THE GATEWAY HISPANIC | Published November 12, 2024
Voting is very simple in the United States, due to the lack of a national identification document and the laxity of many state laws. In some states, no proof of nationality is required when registering to vote or identification when casting a vote. In left-wing California, Governor Gavin Newsom (Democrat), nephew of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, has banned local governments from requiring an ID, so many people have been able to vote without any proof of who they say they are other than their word.
The number of states that free their citizens from the hassle of identifying themselves at the polls is 14, plus the capital, Washington, which is not a state but elects three delegates to the electoral college and where Trump has received less than 75% of the votes.
The list includes Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Illinois, Minnesota, New Mexico, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, California and Hawaii.
Of the 19 states that Vice President Kamala Harris won in the November 5 election, 13 belong to this group, including California and New York, which contribute 82 delegates to the electoral college, 19% of the total number. And, of course, the capital, where Trump only obtained a little more than 20,000 votes.
Democrats oppose identification at the polls on the grounds that it is discriminatory and even racist. However, the Harris-Walz ticket came first in some of the states that require photo identification, such as New Hampshire and Rhode Island, or only name identification, such as Connecticut, Delaware, Virginia and Colorado.
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A poll worker checks a voter’s ID on November 5, 2024, in Asheville, North Carolina. (Photo by Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images)
THE DISPATCH | Published November 12, 2024
Assessing Claims About Kamala Harris Winning States Without Voter ID Laws
Social media users suggest falsely that she won every state in which voters do not need identification.
Donald Trump won the 2024 election, but that has not stopped right-wing media outlets and social media users from making misleading claims about election integrity.
Last Thursday, Newsmax host Carl Higbie aired a map showing the states that Vice President Kamala Harris won and highlighted that nearly all of them do not require voters to present identification. “I find it funny that almost all the states that Harris won don’t require photo ID,” Higbie said. “Wow, wow. It’s almost like where it’s easier to cheat, the cheaters win. I never would have thought,” Shawn Farash, a right-wing internet podcaster who joined Higbie on-air, reacted. “I never would have thought.”
On Sunday, Elon Musk tweeted out an image of the Newsmax map. “Must be a coincidence,” he wrote, along with an eye-roll emoji. “Dear President-elect Trump,” Hollywood actor James Woods also tweeted with the image. “We need government issued FREE photo ID required for all federal elections. This must be enacted, or we will be right back in the socialist hell you just saved us from.”
The Newsmax map shows Harris winning two states that require photo ID, New Hampshire and Rhode Island. That has not stopped social media users from claiming that Harris won only states with no voter ID laws, nor from saying that she won every state with no photo ID. Neither claim is true.
“Harris won the states with no voter ID requirements,” one X user, Dennis Michael Lynch—a self-described “unapologetic truth teller”—tweeted Sunday with the Newsmax map. “Democrats won every NO ID REQUIRED state,” another X user tweeted with the image. “Democrats win the States without Voter ID,” tweeted another X user, “Publius,” to his more than 60,000 followers.
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