Voter intimidation is still a Buckeye Republican electoral tool.
Columbus – Every Ohio voter would have to present identification at the polls on Election Day under sweeping election-law revisions debuting in the Ohio Senate today.
The voter-ID requirement is among several significant changes Senate Republicans propose to H.B. 3, which has already cleared the GOP-led Ohio House. The legislature is responding to issues that arose in the 2004 presidential election.
Sen. Kevin Coughlin, the Cuyahoga Falls Republican sponsor, said the bill contains reasonable new rules that will assure accuracy and integrity in Ohio elections.
“I think that we’ve gotten into a world where those who would commit fraud have gotten a lot more sophisticated, and simply requiring that a signature sort of match is really an inadequate way to ensure ballot security,” he said.
I’m waiting for legislation that will magically train the senior citizens who help run the polls into expert ID checkers. What a friggin waste of time.