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BY MIKE BEBERNES<\/a>, YAHOO NEWS \u2014 OCTOBER 10, 2024<\/p>\n

Millions of voters throughout the United States will face tougher identification requirements when they head to the polls next month thanks to a wave of new laws that have been enacted since the 2020 election.<\/p>\n

While experts say voter ID laws won\u2019t be the most important factor in the presidential election, many believe they play a crucial role in what is expected to be an incredibly tight race.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause we use the Electoral College \u2026 if we do anything that suppresses turnout, really from any group, that\u2019s going to change the outcome,\u201d said Andrea Benjamin, an associate professor of African and African American Studies at the University of Oklahoma, who has studied the impact of voter ID laws.<\/p>\n

Eight states, home to 29 million people of voting age, have either imposed voter identification requirements for the first time or made existing rules tougher since the last presidential election. With those new laws in place, twelve states<\/a>\u00a0now have what are classified as strict voter ID laws, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures,\u00a0<\/strong>meaning that many people who lack proper identification will not be able to vote. Another two dozen states ask voters to show ID but offer workarounds that still allow those without it to cast ballots.<\/p>\n

Four of the seven swing states that will likely determine the winner in the presidential election \u2014 Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina and Wisconsin \u2014 have strict voter ID laws on the books and polls suggest each of them could be decided by a razor-thin margin.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don’t think it’s getting the attention that it deserves given the impact it’s going to have on the election,\u201d said Ceridwen Cherry, legal director for VoteRiders<\/a>, a nonpartisan organization that helps people navigate the process of acquiring the IDs they need to vote.<\/p>\n

Read the full article at Yahoo News<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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