How new U.S. laws could trip up voters this November. Eleven U.S. states have imposed stricter voter identification requirements since 2020. Twenty-one states require a voter ID with a photo such as a driver’s license, state-issued ID card, or passport. 

How new U.S. laws could trip up voters this November. Eleven U.S. states have imposed stricter voter identification requirements since 2020. Twenty-one states require a voter ID with a photo such as a driver’s license, state-issued ID card, or passport. 

For USA-ELECTION/VOTING-NORTHCAROLINA [moving at 0600 EDT (1000 GMT) Friday, July 15, 2016]A pile of government pamphlets explaining North Carolina's controversial "Voter ID" law sits on table at a polling station as the law goes into effect for the state's presidential primary in Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S. on March 15, 2016. REUTERS/Chris Keane/File Photo 

For USA-ELECTION/VOTING-NORTHCAROLINA [moving at 0600 EDT (1000 GMT) Friday, July 15, 2016]An election worker checks a voter's drivers license as North Carolina's controversial "Voter ID" law goes into effect for the state's presidential primary election at a polling place in Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S. on March 15, 2016. REUTERS/Chris Keane/File Photo 

Spain's acting prime minister and People's Party (PP) leader Mariano Rajoy shows his identity card before casting his vote in Spain's general election in Madrid, Spain, June 26, 2016. REUTERS/Juan Medina 

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach talks about the Kansas voter ID law that he pushed to combat what he believes to be rampant voter fraud in the United States in his Topeka, Kansas, U.S., office May 12, 2016. REUTERS/Dave Kaup TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Hotel manager Tad Stricker, one of the plaintiffs in an ACLU suit against the voter ID law enacted by Kansas, talks about his problems registering to vote in Wichita, Kansas, U.S., May 11, 2016. REUTERS/Dave Kaup 

Hotel manager Tad Stricker, one of the plaintiffs in an ACLU suit against the voter ID law enacted by Kansas, talks about his problems registering to vote in Wichita, Kansas, U.S., May 11, 2016. REUTERS/Dave Kaup 

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach looks on as he talks about the Kansas voter ID law that he pushed to combat what he believes to be rampant voter fraud in the United States in his Topeka, Kansas, U.S., office May 12, 2016. REUTERS/Dave Kaup 

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach poses as he talks about the Kansas voter ID law that he pushed to combat what he believes to be rampant voter fraud in the United States in his Topeka, Kansas, U.S., office May 12, 2016. REUTERS/Dave Kaup 

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach talks about the Kansas voter ID law that he pushed to combat what he believes to be rampant voter fraud in the United States in his Topeka, Kansas, U.S., office May 12, 2016. REUTERS/Dave Kaup 

A daughter of a Tibetan exile stands next to her father as others hold their identity cards to cast their vote during the elections for the Tibetan government-in-exile at a polling booth in Dharamsala, India, March 20, 2016. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi 

Am election worker checks a voter's drivers license as North Carolina's controversial "Voter ID" law goes into effect for the state's presidential primary election at a polling place in Charlotte, North Carolina March 15, 2016. REUTERS/Chris Keane 

A pile of government pamphlets explaining North Carolina's controversial "Voter ID" law sits on table at a polling station as the law goes into effect for the state's presidential primary in Charlotte, North Carolina March 15, 2016. REUTERS/Chris Keane 

An electoral commission worker takes a fingerprint of a voter in a polling station during elections in Kano March 28, 2015. Nigerians voted on Saturday in what looks set to be the first genuine electoral contest since the end of military rule in 1999, one in which an opposition aspirant has a fighting chance of unseating the incumbent, President Goodluck Jonathan. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

A worker carries a sign that will be displayed at a polling place that will inform voters of the new voter ID law that goes into effect in 2016 at the Mecklenburg County Board of Elections warehouse in Charlotte, North Carolina November 3, 2014. REUTERS/Chris Keane (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS) 

Flyers informing voters of the new voter ID law that will go into effect for the 2016 election are seen at the Mecklenburg County Board of Elections warehouse in Charlotte, North Carolina November 3, 2014. REUTERS/Chris Keane (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS) 

An election staff member pastes a hologram on a voter identification card at an election branch of a district administrative office in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad April 4, 2014. India, the world's largest democracy, will hold its general election in nine stages staggered between April 7 and May 12. REUTERS/Amit Dave (INDIA - Tags: ELECTIONS POLITICS) 

Gulgez Jabrailova (L), 78, waits as an election official checks her ID at her home during the presidential elections in the village of Nardaran, some 35 km (22 miles) north-east of Baku, October 9, 2013. Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev looks certain to extend his rule in the oil-producing former Soviet republic for a third straight term in an election on Wednesday that opponents say has already been skewed in his favour. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili (AZERBAIJAN - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS) 

A Nepalese woman (R) poses for a photograph to obtain her voter's identity card before the deadline to register for the upcoming Constituent Assembly Election, to be held in November 19, at the Kathmandu District Election Office in Kathmandu July 15, 2013. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar (NEPAL - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS) 

A man receives his voter identification card in Senou June 29, 2013. Mali is scheduled to hold presidential elections on July 28. REUTERS/Adama Diarra (MALI - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS) 

A voter holds his Computerised National Identity Card (CNIC) as he waits to cast his vote at a polling station in Quetta May 11, 2013. Pakistanis voted in a landmark test of democracy on Saturday and were quickly reminded of the militant violence that plagues the country, with election-related bombings in several cities. REUTERS/Naseer Ahmed (PAKISTAN - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS) 

Betty Lockett, 103 and her second cousin Peter Smith, 64, who helped her get a voter ID are shown in Munster, Indiana October 18, 2012. Lockett moved from Illinois to Indiana this and wanted to vote but state officials would not accept her Illinois ID, asking for a passport or birth certificate. Democratic claims that a large number of Americans could be prevented from voting because of photo identification laws are probably overstated based on evidence from Georgia and Indiana, the two states where the laws have been in place for multiple elections, Reuters found. Photo taken October 18, 2012. REUTERS/Nick Carey (UNITED STATES) 

Antwoine McCoy displays his customer ticket, showing a wait time of 36 minutes, as he stands outside Pennsylvania Department of Transportation office in Philadelphia waiting to get a voter ID card, September 27, 2012. McCoy had waited nearly two hours when this photograph was taken. Younger Americans, people without college educations, the poor and Hispanics are among the groups most likely to be unable to vote under new state laws requiring photo ID cards an analysis of poll data shows. REUTERS/Tom Mihalek (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS USA PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION) 

A woman peers in through a glass door at a Pennsylvania Department of Transportation office in Philadelphia, to see how long the lines are, to get a voter ID card, September 27, 2012. Younger Americans, people without college educations, the poor and Hispanics are among the groups most likely to be unable to vote under new state laws requiring photo ID cards an analysis of poll data shows. REUTERS/Tom Mihalek (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS USA PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION) 

People fill the waiting area of a Pennsylvania Department of Transportation office in Philadelphia as they wait to get a voter ID card, September 27, 2012.
Younger Americans, people without college educations, the poor and Hispanics are among the groups most likely to be unable to vote under new state laws requiring photo ID cards an analysis of poll data shows. REUTERS/Tom Mihalek (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS USA PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION) 

Larry Johnson, waited more than three hours with his 87 year-old wheelchair-bound mother to get a voter ID card, is pictured inside a Pennsylvania Department of Transportation office in Philadelphia September 27, 2012. Younger Americans, people without college educations, the poor and Hispanics are among the groups most likely to be unable to vote under new state laws requiring photo ID cards an analysis of poll data shows. REUTERS/Tom Mihalek (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS USA PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION) 

Larry Johnson (C) stands next his mother Ethel, 87, sitting in her wheelchair as they wait to get a voter ID card inside a Pennsylvania Department of Transportation office in Philadelphia September 27, 2012.
Younger Americans, people without college educations, the poor and Hispanics are among the groups most likely to be unable to vote under new state laws requiring photo ID cards an analysis of poll data shows. REUTERS/Tom Mihalek (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS USA PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION) 

A woman holds her identification in front of her face as she rests after voting at a polling station during Iran's parliamentary election in southern Tehran March 2, 2012. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl (IRAN - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS RELIGION) 

A woman holds her baby and her voter identity card as she waits for her turn to cast her ballot at a polling station during the sixth phase of state assembly elections in Noida, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, February 28, 2012. Uttar Pradesh, with 200 million people, is an unruly state that stretches southeast from New Delhi, divided along its length by the Ganges River. To avoid violence, voting is staggered over seven days. Results from a total of five state elections are to be announced on March 6. REUTERS/Parivartan Sharma (INDIA - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS) 

A veiled Muslim woman displays her voter identity card as she waits for her turn to cast her ballot at a polling station during the sixth phase of state assembly elections in Noida, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, February 28, 2012. Uttar Pradesh, with 200 million people, is an unruly state that stretches southeast from New Delhi, divided along its length by the Ganges River. To avoid violence, voting is staggered over seven days. Results from a total of five state elections are to be announced on March 6. REUTERS/Parivartan Sharma (INDIA - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS) 

A Hindu holyman holds up his voter identity card for the photographer after casting his vote at a polling station during the second phase of state assembly elections in Gorakhpur, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh February 11, 2012. Uttar Pradesh, with 200 million people, is an unruly state that stretches southeast from New Delhi, divided along its length by the Ganges River. To avoid violence, voting is staggered over seven days. Results from a total of five state elections are to be announced on March 6. REUTERS/Jitendra Prakash (INDIA - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS) 

Voters display their voter identity cards as they wait for their turn to cast their ballots at a polling station during the second phase of state assembly elections, in Gorakhpur in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh February 11, 2012. Uttar Pradesh, with 200 million people, stretches southeast from New Delhi, divided along its length by the Ganges River. To avoid violence, voting is staggered over seven days. Results from a total of five state elections are to be announced on March 6. REUTERS/Jitendra Prakash (INDIA - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS) 

A Hindu holy man holds his voter identity card as he walks towards a polling station to cast his vote during the state assembly election in Ayodhya, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh February 8, 2012. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi (INDIA - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS) 

An electoral worker checks the identity of a veiled woman, who arrived at a polling station to cast her vote, during a second round of voting in parliamentary elections, at a village in Beheira, 135 km (83 miles) north of Cairo, December 14, 2011. Egyptians voted on Wednesday in the second round of a parliamentary election, part of a lengthy transition to civilian rule after generals took charge following Hosni Mubarak's removal from office in February. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh (EGYPT - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS) 

An electoral worker checks the identity of a veiled woman who arrived at a polling station to cast her vote during a second round of voting in parliamentary elections at a village in Beheira, 135 km (83 miles) north of Cairo, December 14, 2011. Egyptians voted on Wednesday in the second round of a parliamentary election, part of a lengthy transition to civilian rule after generals took charge following Hosni Mubarak's removal from office in February. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh (EGYPT - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

A man dips his finger in ink after casting a vote at a polling station during a parliamentary election in Cairo November 28, 2011. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh (EGYPT - Tags: ELECTIONS POLITICS) 

A Thai soldier shows his identity card before voting in a polling station in Bangkok July 3, 2011.Thailand headed to the polls on Sunday in an election that will test whether one of Asia's most promising nations can end a six-year crisis marked by protests, military crackdowns and widening gap between rich and poor. REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang (THAILAND - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS) 

South Sudanese men hold voting registration cards as they wait in the line to vote at a polling station during the referendum in Juba, south Sudan January 9, 2011.
REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic (SUDAN - Tags: ELECTIONS POLITICS IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

A veiled woman shows her face to a policewoman to verify her identity before casting her ballot at a polling station in Amman November 9, 2010. Jordanians voted on Tuesday in parliamentary elections boycotted by the influential Muslim Brotherhood and liberal groups in protest at an election law they say erodes democracy. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed (JORDAN - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

Men hold up their identification cards for local television cameras covering a polling station in Karachi October 17, 2010. Pakistanis voted in a by-election in Karachi on Sunday, after shooting attacks killed at least 22 people in the country's commercial hub, where ethnic and political violence has raised fears of instability. Pre-election bloodshed on Saturday night killed at least 22 people in Karachi, police said. Police have boosted security at polling stations in the by-election for a seat in the provincial assembly. REUTERS/Athar Hussain (PAKISTAN - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

Workers register voters for the upcoming Haitian national elections at an impromptu station consisting of a plastic table and chairs set up outside of a tent camp near the presidential palace in Port-au-Prince October 15, 2010. The team says they are averaging between 70 and 100 registrants per day. REUTERS/Allison Shelley (HAITI - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS) 

A Rwandan voter holds her identification card during general elections in the capital Kigali, August 9, 2010. Rwandans lined up before dawn to vote in the central African nation's second presidential election since the 1994 genocide and incumbent Paul Kagame was poised to win in a landslide. REUTERS/James Akena (RWANDA - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS) 

Jose Delgado Corrales,109, holds his identity document at a polling station during the presidential elections in San Jose February 7, 2010. According to the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, Corrales is the oldest among Costa Rica's 2.8 million registered voters, electing a new president on Sunday. REUTERS/Carlos Leon (COSTA RICA - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS) 

An Afghan woman dips his finger in ink as she holds her identity card at a polling station in Herat, western Afghanistan August 20, 2009. REUTERS/Raheb Homavandi (AFGHANISTAN POLITICS ELECTIONS) 

An Afghan woman shows her identity card after casting her vote at a polling centre in Herat, western Afghanistan August 20, 2009. REUTERS/Raheb Homavandi (AFGHANISTAN POLITICS ELECTIONS IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

A man holding his identification documents waits to cast his vote at a polling station in the village of Zabolmahalleh near Bandar Turkmen seaport city on the southeastern coast of the Caspian Sea, 410 km (256 miles) northeast of Tehran, June 12, 2009. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl (IRAN POLITICS ELECTIONS IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

A government employee inspects a voter's identity card at a polling station in Sidon, southern Lebanon June 7, 2009. Lebanese crowded peacefully to the polls on Sunday in a high-stakes parliamentary election that pits Hezbollah and its allies, backed by Syria and Iran, against an anti-Syrian bloc that has U.S. and Saudi support. REUTERS/Ali Hashisho (LEBANON POLITICS ELECTIONS) 

A woman holds up her Kuwaiti identity card with the 2009 election stamp imprint (oval stamp) which indicates that she has voted in this year's parliamentary elections, in Rumaithiya May 16, 2009. Kuwaitis are voting in a parliamentary election on Saturday, two months after the ruler of the world's fourth largest oil exporter dissolved the parliament to end a long-running dispute with the government. Voters are casting their ballots in their third election since 2006 with early turnout slow and few confident that the polls will end a tussle between parliament and cabinet that has delayed economic reforms. REUTERS/Stephanie McGehee (KUWAIT POLITICS ELECTIONS) 

A leper holds her voter's identity card as she waits for her turn to cast her ballot at a polling station in Mahanadi Vihar, in India's eastern Orissa state, during the second phase of the country's general election April 23, 2009. REUTERS/Jayanta Shaw (INDIA ELECTIONS POLITICS) 

Women show their voter identity cards as they wait to caste their ballot outside a polling booth in the northern Indian city of Gorakhpur April 16, 2009. With Maoist insurgents stepping up attacks, Indians began voting in a month-long general election on Thursday with signs an unstable coalition may emerge in the middle of an economic slowdown. REUTERS/Jitendra Prakash (INDIA POLITICS ELECTIONS) 

A woman holds her voter ID card as she stands outside a booth to caste her vote at polling station in Varanasi in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh April 16, 2009. Indians voted in the first stage of a staggered general election on Thursday just as the economy is hit by a slowdown and with polls showing the main national parties may struggle to form a stable coalition. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi (INDIA POLITICS ELECTIONS) 

A voter shows her voter identity card as she waits for her turn to cast her ballot at a polling station, during the state assembly election, in the western Indian city of Bikaner December 4, 2008. Voters in Rajasthan are casting their ballot today for its 200 assembly seats. REUTERS/Vinay Joshi (INDIA) 

A voter displays her voter identity card as others wait for their turn to cast their ballot during an assembly election at a polling booth in Aizawl, capital of India's northeastern state of Mizoram, December 2, 2008. Polling is being held across Aizawl on Tuesday for Mizoram's 40 assembly seats. REUTERS/Jayanta Dey (INDIA) 

Reang refugees of India's northeastern state of Mizoram display their voter identity cards as they stand in a queue outside a polling booth in Naishing Para area November 28, 2008. Altogether 8,061 Reang refugees from among the 35,000 displaced people belonging to the community, sheltered in camps of Tripura and in Mizoram, for more than 10 years will cast their vote on Friday and Saturday for Mizoram's 40 assembly seats. REUTERS/Jayanta Dey (INDIA) 

Voters show their voter identity cards as they wait for their turn to cast their ballot during the Madhya Pradesh state assembly election, at a polling booth in Bhopal November 27, 2008. REUTERS/Raj Patidar (INDIA) 

An Afghan woman poses with her newly made voter registration card in Parwan province, north of Kabul October 6, 2008. Afghanistan began registering voters on Monday for elections due next year that will test support for President Hamid Karzai and democracy itself which is threatened by virulent Taliban insurgency in which thousands have died. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood (AFGHANISTAN) 

Ibrahim Sessay displays his inked finger and voter ID card during local councillor elections, held for the second time since 1972, at a polling station in Freetown on July 5, 2008. More than 2.7 million voters were eligible to go to polls following a campaign period marred by a series of small local riots. REUTERS/Katrina Manson (SIERRA LEONE) 

Muslim women hold their voter's identity card while waiting to cast their votes at a polling booth during the first phase of the state elections of the southern Indian state of Karnataka in Bangalore May 10, 2008. REUTERS/Arko Datta (INDIA) 

A Muslim woman holds her voter's identity card while waiting to cast her vote at a polling booth during the first phase of the state elections of the southern Indian state of Karnataka in Bangalore May 10, 2008. REUTERS/Arko Datta (INDIA)