Halloween Day has arrived, but it's also the last day for early voting in Texas.

The Lone Star State's early voting period included controversy with the voter identification laws, which required eligible voters to present photo identification moments before casting their vote. Based on an University of Texas (UT) and Texas Tribune poll, two-thirds of registered voters participating in the survey favored the voter ID law.

With 67 percent, most Texans who took the poll had a "very favorable" view of the voting law while 22 percent opposed it. Eleven percent of respondents were unsure of the law.

Opinion on whether the voter ID law affects voter turnout was mixed, but most, with 43 percent, said it has "no effect" on turnout. Narrowly behind, however, were 38 percent of respondents stating the voter ID law decreases turnout. Ten percent of registered Texan voters said they don't know if it'll affect turnout, but 8 percent believed it might increase it.

"Voter ID is now seen completely through a partisan lens," said UT at Austin's head of Texas Politics Project and polling co-director Jim Henson. "People then match their expectation of the facts to their predispositions."

Along political party ideology, a majority of Republicans and independents agree with the law with 85 percent and 51 percent, respectively. Democrats who support the voter ID law was at 19 percent.

Opponents of the state's voter ID law claimed 600,000 people could be affected by the new requirements. The case went to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ultimately allowed Texas to enact the voter ID laws. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was one of the judges who dissented with the law. She said the law could represent the "greatest threat of public confidence in elections" by enforcing a "purposefully discriminatory law" that risks denying "hundreds of thousands" of Americans the right to vote.

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The midterm elections come as Texas received a record amount of registered voters with 14.025 million as of Oct. 16. Voters who vote by mail, "in almost every circumstance," do not need photo ID to vote.

Groups have been putting in the effort to provide voters information about the voter ID laws ahead of voting. Election Protection Coalition, a nonpartisan organization aimed to protect voters, launched a radio advertisement campaign informing Texans about their voting rights and to clarify misinformation about the voter ID requirements. The advertisements will air in English and Spanish in 60 second and 30 second spots.

"Recent changes by state courts and the Supreme Court have left voters in Texas confused and without key protections once afforded by the Voting Rights Act," said Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law President and Executive Director Barbara Arnwine, who also serves as one of the members of the Election Protection Coalition. "The new Voter ID requirement will potentially disenfranchise more than 600,000 registered Texas voters who do not have the required photo ID, and most of the affected voters are African American, Latino and low-income."

According to Texas Secretary of State Nandita Berry, seven forms of photo ID are valid to vote, which include a Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) issued driver's license, Personal Identification Card, Concealed Handgun License and Election Identification Certificate. The other three forms of identification is a U.S. passport, citizenship certificate and military ID card, which all require the person's photograph. Berry's office noted that with the exception of the U.S. citizenship certificate, the other forms of photo ID can be current or expired no more than 60 days.

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