The Brennan Center Voting Rights and Elections Project
Alabama, Kansas, Mississippi, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin all passed new voter ID laws in their 2011 or 2012 legislative sessions. We've compiled their vital details on each new law in this document.
Voter Challengers examines the laws that give rise to citizen-led challenge efforts and the difficulties such efforts create for both voters and election officials. It focuses on the shortcomings of existing voter challenge rules, the historical origins of these laws, the recent problems challengers have caused, and how lawmakers and election officials have responded to those problems.
This paper addresses various ways that ballot security initiatives can result in discriminatory, unfair, and intimidating practices surrounding voting and voter registration.
Ten states now have unprecedented restrictive voter ID laws, which require citizens to produce specific types of government-issued photo identification before they can vote. Legal precedent requires these states to provide free photo ID to eligible voters who do not have one. Unfortunately, these free IDs are not equally accessible to all voters.
Audio from a media telebriefing held by the Brennan Center for Justice and New America Media on the challenge of restrictive voter ID laws, featuring Reps. Gwen Moore (D-WI) and Keith Ellison (D-MN).
