A recent poll of Epoch Times readers found that 96% support voter ID for federal elections. While the Epoch Times skews conservative, as do readers, it is important to acknowledge that this poll is consistent with many others. For example, in August of 2025, Pew Research found that 83% of Americans also support requiring voter ID. That includes Democrats, Republicans, and everyone in between. So if voter ID is this popular, why can’t Congress pass it?
Both parties have decided the fight is worth more than the fix. Fortunately, Nevada has already begun addressing the problem with Question 7 in 2024, a Constitutional Amendment that provided Voter ID requirements. This initiative passed despite full opposition from the Nevada chapters of the NAACP and the ACLU.
Athar Hasebullah, Executive Director of the ACLU Nevada, called Question 7 “a solution in search of a problem”…“You’re actually more likely to be struck by lightning than you are to see a case of voter impersonation.” On its face, that argument makes sense. If fraud is rare, why add more requirements? But elections aren’t only about preventing fraud, but they also maintain public confidence. And right now, that confidence is broken.
Nevada voters didn’t waver. The initiative passed by 23 points.
Voter ID not only prevents actual fraud but, by restoring faith in the election, also drives up voter participation. According to a 2025 University of Missouri study, “strict voter ID requirements are shown to have a substantively large and statistically significant impact on the probability that citizens express confidence (and especially high confidence) in the integrity of elections.” By strengthening public trust, voter ID laws can encourage greater voter turnout rather than suppress it.
Distrust in our elections, in part, led to the SAVE Act. Yet Congress is stuck in the same loop that the Nevada Legislature was in recently. President Trump also signed executive orders on election integrity, but orders don’t become law. That leaves the SAVE Act, passed by the House in February, as the only federal path. It hit the Senate’s 60-vote filibuster wall. Republicans hold 53 seats and need 7 Democrats. They got zero.
Senator Jon Husted (R-OH) — the only member of the chamber who has actually run a statewide election — stripped the bill to its bones. Photo ID only. No citizenship requirement. No voter roll provisions. Just show your ID. Democrats blocked that version, too.
Two weeks earlier, Senate Minority Leader Schumer told reporters, “Democrats support voter ID.” But actions speak louder than words. And yet, Republicans aren’t clean either. Senate Majority Leader Thune told Fox News that if the SAVE Act fails, “it’s an issue we will be able to use in the fall elections.” Both sides are choosing the political weapon over the law.
Kim Wyman served 9 years as Republican Secretary of State of Washington, and was then appointed by President Biden as Senior Election Security Lead at CISA — one of the few officials both parties trusted on election administration. Washington ran all-mail voting and voter ID in the same system simultaneously. In her assessment, “it takes time and money” to build something easy to vote in and hard to cheat, but it can be done. Security and access aren’t a tradeoff.
83% of Americans have already answered and shown they agree with Secretary Wyman. The people who haven’t voted in a decade aren’t apathetic, they are exhausted by a system that no longer feels like it is listening or hearing them. Voter ID done right removes doubt about the result.
Congress isn’t stuck because this is hard. Americans have spoken. Washington needs to catch up and listen.
