WE NEED VOTER ID LAWS ASAP

A total of 35 states have laws requesting or requiring voters to show some form of identification at the polls. Scroll over the map below for state-by-state details.

Note: On April 1, 2022, the Arkansas Supreme Court granted an emergency stay in the lawsuit against Act 249, which passed in 2021 and made changes to Arkansas's voter ID law, allowing the law to go into effect. The case is pending before the state Supreme Court.

The remaining 15 states and D.C. use other methods to verify the identity of voters. Most frequently, other identifying information provided at the polling place, such as a signature, is checked against information on file. See NCSL’s Voter Verification Without ID Documents.