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Committee approves publishing certified petition signers; strips voter‑ID numbers after clerk concerns
Summary
House Bill 374 would require certified petition signatures to be published on the lieutenant governor's website for 90 days; the committee adopted an amendment removing voter‑identification numbers and advanced the bill 10–2.
Representative Kohler told the Government Operations Committee on Feb. 14 that House Bill 374 is intended to increase transparency by requiring the lieutenant governor to publish the names of people who signed certain certified petitions (including primary‑election signature filings) on the lieutenant governor's website for 90 days after certification.
Committee members questioned whether publishing a voter‑identification number alongside a signer’s name could…
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