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House approves voter identification requirement with judge-recognition backstop
Summary
House Bill 258, which changes in-person voting rules to require identification, passed the House after amendments clarifying that personal recognition by the election judge counts as identification and permitting a signed attestation for those without ID.
Representative Rebecca Lockhart introduced House Bill 258 to require voters to present identification when voting in person, changing the state standard from discretionary ('may require') to mandatory ('shall require') in statute. She told the House that one permitted form of identification would be recognition by the election judge and that the bill did not alter absentee-voter procedures.
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