Polls Show Majority Of Americans Support Voter ID

As the SAVE America Act stalls in the Senate, new polls show that an overwhelming majority of voters across both parties are largely in favor of supporting required voter ID laws.

Seemingly every day there are more reports about noncitizens participating in U.S. elections and undermining the integrity of America’s voting system. Senate Majority Leader John Thune also continues to clash with President Donald Trump, refusing to overturn the now four-month-long blockade of the SAVE Act in the upper chamber.

A recently published poll by Tea Party Patriots Action indicated over 80 percent of likely voters say that only U.S. citizens should vote in federal elections, while another poll conducted by Fox News found that over 80 percent of voters think that a photo ID should be required to register to vote.

The data released from TPPA surveyed 1,000 general election voters and was conducted by McLaughlin & Associates on July 22, 2026. John McLaughlin, strategic consultant and pollster, surveyed people nationwide who are “likely to vote,” and divided respondents evenly between “people who support Trump and people who don’t,” according to TPPA Chairman Jenny Beth Martin.

The TPPA poll reports 82 percent of participants agree “only United States citizens should be allowed to vote in elections for U.S. president, U.S. Senate, and U.S. House.”

Additional data from the survey seems to suggest that support for several elements of the SAVE America Act cross party lines.

Seventy-eight percent of surveyed participants agreed that “proof of United States citizenship should be required to register to vote in American elections” including 94 percent of Republicans, 68 percent of Democrats, and 73 percent of Independents.

Seventy-eight percent of participants also agreed “voters should be required to show a photo ID when casting a ballot,” including 94 percent of Republicans, 63 percent of Democrats, and 75 percent of Independent voters.

In total, 56 percent of the surveyed participants across parties agreed that “the United States Senate should continue to work to pass [the act] before this year’s elections.”

“The Senate needs to do its job and pass the SAVE America Act. The time for excuses is over. President Trump is demanding it, grassroots conservatives are demanding it, and the American people – across all party lines – are demanding it,” said Martin.

Martin told the Federalist that TPPA has fought for voter ID through supporting legislative measures since 2024. When the SAVE Act originally fizzled out in the Senate in 2025, TPPA organized a three-week, 20-state bus tour around country to collect thousands of signatures. Now as the new rendition of the bill, the SAVE America Act, is stalled, Martin and other activists with TPPA are “launching an effort to get more people to call the Senate nonstop” to work on the bill before the Senate recesses.

Martin says the problem blocking the passage of the bill is that Democrat members of Congress will not vote for it. “We have 50 votes right now, plus the Vice President voting to break a tie if he has to,” Martin said. “Democrats just won’t budge, even if they support voter ID. They aren’t even trying to work on this and I think that’s a huge issue.”

The Fox News Poll seems to corroborate TPPA’s poll showing that “support for requiring photo ID to vote has remained consistently high, between 77 percent to 85 percent in Fox News polling since 2011.”

Fox’s poll data includes support from 72 percent of surveyed Democrats.

“Even socialists think voter ID is common sense, yet Democrat politicians keep blocking the SAVE America Act and attacking election safeguards because they know they can’t win fair and square,” said Ally Triolo, The Republican National Committee’s election integrity communications director. “American elections are for American citizens only — and the RNC is fighting to keep it that way.”

Libby Bandelin is a reporting and editing intern at The Federalist with the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. A recent graduate from Dordt University, she earned her B.A. in communications with an emphasis in journalism and a minor in criminal justice. In college, she served as chief editor for her student newspaper, and her writing won third place in the 2026 Cordell Prize. She’s also attended journalism intensives with WORLD newsgroup and Alliance Defending Freedom.