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A Missouri judge is expected to decide this week if voters in the state will be required to present photo identification in order to cast their ballots in upcoming 2024 elections. In October 2022, Cole County Presiding Judge Jon Beetem had already rejected a lawsuit brought by the Missouri League of Women Voters, NAACP and
Almost one out of every 10 voters who cast ballots in Missouri's two largest jurisdictions during recent elections lacked the identification now required at polls in the state, an expert testified Monday at a trial over the voter ID requirement.
Tom Bastian, a spokesperson for the ACLU of Missouri, said the voter ID law’s requirements “place a heavy burden on registered voters, they confuse Missourians, and they decrease voter turnout.”
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Missouri judge is weighing at trial this week whether a law requiring voters to show a government-issued photo ID at the ballot box violates the
A Missouri judge is expected to determine this week whether the state law requiring voters to present photo ID to cast their ballots is constitutional and can continue.