Poll Shows Support For Minn. Photo ID Amendment

A new Star Tribune Minnesota Poll shows that Minnesotans tend to favor a constitutional change that would require voters to show government-issued photo IDs before casting ballots.

 

 

 

 

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A new Star Tribune Minnesota Poll shows that Minnesotans tend to favor a constitutional change that would require voters to show government-issued photo IDs before casting ballots.

But support for the idea has fallen over the past year.

Slightly more than half of likely voters polled -- 52 percent- support the photo ID amendment while 44 percent oppose it and 4 percent are undecided.

Support for a photo ID requirement is way down from the 80 percent support in a May 2011 Minnesota Poll, when the issue was debated as a change in state law rather than as a constitutional amendment.

The poll's margin of error is plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.

It surveyed 800 likely voters between September 17th and 19th.

 

AP

   

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