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Posted on 06/15/2026 11:10:27 AM PDT by John Semmens
The Honest Elections Project Action released poll results indicating that 86% of Ohio's voters think voter IDs should be required to cast a ballot at the polls. The breakdown by Party showed that 99% of Republicans, 90% of Independents and 69% of Democrats favor this requirement. The Ohio State Senate voted 22-9 to send a constitutional amendment ballot question to voters. If the state House also approves, this amendment will appear on the November ballot. Over seventy percent of poll respondents say they will vote for this amendment.
The two leading candidates for the Ohio US Senate seat disagree on whether this amendment is needed. Incumbent Sen. Jon Husted (R) favors the measure, "election integrity is essential for a democratic republic. If we permit persons not eligible to vote cast ballots we won't have an accurate accounting of who the legitimate electorate wants to represent them in governing the nation."
Former Senator Sherrod Brown (D) questioned the need for requiring voter ID, saying "voting is a human right. No one should be denied this right merely because he or she hasn't got an official ID. Republican demands that voting should be restricted to citizens with appropriate papers sounds like fascism to me. If folks make the effort to show up at the polls or mail in a ballot we should just count it. More people will vote. We'll have a bigger sample of what the people want from their government."
In related news, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Ak), was one of four Republican senators--the others were Susan Collins (Me), Mitch McConnell (Ky), and Thom Tills (NC)--to join with all 47 Democrats to vote down the federal SAVE Act 51-49. The SAVE Act would require proof of citizenship for a voter to be allowed to cast a ballot. Murkowski explained her position, saying "the SAVE Act would make voting too complicated. It's not like we are handing out large sums of money for which we need extensive identification verification procedures. Each ballot represents one of millions cast for a particular candidate. The chances that an ineligible vote will decide the outcome of any given election are infinitesimally small. I say, let's just count all the ballots and be done with it."
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But you already need an ID to vote in Ohio, don’t you?
“voting is a human right. No one should be denied this right”-Sherron Brown. A person with this level of ignorance should not be allowed in the Senate.
Voting is a PRIVILEGE, not a RIGHT, just as being born in the US is a PRIVILEGE and immigrating to the US is a PRIVILEGE and registering to vote at age 18 is a PRIVILEGE.
Murkowski explained her position, saying “the SAVE Act would make voting too complicated. Just WOW. From a Senator with ranked choice voting. It takes 2 seconds to show my id in Indiana each time I vote.
Unreal. These entrenched reps/Senators need to GO!!!
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