claim: twenty four states have voter id or comparable restrictions; before barack obama was elected, it was two.
author: james vincent
evidence_1: sep 15, 2011 ... republican lawmakers in several states are rewriting their election laws in ...  back voting rights for ex-felons and passed stricter voter id laws. taken together,  the measures could have a significant and negative effect on president obama's  ... of 20 to 24 gop electoral votes in the 2012 presidential election.
evidence_2: dec 19, 2013 ... it wasn't even an election year this year, but the battle over voting ... twenty four  states have voter id or comparable restrictions; before .... 24 states that have  voting ids or some form of restrictions in terms of who can vote and who can't  vote, and i think before president obama was elected, i think it was two.
evidence_3: jan 19, 2017 ... in 2000, barack obama had just lost a congressional race and was feeling blue.  ... twenty-four years after clinton's speech, smack dab in the middle of ... so why  did the democrats lose the 2016 presidential election? ... led some to speculate  that he both attracted a new kind of democratic voter and started ...
evidence_4: oct 29, 2018 ... african-americans make up thirty-two per cent of the state's population ... during  the 2016 election are fundamentally concerns about the future of the american  electorate. ... and iowa, which have passed strict voter-i.d. or roll-purge laws. ... in  north dakota, which didn't become a state until twenty-four years ...
evidence_5: nov 4, 2018 ... (you'll find a full list, with early voting dates, at the end of this article.) ... state  legislatures limited early voting for 2012; efforts to limit early voting are still ... and  his announcement two days before election day that nothing new had ... in  almost 20 percent fewer polling places for early voting compared to 2014.