Spread The Vote is a nonpartisan 501c3 nonprofit that promotes voting rights and fights voter supression by obtaining government-issued photo IDs for eligible voters and helping them meet polling requirements to vote. We are building a scalable and sustainable way to help voters get the IDs they need for job, housing, voting, and more 365 days a year PLUS election day.
Currently, about 11% of voting age Americans (that’s over 21 million people) lack a government-issued ID – 13% of African-Americans, 10% of Hispanics, and 5% of whites. Under federal election law, any state requiring a state-issued document in order to vote must provide that document for free (if it doesn’t, the law constitutes a poll tax, which was outlawed by the 24th Amendment).