Research

The Brennan Center submitted letters to election officials in several Ohio Counties urging them to take steps to ensure that provisional ballots are not rejected due to inflexible and unreliable exact-match verification procedures.  Such procedures routinely identify registered voters as unregistered, and can lead to the disenfranchisement of eligible voters because of minor typos by election officials.

Every voter should demonstrate that they are who they say they are before voting. That form of proof should not include restrictive documentation requirements like overly burdensome photo ID or redundant proof of citizenship requirements that serve to block millions of eligible American citizens from voting.