Georgia voter id law history. Soon thereafter georgia and indiana pioneered a new strict form of voter id. It is not the official record of your registration which is retained by the voter registration office in the county of your residence. The military and overseas voting empowerment move act of 2009 improved access to voting by military and overseas voters.
Click here for the georgia secretary of states page on accepted id to ensure you have the most current information. Registrations can be. The following list of accepted id was current as of november 2019.
Voter identification see also. The eac helps states comply with hava to adopt minimum standards on voter education registration and ballots. The commission on federal election reform aka the carter baker commission in 2005 made a bipartisan recommendation for voter identification at the polls.
Voter id is a pain in the neck and laws change frequently. Any document with the name of the voter sufficed. Georgia law ocga 21 2 417 requires georgia residents to show photo identification when voting in person.
The identification document did not have to include a picture. Voter identification laws by state. If you have questions need more information or have difficulty getting a free voter identification card you can contact your county registrars office or the secretary of states elections division at.
Georgia requires voters to present photo identification while voting. We would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us. Georgias exact match law passed last year requires registration application information to match drivers license state id card or social security records.
530 pm telephone 404 656 2871 vtty. My voter page provides a web based search of data extracted from georgias statewide voter registration database. Voter id laws go back to 1950 when south carolina became the first state to start requesting identification from voters at the polls.
In the 2000s voter id as an issue began to take center stage. In 1970 hawaii joined in requiring id and texas a year later.