Posted on 06/22/2011 8:45:35 AM PDT by Uncledave
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WTVN) -- Senate Republicans have slipped a provision that required Ohio voters to present a photo ID at the polls into a package of election reforms. Backers say it will help prevent voter fraud, but opponents say it's nothing more than a poll tax.
Ohio's election chief says he opposes the changes. Secretary of State Jon Husted says voters need to have other options. He says they must be allowed to provide their nine-digit social security numbers in place of photo IDs.
A Republican-led Senate committee added the ID requirement to the bill Tuesday, despite Democratic objections that the provision would lead to voter suppression. The Ohio League of Women Voters' Peg Rosenfield believes it will force more people to cast ballots by mail. She points out the only examples of fraud have been mail fraud.
The House and Senate have passed separate bills that would make a variety of changes to state elections. The photo ID requirement comes as the chambers are working out the differences in their proposals.
The Senate's government oversight committee planned to vote on the measure Wednesday.
The Associated Press contributed to this story
Let me guess...it was an “APPOINTED” judge that made the ruling right...
They sent me a renewal form fifteen years after I had left Ohio. Apparently I was registered for all that time, and maybe even voted for all I know.
How they knew to send it to me in Pennsylvania I am still trying to figure out.
Ping!
Same here. I always have to show an ID. Maybe it isn’t a state law, but, varies from county to county?
The DEMS in this state are frothing over everything the legislature is doing here in OH. Every day, they are complaining and whining about something. Its pure gold to watch their heads explode over everything.
Also sounds like a recipe for identity theft. The Sec of State is afraid of his own shadow.
Yes. I get emails from the Ohio Democrat Party almost daily and they are all apocalyptic and hysterical.
How about this... when it comes time for the vote to be taken, have some folks who aren’t members of the chamber come onto the floor and attempt to vote (in favor of the photo ID requirement).
We’ll then see how quickly the Democrats change their tune about restricting things to eligible voters only.
I wish we would use the election system that Mexico uses. It is a high security system developed by IBM.
Mexico is well aware of how easy it is to steal elections in the United States (paging Loretta Sanchez) and they intend to stay on the winning side of voter fraud, not the receiving end.
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