Voter identification laws are a part of an ongoing strategy to roll back decades of progress on voting rights. They deprive many voters of their right to vote, reduce participation, and stand in direct opposition to our country’s trend of including more Americans in the democratic process.
As of January 2019, Iowa now as a voter ID requirement. See details.
1 http://www.gao.gov/assets/670/665966.pdf (See page 48)
2, 3, 4 Based on a computation of Iowa Department of Transportation statistics from http://www.iowadot.gov/mvd/FactsandStats.html http://www.iowadot.gov/mvd/stats/licenseddrivers.pdf
5 Richard Sobel, The High Cost of ‘Free’ Photo Voter Identification Cards (Cambridge: Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School, 2014), http://today.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/FullReportVoterIDJune20141.pdf, 2.
6 New York University’s Brennan Center For Justice, Citizens without Proof: a Survey of Americans’ Possession of Documentary Proof of Citizenship and Photo Identification, at 3.
7 According to the 2016 Perceptions of Electoral Integrity survey conducted by the Electoral Integrity Project, an independent academic project based at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and University of Sydney, Iowa received the second highest score on the Electoral Integrity Index making it one of the best states in the nation for electoral integrity. https://www.electoralintegrityproject.com/featured-dataset
8 See Florida Democratic Party v. Detzner, http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/litigation/documents/FDP-OrderGrantingPreliminaryInjunction101716.pdf.