Thanks, Jill: Michigan House passes voter-ID bill after vote-fraud hyperbole

[mystery-ak]

Thanks, Jill: Michigan House passes voter-ID bill after vote-fraud hyperbole
posted at 2:41 pm on December 8, 2016 by Ed Morrissey

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Be careful what you wish for … you just might get it. Jill Stein didn’t get the recount she wanted in Michigan, but she did get the state to take vote-integrity issues seriously. Meeting in its lame-duck session, the state House of Representatives passed a tough voter-ID bill that includes $3 million for funding of free state identification and birth certificates after over 18,000 voters cast ballots without identification in the presidential election:

    Michigan’s Republican-led House on Wednesday night approved a strict voter identification proposal over strenuous objections from Democrats who argued the plan could disenfranchise properly registered voters.

    Michigan voters without photo identification could still cast a provisional ballot under the controversial legislation, but they would have to bring an ID to their local clerk’s office within 10 days of an election in order for their vote to count.

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[Frank Cannon]

Shrill Slime. The gift that keeps on giving.

[Cripplecreek]

The only real change I see is free ID and birth certificates. We're still a "must ask" state as we have been for a while. The poll workers must ask for the ID but the voter doesn't have to show it.

In fact we've been far tougher than this in recent years but the courts keep slapping us around. For instance, a few years ago we had one election cycle where we had to show ID and check a box attesting that we are citizens of the USA.

[Free Vulcan]

This is the kind of thing the GOP needs to do all the time.