Nebraskans have approved a new voter photo identification requirement for future elections, handing a win to Republicans who for years have tried to get the election integrity measure passed in the state’s legislature but met with opposition. Called Nebraska Initiative 432, the measure was on the ballot in the midterm election as a proposal to…

Nebraskans will be asked to make their state the 22nd to require valid photo identification to vote when they go to the polls on Nov. 8, one of four election integrity measures on ballots nationwide this fall. Nebraska’s Initiative 432 and Arizona’s Proposition 309 seek to incorporate more stringent ID requirements into state election laws….

Commentary During recent election seasons there has been a debate over whether a voter must present an identification card to cast a ballot and if so, what type? Congressional Democrats are considering legislation that would provide secure identification cards, not to U.S. citizens for the purpose of voting, but to those who crossed our southern border…

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson signed a new election law on Wednesday that will require a voter to show a photo ID to vote in the coming general election. The new law, House Bill 1878, requires voters to show one of the following photo IDs at polling sites: nonexpired Missouri driver’s license, nonexpired state nondriver’s license,…

The Supreme Court ruled 8-1 on June 23 that North Carolina’s Republican-controlled legislature must be allowed to step in to advocate for a heavily litigated voter ID law in court because Josh Stein, the state’s Democratic attorney general, allegedly isn’t doing enough to defend the statute. Republican lawmakers have long complained that Stein’s advocacy has…

Election fraud in the United States dates back to the late 19th century and most often it involves absentee ballots, said Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation and a former commissioner on the Federal Election Commission. Absentee ballots are the only kind of ballots that are voted outside the supervision…

The Elections Bill passed on Wednesday night, making it mandatory for voters to show photographic ID across polling booths in Great Britain. Unlike elections in Europe, where 47 countries need a mandatory national ID card to vote, the new law has brought an end to an era for Great Britain, where identification or even polling…

The UK’s House of Lords has inflicted a defeat on the government over its plans to introduce photographic voter ID. Voters casting their vote in polling stations in England, Scotland, and Wales currently do not need to present any form of identification, though photographic voter ID is a requirement in Northern Ireland. The Conservative Party’s…

The certainty of protracted litigation has prompted sponsors of a California Voter ID initiative to push their prospective 2022 ballot measure to 2024. Reform California filed its prospective ballot measure, Voter Identification and Registration Requirements Initiative, in September and received clearance shortly after to begin collecting the 997,139 signatures necessary by the April 26 deadline…

When the Arizona House on Feb. 28 passed a resolution to place a proposed statute expanding voter identification requirements on November’s ballot, it became the first election integrity measure to qualify for public referendum in 2022. Sponsors of similar citizen-initiated proposed voter ID statutes and constitutional amendments are collecting signatures in four states—Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska,…