Democratic Party candidate Kamala Harris won in states that required voter ID in the 2024 presidential election, contrary to online posts suggesting her wins were limited to states without any voter ID requirements.
The list of states won by U.S. Vice President Harris includes those requiring photo ID, non-photo ID and those requiring other voting eligibility documents.
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Hours after Donald Trump beat Harris by securing enough electoral votes on Nov. 6, social media posts said, “Harris only won the states that do not require voter ID.”
The posts shared screenshots from a live electoral map on Google and a map on Ballotpedia that displays voter identification requirements by state.
Based on a Reuters’ electoral map of the 2024 election results, however, Harris won at least six states that required voters to present IDs.
Harris won New Hampshire and Rhode Island. Both states require voters to present valid photo identification before voting.
Harris won Colorado, Virginia, Connecticut and Delaware, also states that require voters to present a valid form of identification that does not necessarily need a photo.
Harris won in other states that do not require voters to present identification, including California and New York.
Trump won Pennsylvania and Nevada, which do not require voters to present identification in most cases.
Joseph Campbell, political author and a professor emeritus at American University in Washington, DC, said the online narrative reflects characteristics of well-known online stories widely believed and often retold that on close inspection turn out to be “dubious, apocryphal, or wildly exaggerated tales.”
VERDICT
Misleading. At least six states won by Harris in the 2024 presidential election required some form of voter ID.
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