How many adult Americans actually lack government photo IDs?

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Kamala Harris implies that it is 40%. Her actual comment is that 40% of all Americans lack either a birth certificate or a passport, as required by the SAVE act, currently before Congress, which Chuck Schumer calls “Jim Crow 2.0.”

I asked grok, ChatGPT and Perplexity what the actual number is. Perplexity says it is 1% to 3%, with the most high value studies showing a little over 1%. Grok says a little over 1%. ChatGPT says around 1%, most conservative estimate near 3% (2020 American National Election Studies, which only covered certain specific kinds of IDs, and not other IDs which would be acceptable for voting, including military IDs, local government IDs, tribal IDs, etc.), and it asked whether the individual was in current possession of the ID.

Former VP Kamala Harris claims 40% of Americans lack ID in scathing attack on SAVE Act

Incidentally, 83% of Americans support photo ID requirements to vote, including 71% of Democrats.

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