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Elections: Issues Related to State Voter Identification Laws

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Non-Systematic Review

Source: U.S. Government Accountability Office

Last Reviewed: February 2015

Workgroups: Social Determinants of Health Workgroup

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) reviewed issues related to voter ID laws. This report summarizes GAO’s review of the available literature and findings on:

  • Voter’s ownership of and direct costs to obtain select IDs
  • Analyses of available data regarding how, if at all, voter ID laws have affected turnout in select states
  • To what extent provisional ballots were cast due to ID reasons in select states
  • What challenges may exist in using available information to estimate the incidence of in-person voter fraud
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Objectives related to this resource (1)

Increase the proportion of the voting-age citizens who vote — SDOH‑07
Getting worse

Suggested Citation

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U.S. Government Accountability Office. (2015). Elections: Issues Related to State Voter Identification Laws. Retrieved from https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-14-634.