, ruling ...
HB 554 prevents people from voting in New Hampshire if they maintained a domicile address in another state; HB 362 forbids students from registering to vote at their college address; and HB 429 prohibits the use of a college ID as a voter ID. As of February 8, 2021, at least seven other bills that would restrict voting access have been ...