Montana Women's Lobby

A new study details the barriers faced by voters in ten states – Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin – now that unprecedented voter ID laws have been enacted. The voter identification required by these new laws is not equally accessible to all voters, due to limited office hours, high cost of required documents, and the problem of transportation to remote government offices. According to the study, more than 10 million voters face difficulty traveling to ID-issuing offices, and about half a million eligible voters have no access to a vehicle by which to travel to their office. The report concludes that “voter ID laws will make it harder for hundreds of thousands of poor Americans to vote.”