Photo Voter Makes a Comeback

Ah, it seems like only yesterday that two Democratic State Senators filibustered the village law bill (I still have no idea what that bill is about) while the hours clicked slowly toward the end of session. While they chatted with each other on the floor about progressively less relevant topics, thousands of phone calls from around the state were coming into the offices of the State Senators urging them to oppose a resolution to require a state-issued photo ID to vote.

There’s still disagreement over whether Victor and Chris were actually opposed to the repeal of the village law or whether they were trying to stall to prevent passage of Photo Voter, but it certainly gave voting rights advocates the time they needed to kill the resolution.

Well, no surprise, Photo Voter is back. Representative Stanley Cox presented the resolution in the House Elections Committee on Tuesday morning.

His star witness was the attorney for the Republican Party. You see, for Republicans, this is a partisan issue. They want to ensure that every Republican voter gets their vote counted but anyone who has felt the pain of their 2005 Medicaid cuts must be disenfranchised.