Voter ID Ballot Proposals in Nebraska, Arizona Top 2022 Election Integrity Measures

Nebraskans will be asked to make their state the 22nd to require valid photo identification to vote when they go to the polls on Nov. 8, one of four election integrity measures on ballots nationwide this fall.

Nebraska’s Initiative 432 and Arizona’s Proposition 309 seek to incorporate more stringent ID requirements into state election laws. Proposed measures in Ohio and Louisiana would ban municipalities from allowing noncitizens to vote in local elections.

The four measures are among 137 proposed state constitutional amendments that qualified for 2022 ballots across 37 states. Voters in four states have already cast ballots on five proposed measures with Louisianans to see three in December, including the noncitizen vote question.

Ballots for the primary elections are arranged by party affiliation at the Lancaster County Election Committee offices in Lincoln, Neb., in April 2020. (Nati Harnik/AP photo) Nebraska

The Photo Voter Identification Initiative would amend the state constitution to require valid photo identification to vote, and authorize the state Senate to stipulate what those ID requirements would be.

Nebraska is one of 15 states without voter ID requirements in its constitution. If Initiative 432 is adopted, Nebraska would join 21 states that require a photo ID and 36 that require an ID to vote in-person.

The Nebraska proposal is the sixth measure presented to voters nationwide seeking to enact voter ID requirements since 2011, documents Ballotpedia. Voters in four states—Arkansas, North Carolina, Missouri, Mississippi—approved such measures between 2011-14. Minnesotans rejected one in 2012.

After Nebraska lawmakers failed to pass voter ID bills at least seven times in the last decade, Citizens for Voter ID got the proposed amendment on the ballot by submitting more than 172,000 signatures, nearly 50,000 more than required, before the June 7 deadline.

Citizens for Voter ID is led by state Sen. Julie Slama, R-Peru, and

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