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• Charles Stewart, Founder and Director of the MIT Election Lab () : “Regardless of how you poll, voters like a requirement for photo ID…I mean it's kind of a no-brainer for a large swath of the American public…including most Democrats.”
• Harvard CAPS/Harris: 81% of Americans favor () voter ID, including 79% of independents and 70% of Democrats.
• Pew Research Center: 83% of Americans — including () wide majorities () of Democrats, independents, Whites, Blacks, and Latinos — favor () voter ID requirements.
• Gallup: 84% support () voter ID, with () ) 98% of Republicans, 84% of independents, and 67% of Democrats on board — while an equally robust 83% back () proof of citizenship for voter registration.
• Rasmussen Reports: 75% support () voter ID, with support increasing () over the past decade.
• Additional surveys, including from Napolitan News Service () and The Center Square () , consistently reveal extraordinary bipartisan support for voter ID.
FACT: Voter ID laws have no measurable negative effect on turnout.
• Following Georgia’s 2021 voter ID law, the state achieved record turnout () in both the 2022 and 2024 elections.
• A 2021 review () by the National Bureau of Economic Research, analyzing a decade of data, determined voter ID laws “have no negative effect on registration or turnout, overall or for any group defined by race, gender, age, or party affiliation.”
• A 2014 study () in the Election Law Journal found “little support for the hypothesis that notification of ID requirements depresses turnout.”
• A 2023 report () by the America First Policy Institute stated voter ID laws are “not a significant cause for decreased turnout” and “do not negatively affect minority or demographic-specific turnout,” noting that several states (and entire countries () ) with photo ID laws actually had higher turnout than those without.
• A 2009 study () in PS: Political Science & Politics concluded voter ID laws “have not had a significant impact on voting” and show “little to no effect on aggregate or individual-level turnout.”
• A 2006 study () by the Crime Prevention Research Center found “[i]t is hard to see any evidence that voting regulations differentially harm either minorities, the elderly, or the poor,” and that “[r]egulations that prevent fraud are shown to actually increase the voter participation rate.”
• A 2007 analysis () by the Heritage Foundation found that “voter identification requirements, such as requiring non-photo and photo identification, have virtually no suppressive effect on reported voter turnout.”
FACT: Voting by mail increases the risk of fraud.
• The Commission on Federal Election Reform () warned that voting by mail is “likely to increase the risks of fraud and of contested elections,” that “absentee ballots remain the largest source of potential voter fraud,” and that “vote buying schemes are far more difficult to detect when citizens vote by mail.”