MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Nearly 80% of indefinitely confined voters in November’s elections produced a valid photo ID for at least one election dating back to 2016, according to an analysis released Friday.
Indefinitely confined voters don’t have to show photo identification to obtain a ballot under state law. Former President Donald Trump argued in lawsuits seeking to overturn Joe Biden’s victory in Wisconsin that the risk of voter fraud was high in the state in part because the indefinitely confined didn’t have to show valid photo identification. His arguments failed and Biden was ultimately certified as the winner in Wisconsin.
The Wisconsin Elections Commission report shows most of the indefinitely confined voters in November had followed the photo identification law in the past.
According to the analysis, 79.6% of the 216,490 voters who claimed they were indefinitely confined for the November 2020 election already had a photo ID on file from a previous election dating back to 2016 or had shown a photo ID at the polls during an election dating back to 2016.
