"A YES vote on Issue 3 protects Ohio’s elections by placing photo ID requirements for voters into Ohio’s Constitution, safeguarding Ohio’s voters from imposters seeking to steal their vote. Requiring a photo ID helps verify a voter’s identity and ensures that only legal votes are counted.

This commonsense requirement will protect Ohio’s elections and is the standard to obtain a job, rent an apartment, board a plane, or drive a car. 

Photo ID is a proven method to protect Ohio’s elections and improve voter confidence. If you can show an ID to drive a car, you can show an ID to decide the future of our state and our country." - Adam Bird, State Representative, Heidi Workman, State Representative, Theresa Gavarone, State Senator, Jane Timken, State Senator

"Issue 3 is simple: One person, one vote, one ID. Ohio already requires photo ID to vote in person. Issue 3 locks that commonsense safeguard into our Constitution, where politicians can’t simply undo it and only Ohio voters can change it. Ohio's elections belong to Ohioans, and Issue 3 locks that in. Vote yes on Issue 3.

• You show ID to cash a check, rent a hotel room, or buy a beer. Proving who you are before you help choose a Governor or a U.S. Senator isn’t extreme. It’s obvious.
• Ohio has required photo ID to vote for years. The 2024 general election brought the second-highest voter turnout in state history, with photo ID in full effect.
• More than eight-in-ten Americans back voter ID. Republicans, Independents, and a majority of Democrats support it. Requiring a valid ID to vote isn’t the extreme position. Blocking it is.
• Issue 3 makes sure the person casting the ballot is the person on the rolls. You prove you are who you say you are, every time you vote." - Ohio Republican Party

"This proposed amendment to the Ohio Constitution would strengthen election integrity by constitutionally requiring voter identification, helping ensure that Ohio’s elections remain secure, transparent, and worthy of public confidence. 

Ohio law already requires an elector appearing at a polling place to provide photo identification. However, S.J.R. 10 seeks to enshrine this existing safeguard in the state constitution by placing voter identification requirements before Ohioans as a proposed amendment. If approved by voters, the amendment would protect photo identification requirements for in-person voting and minimum identification standards for other methods of voting from future statutory changes, ensuring that these election integrity protections remain durable, consistent, and accountable to the people of Ohio." - American Legislative Exchange Council

“Having voter ID in the constitution is about ensuring long-term security in our elections. Photo ID for voting helps secure the bedrock democratic principle of one person, one vote. Virginia indeed passed photo ID laws, however, after several years of operation, surviving judicial challenges, Virginia repealed its photo ID requirement in 2020 after a single seat in the General Assembly flipped.” - Jane Timken, State Senator 

"Issue 3 seeks to scare Ohioans into not trusting our election system to boost weak political candidates. Photo Identification is already the law and this amendment locks in voter burden with no voter protections. Groups from across the political spectrum from gun rights groups, labor unions, and Ohioans across the state opposed Issue 3 for failing to provide any concrete benefit.

Vote No because Issue 3 tries to address an issue that does not exist. Voter impersonation is essentially nonexistent! Ohio’s elections are safe and secure. 

Vote No because Issue 3 is nothing more than a partisan power grab by out-of-state elites who want to rig Ohio’s elections." - Bill DeMora, State Senator, Desiree Tims, State Representative, and Terrence Upchurch, State Representative 

"This year’s election will include a statewide ballot initiative, Issue 3, which would import our existing strict photo ID laws in the Ohio Constitution.

The ACLU of Ohio’s opposition to Issue 3 is twofold. First, Ohio already has one of the strictest voter ID laws in the country following the passage of HB 458 in 2023. Lawmakers used this legislation to shrink down the list of acceptable forms of identification to exclude non-photo ID options, such as a government-issued check or utility bill. This makes Issue 3 and the manufactured “need” to add mandatory photo ID laws to our state constitution redundant and unnecessary. What’s worse, putting these requirements in the state constitution leaves the possibility that some forms of ID could become obsolete, and thus unusable.

Second, our opposition stems from the fact that lawmakers’ support of Issue 3 is more about personal political agendas and party extremism than supporting Ohio’s elections. Time after time, we have witnessed the Ohio General Assembly push through legislation that hinders our election process, while paying little to no attention to improving voter access.

The ACLU of Ohio opposes Issue 3 and any effort to silence voters through enacting strict, unneeded barriers. We urge a NO vote this election." - ACLU of Ohio

"If passed in November, the amendment would enshrine Ohio’s existing voter photo ID requirement into the Ohio Constitution. Under current law Ohioans must present a government-issued photo ID to vote in person. The proposed amendment would make that requirement permanent and constitutional, limiting the ability of future General Assemblies to modify or repeal it.

Voter ID is already state law. There is no evidence of widespread voter fraud in Ohio. Yet lawmakers fast-tracked a constitutional amendment to permanently lock in voter ID requirements. The Constitution should protect voting rights broadly, not lock in specific requirements that could prevent voter access down the road. This isn’t about election security. It’s about who gets to participate in our democracy." - Ohio Citizen Action 

“Our current form of photo identification and the laws that govern it are working as they were intended, yet many of my colleagues across the aisle have decided today that the urgent issue of the moment is to turn this existing law that is already working into a change in our constitution.” - C. Allison Russo, State Representative  

OHIO ISSUE 3, REQUIRE VOTER IDENTIFICATION AMENDMENT (2026)

This question is on the ballot in Ohio as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment on November 3, 2026. As of October 9, 2026, no committee to support the amendment has been identified. Thus, there is no record of funds raised to support the amendment.

OHIO ISSUE 3, REQUIRE VOTER IDENTIFICATION AMENDMENT (2026)

This question is on the ballot in Ohio as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment on November 3, 2026. As of October 9, 2026, no committee to oppose the amendment has been identified. Thus, there is no record of funds raised to oppose the amendment.