voter ID law

Wyoming passed a law requiring voters to show valid ID in order to vote at the polls in person.

Government pamphlets explaining the now struck-down voter ID law at a polling station in North Carolina earlier this year. (Photo: Chris Keane/Reuters)
North Carolina’s warring lawmakers failed Monday to have the U.S. Supreme Court take up a battle over a voter-identification law struck down as discriminatory.
One of the dozens of cases denied certiorari this morning by the high court, the dispute at issue stems from infighting within the state about the future of the law.

An election official checks a voter’s photo identification at an early voting polling site in Austin, Texas.
The confusion started in the first hour of the first day of early voting in San Antonio last October.
Signs in polling places about the state’s controversial voter ID law contained outdated rules. Poll workers gave voters incorrect information. Lines were long 2014 full of people who were full of uncertainty.