Election Evidence

Show me why Ohio needs to demand my photo ID.

Investigate actual cases and put the numbers in front of voters. Then show why a photo ID mandate is necessary, what it prevents, and why a more private way to verify voters would fall short. That was the case lawmakers owed us when they first imposed the requirement and when they put it on the ballot.

THE OHIO RECORD / 2020, 2022 AND 2024 GENERAL ELECTIONS

Would Issue 3 have changed an Ohio election?

I found no documented Ohio contest in these cycles that Issue 3 would have changed. Fraud was proven in some cases. The records give us specific cases, referrals and court outcomes. They do not establish a complete statewide fraud count for each year.

Ohio general elections and documented examples. The turnout totals count all ballots statewide.
Election	Ohio ballots	What the public record shows
2020	5,974,121	One referral batch flagged 27 potentially illegal ballots from this election, about 0.00045% of turnout. Two later batches flagged four and 75 people, respectively, for possible cross-state double voting in 2020. These are referrals for investigation. 20 21
2022	4,201,368	In a proven case, James Saunders voted in both Ohio and Florida in 2022. The same prosecution established that he also voted in both states in 2020. 21 23
2024	5,851,387	Federal prosecutors announced three Ohio complaints in October 2026. One specifically alleges unlawful voting on November 5, 2024. The complaints cover multiple elections and state allegations. 21 22

Across multiple cycles. In 2025, Ohio’s secretary of state referred 1,084 people for suspected unlawful noncitizen registration, including 167 who appeared to have cast a federal ballot across 2018, 2020, 2022 and 2024. The release did not break the 167 down by election and said the materials had been referred before. Separate reporting on Ohio’s crime dashboard found nine recorded felony convictions for illegal voting in its 2017–2026 reporting window, during which Ohio counted more than 35 million ballots. Convictions measure court outcomes, and the self-reported dashboard may be incomplete. Neither figure is a statewide fraud rate. 22 26

Ask what the ID check could have stopped.

A photo ID check can help a poll worker catch someone pretending to be another voter in person. An older Ohio case shows the difference. In 1996 a man tried to vote as his son at a Stark County elections office. Staff questioned him, and the ballot was sealed and never counted. Saunders voted under his own identity. A poll worker looking at his ID could not see that he had also voted in Florida. An in-person check also leaves mail-ballot safeguards and citizenship verification to their own rules. 23 24 27

Then ask which race it would have changed.

Ohio’s 2020 presidential margin was 475,669 votes, its 2022 U.S. Senate margin 252,625, and its 2024 presidential margin 646,417. Local elections can be much closer. Ohio reported three tied local issues and three contests within one vote in 2024. A close margin makes the location of a proven illegal ballot matter. It supplies no evidence that one was cast there or that Issue 3 would have stopped it. 25

What Issue 3 added. Ohio moved from allowing some non-photo identification to requiring photo ID in 2023. The legislature’s own analysis said Issue 3 required no change to the statutory ID rules in place in 2026. It limits what future lawmakers can change. The case for the original requirement still has to stand on its own evidence. 27

OHIO / ACCESS TO THE BALLOT

A right to vote has to reach the count.

Ohio’s constitution says qualified electors are “entitled to vote at all elections.” If someone meets those qualifications and their ballot goes uncounted solely because they could not produce an accepted photo ID, that person lost their vote. I want Ohio to justify a rule that can produce that result. 29 30

Ohio offers a provisional ballot. The ID deadline still applies.

Poll workers must offer a provisional ballot to a voter who cannot show photo ID. In most such cases, the voter must then appear at the county board of elections with acceptable photo ID within four days after Election Day. A voter with a qualifying religious objection can use an affidavit. When the required ID or qualifying affidavit is missing, the board rejects the ballot. 30

Ohio rejected 7,053 provisional ballots for lack of ID.

That figure comes from analyses of Ohio’s November 2024 state data. It records the reason for rejection. The number alone cannot tell us how many voters were otherwise eligible, how they would have voted, or whether the rejections affected a result. Ohio should report how many voters start the ID cure process, how many complete it, and how many otherwise eligible voters lose their vote at that step. 28

What courts have held. Federal courts weigh the burden on voting against the state’s reasons for imposing it. Severe burdens require a compelling justification and a narrowly tailored rule. In Crawford, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a broad challenge to Indiana’s photo ID law. In 2024, a federal district court rejected a challenge to Ohio’s HB 458 photo ID rule on the record before it. That court considered Ohio’s free ID option and the ability to vote by mail using an identifying number. Those rulings explain the legal standard. Ohio still owes voters an answer about whether its photo ID mandate is fair and necessary. 31

A fair election means getting eligible ballots into the count. An accurate count tells us how the ballots that made it into the tally were counted. Ask Ohio to measure who was left out, show why the mandate is necessary, and test a way to verify voters with less personal information. Ask Ohio lawmakers to answer in writing.

Other measures of scale

MICHIGAN / 2024

0.00028%

Apparent cases in a state review

Michigan identified 16 apparent cases, including one already reported, among more than 5.7 million ballots. These were findings for review. 05

IOWA / 2024

Noncitizen ballots counted

Iowa’s secretary of state reported 35 counted ballots, out of more than 1.6 million ballots statewide, and five additional ballots that were rejected. 06

FEDERAL DATABASE / 2026

0.03%

Records flagged for review

Federal officials reported that share of records screened through the SAVE system as possible noncitizens requiring further review. The denominator is records screened. 07

How to read these figures. These examples cover different populations and measure different things, from records flagged to ballots counted. These figures cannot establish a nationwide rate or a historical maximum. A case involving a noncitizen also says nothing by itself about whether the person had lawful immigration status.

GEORGIA / JANUARY 2, 2021

11,780

Votes Donald Trump asked Georgia’s secretary of state to “find.” 09

Where was this urgency when a president pressured the count?

Georgia had already confirmed its presidential result through a statewide hand count and certified it again after a recount. Trump asked for one vote more than the margin he lost by. The call is documented. The Georgia prosecution later ended without a verdict. 09

Checking my photo ID would have done nothing to stop that phone call. If election integrity is your standard, demand it from the people with enough power to pressure the result.

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Evidence reviewed November 4, 2026. Ohio Issue 3 results were unofficial at the time of review.