Missouri voters approved an amendment [text] on Tuesday to require voters to present photo identification at the polls. The amendment proposes the same bill that Governor Jay Nixon vetoed in July. The Missouri Legislature overrode [JURIST report] his veto in September. Opponents of the bill say that it will make voting more difficult [SLPD report] and could disenfranchise voters, while its proponents believe the law would make election results more reliable.

Voter ID laws have remained a particularly contentious issue. In September the US Supreme Court denied a motion to reinstate [JURIST report] North Carolina’s recently overturned law that limited early voting to 10 days and required voters to present approved ID cards. The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit denied [JURIST report] an emergency petition in August for a rehearing regarding the Wisconsin voter ID law. Also in August an Oklahoma County judge upheld a controversial voter ID law allowing the law to be in place while early voting commenced for a primary run-off.