House Passes Measure Requiring Voter ID In Federal Elections

Final Vote:
🟢 Yes: 218
🔴 No: 213

Democrat YES Votes:
🔵 Henry Cuellar (D-TX) pic.twitter.com/wbjDMW8ptw

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The legislation now moves to the U.S. Senate, where its fate is uncertain. Senate leaders have indicated it will face additional debate and possible amendments.

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., said he expected to see “a lot of public pressure on the Senate to move that bill to the president.” Billionaire Elon Musk has repeatedly endorsed the bill on his social media platform, while conservative influencer Scott Presler has been actively promoting it on Capitol Hill this week.

Roy is correct in stating that the vast majority of Americans – Republicans and Democrats – favor requiring an ID to vote, as noted last week by CNN’s chief data cruncher, Harry Enten.

“Photo ID to vote, and the American people are with NickiMinaj. Because what are we talking about here. Take a look here, favor voter ID to vote. Look, I’ve got all this polling here going back since 2018 you’ll notice on all of it, its all north of 75 percent,” CNN’s Harry Enten said. “Seventy-six percent, 76 percent, 76 percent, 81 percent, and then 83 percent in the last year of Americans agree with Nicki Minaj, they favor photo ID to be able to vote.”

“What about by party, what’s the party breakdown?” the CNN host asked.

“Yeah. Normally, you might expect, hey, there’d be a big divide by party, with Republicans really for it and Democrats really against it. But not really here. I mean, just take a look here, favor voter ID to vote, you got 95 percent of Republicans, pretty much all of them, but even 71 percent of Democrats favor photo ID to vote,” Enten continued.