How News Sources Portray Voter Identification Policies
This chart shows how major news sources across the ideological spectrum frame voter identification policies, from left to right-leaning perspectives.
To preface, a voter identification law is a law that requires a person to show some form of identification in order to vote. The main point of contention, as it pertains to Voter Identification Laws, is that minorities are being affected disproportionately due to their lack of identification. Despite this contention, a majority of adults strongly favor requiring all voters to show government-issued photo identification to vote (76%). Republicans are considerably more likely than Democrats to favor photo identification requirements for voting (81% in favor compared with 30% of Democrats), even as majorities in both partisan groups favor this policy. Polling shows that the majority of Americans support some type of photo identification requirement with just 18% of Americans opposing it.
Politicians Who Oppose Voter Identification Rights
Joe Biden
“(Biden’s reaction on sweeping elections bill passed in Georgia that required voters who seek absentee ballots have to provide a copy of their identification or the number of their Georgia drivers license or state ID to both apply for and return the ballot): “What Im worried about is how un-American this whole initiative is. Its sick. Its sick.”
Kamala Harris
“They are deploying suppressive voter ID laws, racial gerrymandering, voter roll purges, precinct closures and reduced early-voting days all of which have been laser-targeted toward communities of color since the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in 2013.”
Politicians Who Support Voter Identification Rights
Donald Trump
“A very important effort is now underway in Nevada to amend the State Constitution to require VOTER ID. But this can only happen if enough Citizens of Nevada sign the Petition to put the proposed VOTER ID Amendment on the Ballot for the November 5, 2024 Election.”
J.D. Vance
“We need voter ID in this country ladies and gentlemen. If youre going to cast a ballot, show a piece of identification.”
