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SB 483 – Voter Identification

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Senate Bill 0483 requiring Hoosiers to produce state or federally issued photo ID before being permitted to exercise their right to vote passed Second Reading in the House. The House Republicans voted against:

  • a provision that would have allowed a voter, in lieu of a photo ID, to sign an affidavit which would subject them to perjury prosecution if they were voting fraudulently and would have subjected absentee voters to the same ID reqirements if they were casting their vote in front of an absentee voter board or voting absentee at the Clerk’s office.
  • a provision that would have required a precinct election board who prevented a Hoosier from exercising their right to vote for failure to produce identification to provide the voter with information advising the voter of 1) the permissible forms of identification; 2) the requirements for having the provisional ballot counted; 3) contact information for the circuit court clerk, the voter’s senator and representative, the toll-free number staffed by the election division, and the electiond division’s web-site.
  • a provision requiring the secretary of state, before each election, to send notice of the identification requirements for voting to each person who registered to vote after the most recent primary or general election.

    One gets the idea that they might not be unhappy with a situation like Ohio’s 2004 election where lots of voters got held up in line, got turned away, and folks didn’t have a real clear idea of how to make things right. Both parties might have an interest in making sure their constituents are better informed and more likely to vote absentee than the constituents of the other party.

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