Wednesday, Oct 28, 2026
Can you vote in Kansas without an ID?
Kansas requires voters to provide a government-issued photo ID at the polls.
Acceptable forms of ID include a driver’s license, U.S. passport, student ID or nondriver identification card. The state allows exceptions for voters aged 65 or older, who may use expired IDs, registered permanent advance voters with illness or disabilities and voters with documented religious objections to being photographed.
As of September 2026, 36 states have laws requesting or requiring some form of voter identification. Fourteen states and Washington D.C. use other methods to verify voters, such as a signature, which is checked against their information on file.
The conservative Heritage Foundation found that in seven swing states, documented cases of voter fraud over the past 13 to 38 years totalled less than 100 each, out of millions of ballots cast. That’s 0.00015% or less as a percentage, according to the left-leaning Brookings Institution.
This fact brief is responsive to conversations such as this one.
Sources
- Kansas Secretary of State Photo ID
- National Conference of State Legislatures Voter ID Laws
- Heritage Foundation Election Fraud Map
- Brookings Institution How widespread is election fraud in the United States? Not very
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