“Voter ID, FOIA legislation fall off Michigan’s lame duck agenda”

MLive:

House-passed changes to voter ID and FOIA laws will be left on the cutting room floor this lame-duck session, a spokesperson for Senate Majority Leader Arlan Meekhof, R-West Olive, confirmed.

The House last week passed fast-moving bills that would have tightened the state’s voting ID requirements. Currently voters who are registered but do not have a voter ID can fill out an affidavit attesting to their identity and then vote.

House Bills 6066 proposed letting those voters vote with a provisional ballot. That ballot would only be counted if the voter returned to their clerk’s office within 10 days to show either a photo ID or present evidence they are either indigent and can’t afford an ID or have a religious objection to having their photo taken.

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