re: Only 14 states plus DC do not require an ID to vote.

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I hid it the title of the thread. Those 11 states do not require an ID to vote. You added “photo”.

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1. What kind of ID doesn’t have a photo?
2. How is non-photo ID relevant to the save act… which stipulates that photo ID is not sufficient?

I guess if you want to be technical about ID verification, technically all 50 states are doing that in some form.

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Updated list with electoral votes (no photo ID required)California: 54
Colorado: 10
Connecticut: 7
Delaware: 3
Hawaii: 4
Illinois: 19
Maine: 4
Maryland: 10
Massachusetts: 11
Minnesota: 10
New Jersey: 14
New Mexico: 5
New York: 28
District of Columbia: 3

Total: 54 + 10 + 7 + 3 + 4 + 19 + 4 + 10 + 11 + 10 + 14 + 5 + 28 + 3 = 186These jurisdictions (14 states + DC, totaling 15 entities) are consistently identified by sources like the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) as not requiring voters to show any documentation (photo or non-photo ID) at the polls for most registered voters. Identity is typically verified by signature match against registration records.

ncsl.org

Narrow exceptions may apply (e.g., first-time voters who registered by mail/online without prior ID verification under the Help America Vote Act, or provisional ballots). In DC, most registered voters need no ID, but certain first-time mail/online registrants may need to show ID (photo or non-photo) the first time they vote.

ballotpedia.org

Electoral vote numbers are based on the 2020 census apportionment and remain the same for 2024 and 2028.

archives.gov

Voter ID rules are stable as of 2025–2026 but can be confirmed with state/D.C. election offices for any updates.

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Per Grok, Rhode Island requires photo ID to vote.

Only takes 270 to win...

I have to show my ID everytime I vote in Louisiana

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In SC, you can still cast a countable ballot on the spot without it.

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Forgot ID? Provisional ballot... you have to come back with ID to get it counted.

Can't get ID? Have to prove a hardship

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It's not something wrong with the people in those (or any) states.


except that they almost all vote for democrats...it's more than a coincidence

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None of those people referenced vote on passage of the SAVE Act. If they did, the SAVE Act would overwhelmingly pass. The problem isn't the voters in those states.

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If you didn’t have one, they’d ask you for name + DOB & your vote would count.

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They have a list showing who is registered, where they live, etc. With local control over voting, it is impossible to slip large numbers of people onto the rolls who do not live there. The available addresses are limited by the actual places to live.

The government should pass a law that any county that takes over a certain time to add up the votes and release it to the public or get a certain percentage more voter turn out then average gets audited by the federal government. These counties taking more then 3 hours to count votes is crazy so is sone with unrealistic voter turn out .

Let’s not certify election results from a non id state. No way to know if it legit. Illegal vote acceptance is voter suppression. Electoral college votes no longer count. No voting senators or voting house members.

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The citizens in those states have been polled. They WANT the SAVE Act passed, but they have no vote, and are not the problem here.

The Senators vote. The Senators defy their voters, vote against the SAVE Act, and are thus the problem.

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Trump has repeatedly given them the opportunity to do the right thing by the American people, and our "elected" officials have proven themselves incapable of doing that.

They refused the carrot.

Now they get the stick.