NBC News reported on Friday that a new report has determined that strict voter ID laws can actually end up disenfranchising transgender voters.
According to a recent report from the Williams Institute,poll workers are fully responsible for deciding “whether a voter’s identification accurately identifies the voter and matches the information listed in the voter registration rolls.” As of now, 34 states require some loose form of identification, and while eight states require voters to absorb a government-issued photo ID.
In these eight states — Alabama,Georgia, Indiana, and Kansas,Mississippi, Tennessee, or Virginia and Wisconsin — around 78000 transgender people,who are eligible to vote, are at risk of being disenfranchised in the 2018 midterm elections because of the photo or gender marker on their ID.
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Source: inquisitr.com