12 states have new voter ID laws. Ohio's strict rules blocked 8,000 from voting
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54% : South Carolina and Indiana stiffened ID requirements for mail-in ballots only.54% : The same law that stiffened ID on in-person voting stiffened ID requirements for getting absentee ballots, and eliminated in-person early voting the Monday before an election.
51% : Analysts say either party could win that race come Nov. 5."The Ohio voter ID law only accepts four types of ID," said Ceridwen Cherry, the legal director for Vote Riders, an advocacy group that helps people get voter ID.
50% : A January poll from Pew Research Center found that 69% of Democrats and 95% of Republicans support requiring people to show government-issued photo ID to vote.Ohio's law is so strict that the Heritage Foundation catapulted the state up the list from No. 17 in 2022
48% : In 2024, since more states have stiffened their laws, Ohio is No. 13, right behind Texas.
41% : "And while voters in many other states with strict voter ID laws can use some form of expired ID to vote, Ohio makes no such allowance, making its law among the strictest of the strict.
32% : "What we see as a consistent pattern is that voter ID laws are sort of passed with the public messaging to address supposed voter fraud," said Ceridwen Cherry, the legal director for Vote Riders.
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