* From the Southern Illinoisan…

Nearly one in ten Illinois voters don’t have a photo ID, according to the latest poll results from the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute.

Roughly 9.4 percent of registered voters asked in the poll said they don’t have “a current, unexpired Illinois-issued ID” that includes a photo, the institute, housed at SIU Carbondale, found in its recent statewide poll.

The institute released the findings Wednesday in light of a Pennsylvania judge putting a stop Tuesday to that state’s new and controversial voter ID law. Many states require people show a photo ID at the poll.

It’s aimed at preventing fraud, but in this election cycle critics have complained the rules keep away poor and minority voters, which tend to be the people without a current photo ID.

* The paper left out some information, however. From the Institute’s press release…

Subgroup responses in the Simon Poll show that instances of voters without IDs are higher in groups that tend to vote Democratic.

Registered voters with a high school education or less were more likely than average to be without ID (14.6 percent), as were African Americans (16.2 percent), voters under 35 (13.4 percent) and those with household incomes below $50,000 (14.0 percent).

According to the crosstabs, 18.2 percent of Latinos say they have no state-issued photo identification card.

…Adding… Per a commenter’s request, the poll found that 7.2 percent of whites said they had no state ID card.

9.6 percent of Chicagoans, 9.1 percent of suburbanites and 9.6 percent of downstaters say they have no state-issued identification. 10.5 percent of Democrats, 11.3 percent of independents and 7.7 percent of Republicans say they don’t have a state ID. Just 3.6 percent of people making over $100,000 a year have no official ID card.

* More from the Institute…

Illinois’ number is slightly less than the national statistic provided by the Brennan Center for Justice, which estimates that as “many as 10 percent of eligible voters” do not currently have or will be able to get proper identification in order to vote. Illinois is in line with estimates that show Pennsylvania with 9 percent estimates of eligible voters without a picture ID. The Simon Poll’s estimate of 9 percent is higher than a recent 7 percent estimate in New Hampshire and a 6.7 percent estimate in Minnesota.

…Adding… Here’s how the question was asked…

Do you have a current, unexpired Illinois-issued ID with your picture on it, like a driver’s license?