(Logan Gifford) – Senator Jon Ossoff required government-issued photo ID to attend his campaign rally in Atlanta last weekend.
But Ossoff opposes Voter ID, calling it “nakedly partisan” and “unworkable.”
So here’s the standard: to hear a campaign speech, you must prove who you are.
To help choose the President, that same requirement is unworkable?
This isn’t about hypocrisy. It’s about what we already know works.
We verify identity everywhere it matters because institutions require trust to function.
Last week, I had to wait for someone to verify my ID before I could buy NyQuil at a self-checkout. Nobody called that disenfranchisement.
Nevadans show ID to buy beer, board planes, and enter government buildings.
Voting doesn’t feel like a radical exception; it feels like the last place standards hadn’t caught up.
That contradiction matters, especially in Nevada.
In 2024, Nevadans passed Question 7, a constitutional amendment requiring voter ID, by more than 70 percent.
That wasn’t by mistake. It was a common-sense decision by people who live in the real world.
If passed again this year, high school students will be able to use their school district ID to vote.
Don’t have your physical ID, but remember the number? That works when you vote by mail.
Prefer your Social Security number? That is accepted too.
Nevada mails a ballot to every active registered voter—AB 321.
Voter ID is popular across party lines. A 2022 Gallup Poll found that 79 percent of Americans favor requiring photo identification to vote—including 95 percent of Republicans, 63 percent of Independents, and 55 percent of Democrats.
In Nevada’s 2023 Legislature, State Senators Carrie Buck and Jeff Stone sponsored SB 230, which required voter ID but also mandated the DMV provide free identification cards to any registered voter experiencing financial hardship.
The Democratic-controlled Legislature refused to give it a hearing.
Question 7 took the issue to the voters, who overwhelmingly approved it.
But voter ID alone doesn’t fix what’s broken. Verification only works if the list being checked is accurate.
After the 2024 election, Nevada’s Secretary of State canceled over 162,000 voter registrations and marked nearly 38,000 more inactive. Clark County alone removed more than 90,000 names that should no longer have been active.
The Pigpen Project, a Nevada-based voter roll watchdog, found registrations listing casinos, post offices, tattoo parlors, and vacant lots as voter residences.
When Nevada mails ballots to every registered voter, dirty voter rolls don’t just cost you and me taxpayer money. They create ballots without certainty.
Ballots were sent to the wrong addresses. Ballots sent to people who are no longer here.
When people don’t believe the system works, they disengage. Or they participate believing it’s rigged.
Nevada ranks second-worst in the nation for election law strength on the Heritage Foundation’s Election Integrity Scorecard. The fix is arduous, but necessary.
Question 7 was step one. Nevadans said we’re willing to prove who we are to vote.
But ID only matters if the registration it’s tied to is accurate. Modern voter-roll maintenance must be the standard going forward.
Our America believes, and frankly, I believe a majority of Nevadans would agree, voter identification is critical to the integrity and credibility of elections—not because we distrust voters, but because trust itself is the foundation of democratic participation.
Our position is straightforward: require government-issued ID to vote in person, provide free access to those IDs for anyone who needs one, and allow provisional voting as a safety net. When people know the system works, they participate.
Nevada is a battleground state. Every vote matters.
If Jon Ossoff can require ID for a rally while calling voter ID “disenfranchisement,” the problem isn’t the ID. It’s the double standard.
Nevada rejected that logic in 2024. Now we need to finish the job.
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