Proof of Citizenship to Vote by State (2026)
Our dated records list 11 states with an active citizenship law, 2 with a law that is blocked or not yet effective, 36 jurisdictions (including D.C.) with no general document requirement recorded, and 2 needing implementation confirmation. Pick your state for the documents, deadlines, and birth certificate ordering details. Conditional citizenship checks may also apply outside the active-law group.
Oldest full state review: October 30, 2026. A newer site update does not mean every state record has been re-verified.
Implementation needs confirmation (2)
These guides give dated, sourced information and official registration or voting instructions without asserting a settled statewide enforcement status. Confirm any document request with the election office.
Guides listing an active citizenship law (11)
These guides record operative general or conditional citizenship-evidence processes. They cover document requirements, database checks, and affidavit alternatives. This group does not mean every voter must bring citizenship documents. Read each state’s scope and last-checked date.
- Arizona proof-of-citizenship rules
- Georgia proof-of-citizenship rules
- Indiana proof-of-citizenship rules
- Iowa proof-of-citizenship rules
- Mississippi proof-of-citizenship rules
- New Hampshire proof-of-citizenship rules
- Ohio proof-of-citizenship rules
- South Dakota proof-of-citizenship rules
- Tennessee proof-of-citizenship rules
- Utah proof-of-citizenship rules
- Wyoming proof-of-citizenship rules
Guides with blocked or not yet effective citizenship laws (2)
These records cover a court-blocked requirement or a law whose citizenship-document provisions are not yet effective. Each guide gives the dated scope. Other eligibility or identification checks are separate questions.
States with no general citizenship-document requirement recorded (36)
These guides do not record a general documentary requirement. Identity checks, citizenship eligibility rules, and voter-roll reviews are separate questions. North Dakota does not require voter registration. Confirm current instructions with your election office.
- Alaska proof-of-citizenship rules
- Arkansas proof-of-citizenship rules
- California proof-of-citizenship rules
- Colorado proof-of-citizenship rules
- Connecticut proof-of-citizenship rules
- Delaware proof-of-citizenship rules
- District of Columbia proof-of-citizenship rules
- Hawaii proof-of-citizenship rules
- Idaho proof-of-citizenship rules
- Illinois proof-of-citizenship rules
- Kentucky proof-of-citizenship rules
- Maine proof-of-citizenship rules
- Maryland proof-of-citizenship rules
- Massachusetts proof-of-citizenship rules
- Michigan proof-of-citizenship rules
- Minnesota proof-of-citizenship rules
- Missouri proof-of-citizenship rules
- Montana proof-of-citizenship rules
- Nebraska proof-of-citizenship rules
- Nevada proof-of-citizenship rules
- New Jersey proof-of-citizenship rules
- New Mexico proof-of-citizenship rules
- New York proof-of-citizenship rules
- North Carolina proof-of-citizenship rules
- North Dakota proof-of-citizenship rules
- Oklahoma proof-of-citizenship rules
- Oregon proof-of-citizenship rules
- Pennsylvania proof-of-citizenship rules
- Rhode Island proof-of-citizenship rules
- South Carolina proof-of-citizenship rules
- Texas proof-of-citizenship rules
- Vermont proof-of-citizenship rules
- Virginia proof-of-citizenship rules
- Washington proof-of-citizenship rules
- West Virginia proof-of-citizenship rules
- Wisconsin proof-of-citizenship rules
Status is derived from each dated state record; see each guide's review dates and sources. Federal SAVE Act status.
The active group records a citizenship-document law with a general document requirement or a conditional evidence-and-cure process described in the guide’s sources. Routine identity, eligibility, automatic-registration or voter-roll checks alone do not place a guide in this group. “No general rule recorded” describes this inventory; it does not establish the absence of every citizenship check.