Of the 19 states won by Vice President Kamala Harris during the 2024 presidential election, 18 of them don’t require voters to show photo identification to vote, according to a National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) review of laws in effect as of April 2024.
Thirty-six of the 50 states in the U.S. require voters to provide some form of identification to cast a ballot, according to the NCSL. Of these, 12 do not require a photo ID.
Of the 19 states Harris won, 12 — California, Oregon, New Mexico, Minnesota, Illinois, Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Hawaii and Maryland — require no document to vote, according to the NCSL.
The Conference lists five of the other seven states Harris won as states where ID is requested, but “photo not required.” Those states are Colorado, Washington, Delaware, Connecticut and Virginia.
Colorado and Washington hold all elections by mail, so their limited ID laws only affect in-person voters, according to the Conference.
In Maryland, we call them “FREELOADERS” or simply “Loafers”.. 🙂