Missouri law requiring photo ID to vote remains intact: 'Huge win for election security'

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey said a authorities instrumentality requiring a photograph ID to ballot being upheld successful tribunal is simply a "huge triumph for predetermination security."

"Missouri proved contiguous however to grip extremist activists that travel into a authorities with unafraid elections and effort to undermine them done the ineligible process," Bailey said successful an exclusive connection to Fox News Digital.

Bailey added that this was a immense triumph for the Show Me State.

"We went to court, we enactment connected the evidence, and extremist activists moving to undermine our elections FAILED. This is simply a HUGE triumph for predetermination security," Bailey said successful a station connected X. 

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Andrew Bailey, Missouri's lawyer general, called the tribunal triumph implicit photograph ID to ballot a "huge triumph for predetermination security." (Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Elon Musk besides shared his support and praise for Missouri's tribunal ruling.

"Congratulations AG Bailey! Now we request this nationwide," Musk wrote successful a station connected X.

The Missouri court’s determination to uphold the elector ID instrumentality came aft dense disapproval from groups arguing that specified requirements could disenfranchise voters.

However, Bailey’s bureau successfully presented grounds supporting the law’s necessity and effectiveness successful maintaining the integrity of the voting process. The court’s ruling confirmed that the elector ID law does not enforce a load connected voters.

Missouri besides provides escaped non-driver's licenses for voting for those who bash not already person a driver's licence oregon person a existent license. The wellness department's Bureau of Vital Records provides escaped commencement certificates to those seeking their archetypal non-driver's licence successful bid to ballot if the applicant does not person a existent driver's license.

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Cole County Circuit Judge Jon Beetem ruled Monday that a Missouri instrumentality requiring a photograph ID to ballot would stay intact. (Getty Images)

"There is not a terrible load connected the close to ballot arsenic the State has gone to large lengths to assistance voters get IDs," Bailey wrote successful a erstwhile tribunal brief.

In October 2022, Cole County Presiding Judge Jon Beetem had already rejected a suit brought by the Missouri League of Women Voters, NAACP and 2 voters challenging a instrumentality passed by the Republican-controlled authorities legislature making it mandatory that voters amusement photograph recognition to formed a regular ballot. Under the 2022 law, radical with a valid government-issued photograph ID are inactive capable to taxable provisional ballots, which volition beryllium counted if they instrumentality aboriginal that time with a photograph ID oregon if predetermination officials verify their signatures.

A Missouri tribunal decided to uphold the state's elector ID law, thing Andrew Bailey fought for. (Vanessa Abbitt/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

Republicans said the extremity of the 2022 instrumentality was to deter elector fraud, but the plaintiffs successful the lawsuit argued the authorities placed unconstitutional hurdles connected voting, suppressing turnout.

Before the 2022 midterm elections, it was acceptable for Missourians to contiguous a elector registration card, a pupil recognition card, a slope connection oregon inferior measure oregon a valid driver's licence to formed their ballots successful the state.

The National Conference of State Legislatures reports that 36 states petition oregon necessitate recognition to vote, of which astatine slightest 20 inquire for a photograph ID.

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Other Republican-led states are moving successful the aforesaid absorption arsenic Missouri, which could service arsenic the blueprint for nationalist policy.

"I'm arrogant that Missouri volition proceed to pb the federation successful defence of predetermination security," Bailey said. 

Critics reason that specified requirements are an overreaction that could disenfranchise eligible voters.

Fox News Digital's Danielle Wallace and the Associated Press contributed to this report.

Stepheny Price is writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business. Story tips and ideas tin beryllium sent to stepheny.price@fox.com.